The project ‘Fishing for litter in Guanabara Bay’ is about to complete its first year of starting the collection of solid waste from the marine environment in the surroundings of Ilha do Governador. Since April 2022, the 23 fishers from the two traditional fishing villages involved in the project, Praia dos Bancários and Z-10, have […]
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BVRio’s circular economy team has been strengthened this month, with the permanent appointment of Juliana Miranda, who has spent the last eight months working as an intern at BVRio’s headquarters in Brazil. Juliana joined the team in May 2022 with experience in social entrepreneurship and environmental education projects and has just graduated with a Bachelor’s […]
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BVRio is one of the organisations which will be part of a series of workshops to be held this year within the scope of the project ‘Unlocking and Leveraging Low Emissions Development’, run by the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS). The workshops aim to level information between representatives from the nine states of the Legal Amazon […]
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Lesson #1: Innovation requires flexibility. Reflections from Circular Action Director, Thierry Sanders on the first few months of the project, and turning things on their head. ‘Trickle down economics’ doesn’t work. It may have been a term commonly heard by economics students born before 1980. But even in 2022 in Saigon, Vietnam this outdated economic […]
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Exceeding expectations, the fishers of Ilha do Governador, Rio de Janeiro, have reached the initial target of collecting 100 tonnes of waste from Guanabara Bay in December 2022, in the project run in partnership with Ogyre, an Italian social enterprise focused on recovering waste from the ocean. The second and current phase of the project […]
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The KOLEKT waste management app, developed by BVRio group company, Circular Action, has just turned one, and what a year it’s been! The goal was to get the app into the hands of the very people who helped design it, informal waste pickers, and to test it in real world environments. In three different countries, […]
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BVRio Brazil has added to its Board by appointing three new members, providing more diverse perspectives and expertise. Now with six members, the Board meets three times a year to provide BVRio Executive Directors with comments and guidance on the organisation’s strategy and operational and budgetary plans and to assess the accounts annually. Joining the […]
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A waste recycling cooperative in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is participating in a pilot project run by BVRio and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (Alliance) to encourage higher levels of recycling by households. The project will also provide additional income to waste pickers who sort the material, with the potential to increase in the […]
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BVRio assisted a social project approved in a recent public selection to add value to the solid waste disposal generated by Petrobras facilities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The cooperative Coopama signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with BVRio to receive support from our circular economy team in presenting their proposals and, from next year, […]
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BVRio is going to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) and will participate in the Brazil Climate Action Hub and other side events over the next two weeks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. On 12 November, the Adaptation & Agriculture Day at COP27, the Brazil Climate Action Hub will focus on discussing issues related to […]
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