Bio Assets Ativos Ambientais Ltda. Information

Bio Assets, focusses on renewable energy and environmental asset investments in Brazil and throughout Latin America. It was established in 2000, and is based in São Paulo, Brazil. The company owns approximately 100,000 hectares in the Brazilian Amazon through its subsidiary EcoMapuá Conservação Ltda., which is the successor company of a large forestry company previously owned by Toyomenka of Japan. The company is project developer of The Ecomapuá Amazon REDD Project, a pioneering forest carbon activity applying VCS + SOCIALCARBON Standards to monitor both carbon and socio-economic benefits from the REDD project. Bio Assets' vision of sustainability uses carbon funding and sustainable non-timber forest business in a synergistic approach, and aims to expand this model as far as possible.