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GREENER OPERATIONS...OUR ENDEAVOUR
Today we all are witnessing environmental and development issues at loggerheads in many parts of the world. We at Ambuja Cement have therefore adopted sustainability as the way of doing business and give due regard to the environment, energy management, efficiency enhancement, safety and community concerns. We invest in environment protection measures with a view to leave no or minimal traces of our operations.
 
We have successfully installed Continuous Emission Monitoring Systems (CEMS) at all our nine kilns & have also installed Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Systems (CAAQMS) at all the plants for proper monitoring of all vital pollution parameters on real time basis. The Company ensured availability of the CEMS above 95% at all the nine kilns round the year.

Policy and Goals

We believe the vision of sustainable development and environment conservation can be achieved more effectively through a structured and systematic approach. ACL is empowered by the overarching ‘Corporate Environment Policy’ along with unit specific policies. The corporate policy is in conformance with the Ministry of Environment and Forests guidelines. In addition, we also have various specific policies like Corporate Sustainability Policy, Climate Change Mitigation Policy and Green Procurement Policy which mention Company’s approach on Sustainable Development, Climate Change Mitigation and Greening of Supply Chain. All our manufacturing locations have environment team, equipped with laboratory facilities to enable the complete monitoring of stack emissions, ambient air quality, noise level and water quality. These teams are also responsible for implementing various environment initiatives at the units.

Monitoring and Management
A key element of ACL’s approach to environmental management is the Company's environmental assessment system. It has implemented Holcim’s Plant Environmental Profile (PEP) system for the annual monitoring of a plant’s environment performance. In addition, Corporate requirements including CO2 Emissions Reporting Protocol, AFR Directive, Asbestos Directive, PCB Directive, Quarry Rehabilitation Directive, Water Directive, Biodiversity Directive and Environment Monitoring and Reporting (EMR) Protocol, were also followed.		 PEP System The Plant Environment Profile (PEP) is the Company's internal annual environment performance assessment system. The assessment is based on detailed and standardized Online Questionnaire, which covers key elements of ISO 14001 along with key performance indicators covering a wide range of topics - including atmospheric emissions, energy and material consumption, water, and waste and quarry management. At the end of the assessment, Environment Performance Index Score is calculated which is used for rating plants internally, as well as to benchmark against the Group’s other operating plants globally.

Most of our plants have done well in the Holcim Plant Environment Profile (PEP) annual assessment 2013. While the Company average exceeded the Holcim average score in the integrated units, four of them individually scored above the Holcim average. Both at individual & Company level, all the Grinding Units have scored above the Holcim average PEP score.

Environment Meet 2013
Environment Meet is an annual event in which ACL Environment managers share knowledge and experience. Two day Annual Environment Meet program was organized by the Corporate Environment & Sustainability team at Delhi. It was attended by Business Head (North) including 20 environmental managers from all plants along with personnel from ACF and Geocycle. First day was devoted for internal discussion on the stock taking of initiatives and issues of units. While on second day, a seminar on “Corporate Sustainability” was organized which witnessed presence of eminent experts, experts and consultants from environment and sustainability arena. They motivated and enlightened all the participants by sharing their rich experience.