Chilean seafood producer Camanchaca has signed a 100-percent renewable energy deal with utility firm Colbun.
Under the seven-year contract, energy sources deployed by Colbun will come from completely renewable sources.
Camanchaca said it will reduce C02 emissions per year by 15,000 metric tons as part of a company plan to achieve carbon neutrality, the equivalent to pulling around 26,000 cars off the roads or planting 200,000 trees for the duration of the contract.
The company's Salmones Camanchaca salmon farming division has already set a goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2025.
“This agreement shows that we can move forward in producing food from the sea sustainably, and do so while containing costs; sustainability is not a matter of cost, but of wills and convictions,” Camanchaca General Manager Ricardo Garcia Holz said.
