Sustentabilidade Ambiental: Um Estudo no Setor de Energia Elétrica da Região Norte e Nordeste do Brasil

Abstract

Over the past few years, concern and demands with environmental issues, companies from all sectors of the economy, as well as their role and the way they carry out their activities. It could not be different with the electricity sector, which is highlighted due to its strategic substance and because it is a public service, even under concession, and should therefore be easier to use in its actions, always aiming at the continuity of the Service Well-being of the population. Aware of this condition of ANEEL, through Resolution n. 444, of 2001, established that all such concessions are mandatorily prepared the Annual Social and Environmental Responsibility Report, in order to show a society as good practices and environmental actions of companies in the energy sector. In this context, the study in question seeks to identify the level of environmental information through electricity distribution companies in the north and northeast of Brazil through the information disclosed in their knowledge of sustainability. We analyzed the sustainability reporting levels of 15 companies in the energy sector based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The study was based on a qualitative approach, with research searching for a type of description and a use of bibliographic and documentary procedure. A quantification of the evidence was developed based on the information contained in the sustainability statements of companies disclosed in the period from 2013 to 2015. The result of the study indicates that there is strong evidence that as companies evidence environmental issues only by a market obligation to Parties Concerned, and care less than they give in their reports. This indicates a lack of commitment to continuous improvement and improvement of environmental performance. This and most of its findings are basically described in the energy distributors analyzed, to disclose only basic and essential indicators, many of them contained without a fixed supplement. GRI for energy companies, and ignore the other indicators, which show important information for society and interested parties.