Avaliação de práticas de sustentabilidade das empresas que compõem a associação das empresas do complexo industrial e portuário do Pecém-AECIPP

Abstract

Brazilian ports are extremely important for the economy, operating between production systems and consumption centers. The Pecém Industrial and Port Complex has a challenge that goes beyond managing to maintain its environmental licensing, which is to implement an environmental management system that solves the problems generated, since it recognizes its nature as a polluter pays and only from practices of sustainability with positive interfaces between society and companies, which offset the negative impacts, is that decision makers will continue to support port operations. Currently, the Environment Forum of the Association of Companies of the Pecém Port Industrial Complex stores data on the complex that relate to the environment, promoting discussions on environmental management and developing sustainable strategies that are beneficial to stakeholders. However, there is no evaluation method to find out how member companies are doing in adopting sustainability practices, in order to seek sustainable development in Porto do Pécem. This research aims to evaluate the sustainability practices of AECIPP member companies, as well as the dissemination of these practices to interested parties, to study the behavior by economic activity branches. The adopted research is classified as exploratory-descriptive with a qualitative approach, the population is composed of the 31 member companies of AECIPP. For data collection, secondary documentary research was used. The data collection instrument was a checklist composed of six questions that assess the adoption and disclosure or not of companies' sustainability practices. In order to assess the performance of each company in relation to its sustainability practices, the sum of the ratings attributed to the items in the checklist was carried out and the characterization of this behavior was carried out according to the score obtained. With the results obtained there is an indication that 8 companies have an excellent performance in relation to the adoption of sustainability practices and their dissemination, the others already show a trend of change, a fact that must be mentioned is that the corporate policies of these companies that often representing their intentions before society, they begin to encompass terms that refer to developing in a sustainable way