ITC is now a 'Carbon Positive Corporation'

ITC’s objective of creating a positive environmental footprint in the context of the international concern on ‘Global Warming’ has found expression in:

• Energy Conservation, Audit and Benchmarking to achieve the lowest specific energy consumption (energy required per unit of production)
• Use of environmentally safe fuels & renewable sources of energy
• Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) sequestration through farm & social forestry initiatives
• Identifying and implementing ‘certifiable CO₂ reduction’ projects

Significant decrease in Specific Energy consumption

The Bhadrachalam Paperboards unit and the Cigarette factories at Saharanpur and Bengaluru achieved significant reduction in specific energy consumption (energy requirement per unit of production) in 2005-06.

The Bhadrachalam unit alone accounts for as much as 67.4% of ITC’s total energy requirements. A number of energy conservation measures has resulted in a 10.7% reduction in the Bhadrachalam mill’s specific energy consumption.

This reduction is very significant in view of the Bhadrachalam mill already having been declared one of the most energy efficient paper/paperboard mills in India by the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, in its Green Rating Report, 2004.

The Saharanpur Cigarette factory registered a 9.2% reduction in specific energy consumption over the last year. ITC’s largest Cigarette factory in Bengaluru also achieved a 1.2% reduction over the same period.