Global warming, caused principally by the large-scale emissions of industrial gases such as carbon dioxide (CO₂), is possibly the greatest threat that mankind has ever faced, because it impacts the very inhabitability of Planet Earth.

All ITC businesses continued to reduce specific energy consumption (energy required per unit of production). While Leaf Threshing units achieved a 20.8% reduction in specific energy consumption, Cigarette and Paper businesses achieved 14.8% and 9.3% reduction, respectively.

The Bhadrachalam Paperboards unit (the greenest paper and paperboards mill in India as per the Green Rating Report, 2004, by the Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi) accounts for almost 65.5% of ITC’s total energy requirements.

This Mill, through a number of energy conservation measures, has further reduced specific energy consumption by 12.5% (on saleable production).

Some of the units to achieve significant specific energy reduction in 2006-07 were: Leaf Threshing plants at Anaparti (21.7%) and Chirala (15.3%); Cigarette units at Munger (25.5%) and Saharanpur (24.7%); Paperboards unit at Bollarum (15%); ITC Grand Central (18.7%) and Hotel Rajputana(15.9%).