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ANNUAL REVIEW & SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
Investindustrial promoted the creation of a corporate foundation
within
PortAventura
)
to support differently–abled children and young adults
to achieve a better quality of living. Each year PortAventura
donates 0.7% of its net profits to the foundation. PortAventura
operates in all the facilities that it manages with maximum
respect for the environment and produces an environmental
report of its activities on a yearly basis in addition to a corporate
responsibility report.
In December 2014, PortAventura Foundation signed an
agreement with the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu of Barcelona
for a donation of
€
3 million to support the establishment of
the new UCI pediatric pavilion. The new division is expected
to be completed in 2016 and will increase the size of
pediatric area by few times.
Significant
commitment
from portfolio companies
Investindustrial, a carbonneutral
®
company
Portfolio companies are strongly committed to improving their
environmental, social and governance footprint and focus
intensely on developing sustainable long-term growth plans.
Investindustrial places significant importance on reducing
its carbon footprint and has worked with the CarbonNeutral
Company, a world leading provider of carbon reduction solutions,
to measure its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions footprint.
In recent years, the Group has supported several projects to
offset the emissions and achieve carbon neutrality. The last two
projects supported were in Turkey (Aydin - Geothermal Energy
and Ankara - Landfill Gas to Energy). In addition Investindustrial
has undertaken a series of actions to reduce its overall emissions
per employee, which were reduced by 17% in 2014.
From left: Arturo Mas-Sardá (Chairman of PortAventura), Manel del Castillo
(General Manager of the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu) and Ramon Marsal
(Chairman of PortAventura Foundation) during the signing of the agreement
for the new pediatric division
In May 2014 some young people and adults with disabilities or
congenital or acquired diseases and assisted by the Fondazione
Don Gnocchi in Milan, had the opportunity to visit the Italian
Headquarters of
Avincis
in Colico (Lecco) in order to show
the services offered. This is an example of how our portfolio
companies do their best to stay close to differently abled people
in order to offer opportunities to improve their quality of living.
Other companies are working actively to improve their ESG
footprint. Aston Martin is planning to improve its environmental
performance by reducing 5% energy usage on years; Euskaltel
has defined a plan to reduce GHG emissions including actions to
reduce fuel consumption and power consumption in offices and
in the network. In 2014 Perfume Holding achieved significant
results in improving its efficient use of resources by reducing by
12% both the consumption of methane and the CO2 emissions
per finished product; in addition Perfume holding increased by
29% the number of hours dedicated to Environmental training.
Avincis team with members of the Fondazione Don Gnocchi during
a visit at the Avincis italian headquarters in Colico (Lecco)
