Swiss Climate Protection Initiative SCPI
With the Swiss Climate Protection Initiative SCPI, SENS International is building recycling plants for CFC-containing cooling appliances in emerging markets. The projects supported must trigger ecological, social, economic and technological development impetuses in the host country and be certified in accordance with the «Swiss Charter – Climate Protection by Recycling», whose patron is SENS International.
SENS International is launching a pioneering project in the form of the Swiss Climate Protection Initiative. It is the first organisation in the world to concentrate on sustainable climate protection projects, which aim at the extraction and complete destruction of the ozone-depleting greenhouse gases CFCs. The three-phase process applied enables CFCs to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner and raw materials to be recovered at the same time.
Because CFCs are not covered by the Kyoto Protocol, they are being forgotten. But these are particularly dangerous greenhouse gases. They not only damage the ozone layer but contribute to climate change. Therefore, it is particularly important for companies to tackle the problem of CFCs on a voluntary basis.
The Swiss Charter specifies the framework conditions for this area of climate protection, which up to now has gone largely unheeded. The methodologies submitted under the Swiss Charter are undergoing double validation by independent experts, and the emission reductions are verified. The climate certificates generated are issued by a registry as Swiss Charter Units.
The pioneering project of the Swiss Climate Protection Initiative is being launched in Brazil. Together with its project partner Fox & Earth Industries AG and the subsidiary Indústria Fox, SENS International is building the first environmentally sound recycling plant for cooling appliances in South America. Cabreúva in the federal state of São Paulo has been chosen as the location for the pioneering plant. With its highly concentrated population agglomerations, Brazil is suitable for this project not only because of the favourable logistics framework conditions, but also because of its political environment.