BVRio is using its extensive experience of creating and managing its successful timber due diligence software, to create a new Big Data based service for imports of Brazilian Soy into the UK and EU. The development project, funded by the Waterloo Foundation, aims to address a key cause of deforestation in Brazil; soy production. Brazil […]
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Fishers are pulling an astonishing amount of upholstered furniture from the mud as they look for recyclable materials.
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Today, on Amazon Day, we are pleased to announce that the AmazoniAtiva platform will be taken forward by a new organisation.
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Often deemed hard to recycle, beverage cartons are the focus of a new initiative run by Circular Action, a BVRio group company, in partnership with Tetra Pak and Packaging Recycling Organisation Vietnam (PRO Vietnam), which will not only provide a recycling solution, but which will also deliver additional income to potentially hundreds of informal waste pickers.
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Since April this year, the second phase of our ‘Fishing for litter’ project has been supporting 25 families from Ilha do Governador, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to remove waste from Guanabara Bay.
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In June, BVRio completed an 18-month-long pilot project in partnership with PREVENT Waste Alliance that benefited ten Brazilian waste picker cooperatives and a Mexican network of collectors through the issuance of circular credits.
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BVRio endorses the Forest sector priorities plan in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, highlighting the creation of specific credit lines for the forest sector and incentives for Private Natural Heritage Reserves (RPPN).
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BVRio is coordinating the independent Environmental Committee of the Responsible Commodities Facility (RCF) made up of the biggest names in global conservation efforts.
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The project PlanaFlor held the first of a series of workshops with stakeholders to assess the draft of the strategy that aims to accelerate the Brazilian Forest Code roll-out in the coming years.
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The event Forest Code +10 was attended by more than 6,000 people, who participated in online workshops and roundtables, face-to-face meetings and launches of instruments and initiatives, including solutions developed by BVRio in partnership with other organisations.
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