Environmental Commitment

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Safeguarding the air is a high priority for Smurfit-Stone. Responding proactively to concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, Smurfit-Stone joined the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the “world’s first and North America’s only voluntary, legally-binding, rules-based greenhouse gas emission reduction and trading system.” By joining CCX, Smurfit-Stone has made a commitment to measure, report, and reduce GHG emissions, establish an emission reduction schedule, and participate in an annual emissions audit. We have already met Phase I of our CCX obligation and have reduced GHG emissions by 4% over the baseline years. By 2010, we will have met our obligation to reduce GHG by 6% from a 1999-2001 baseline. In fact, since 1995, we have reduced GHG by nearly 24%, cut particulate matter releases by 47%, and reduced fossil fuel use by 20%.

Smurfit-Stone also puts its money where its mouth is. Between 2000 and 2006, the company invested over $400 million just to comply with a set of air regulations known as the Cluster Rule.