Moorim P&P Wins Carbon Management Award, First for Korean Paper Industry

Moorim P&P announced on the 11th that it became the first company in Korea's paper industry to win the Carbon Management Special Award at the 2025 CDP Korea Awards. The recognition followed strong evaluations in the Carbon Disclosure Project, a global ESG assessment, validating the company's low-carbon production systems and transparent climate disclosure capabilities on an international level.

CDP is a global environmental information disclosure platform with participation from approximately 20,000 companies across 130 countries. The organization requests and evaluates corporate disclosures on environmental management including climate change, water, and forest resources. It serves as a leading environmental benchmark referenced by global investment institutions and the United Nations.

Approximately 1,700 companies, including Korea's top firms by market capitalization, were subject to disclosure requirements in the CDP Korea Committee's evaluation. Among these, Moorim P&P received high marks across its low-carbon production processes and climate disclosure framework, earning the Carbon Management Special Award. Previous recipients include global ESG leaders such as SK Hynix, Hyundai Motor, and L'Oréal.

A key factor behind Moorim P&P's recognition is its resource-circulation-based low-carbon production system. The company operates Korea's only eco-friendly resource circulation facility that converts "black liquor," a biomass byproduct from pulp manufacturing, into fuel for electricity and steam generation. This achieves an annual fossil fuel displacement effect equivalent to approximately 800,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Moorim P&P is also the sole Korean producer of "low-carbon paper" certified by the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment.

Moorim is actively strengthening its climate disclosure framework. The company published the paper industry's first "Climate Change Response Report" in Korea and discloses Scope 3 emissions—indirect greenhouse gas emissions across the entire value chain from production to distribution and disposal.

"This award represents international recognition of Moorim's next-generation eco-friendly facilities and transparent climate disclosure capabilities," said Lee Do-kyun, CEO of Moorim P&P. "We will continue building a sustainable paper industry ecosystem with the goal of achieving net zero by 2050."