Company: SUZ
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-020368
Chunk: 104

Company: Suzano S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 104
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 are also labeled in several of our products and our clients’ products. We reinforce our commitment to establish plantations exclusively in areas previously anthropized by other uses whose conversion has not occurred under our responsibility, committing to a zero-deforestation policy.

Our environmental commitments are supported and monitored by relevant organizations and coalitions such as the UN Global Compact, Climate, Forest and Agriculture Brazilian Coalition, the Alliance for the restoration of the Amazon and One Trillion Trees (1t. org), among others. We also have a strong commitment to community service and participate in and fund a variety of projects, including projects supported byInstituto Ecofuturo, a non-governmental organization that we have created and sponsor, whose purpose is to generate and share knowledge and practices that contribute to creating a culture of sustainability.

Water

We have a goal of reducing specific water withdrawal in our industrial units by 15% by 2030, linked to SDG 6. Considering the expected curve until 2030, we defined each mill’s internal annual and monthly targets and monitor monthly each mill’s internal targets, mapped out best practices, replaced equipment to enhance water efficiency and used recovered water in machines. To reinforce the topic’s governance priority, we defined targets linked to variable remuneration to the COO, Industrial Officers and lower positions. In 2024, we already achieved 73% of the target set out for 2030.

Solid Waste and Wastewater

The treatment of effluents in all industrial units is carried out in our own Effluent Treatment Plants and includes primary (physical) and secondary (biological) treatment. The biological sludge generated at the effluent treatment plants has been treated in different eco-efficient ways. In addition to complying with the applicable rules on solid waste, our mills have a waste management plan and operational procedures. Waste management includes daily monitoring and forums focused on reducing solid waste generation, increased recycling and internal reuse and reduction of shipment to landfills. The mills also receive internal and external audits.

In 2020, we announced an ambitious goal to reduce the industrial waste sent to landfills by 70% by 2030. In 2024, our units in Limeira, Jacareí, Rio Verde and Mogi das Cruzes continued to maintain their performance of not sending waste to landfills. One of the major highlights of the year was the consolidation of the composting project at the Mucuri/BA unit, which reduced the unit's indicator by almost 10%.

Biodiversity

We are