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Edition
4 – December – 2021
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Partnership
between Fundo Vale and SITAWI to support Amazon impact
businesses
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Vale has just formed a partnership with SITAWI – Finanças do Bem to
support social and environmental businesses in the Amazon. It involves
supporting the Collective Loan Platform, an initiative created by
SITAWI, which will now gain impetus from Fundo Vale’s backing. The
platform allows individuals and organizations to invest directly in
impact businesses in the Amazon region. These projects are mitigating
the effects of deforestation in the Amazon and causing local people to
value intact jungle more, as well as conserving biodiversity, providing
an income for communities and preserving local
culture.
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PrevisIA,
a platform that predicts areas at risk of deforestation in the Amazon, was a
winner in this year’s “100 Biggest Innovators in the Use of IT Awards,” in
the “Digital Industry – IT in Telecom” category. The project uses artificial
intelligence developed by the Institute for the Amazon’s People and
Environment (Imazon), supported by Microsoft in partnership with Fundo Vale.
The idea is to use artificial intelligence to analyze data stored in the
cloud, collected via satellite, in order to map official roads and, above
all, new clandestine roads and thereby identify areas at greatest risk of
deforestation in the Amazon. Public organizations, NGOs and journalists –
the platform’s target audience – are being mobilized to use the information
generated for local strategic actions to avoid future deforestation. The
platform is open to society at https://previsia.org/.
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Impact
Businesses?
Social and environmental impact business are
enterprises that simultaneously meet four criteria: |
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– They clearly express their intention
(mission/purpose) to solve (at least in part) a
social and/or environmental
problem;
2 – Their core business
activity provides a solution to a real social or
environmental program and this solution is the
main reason that justifies the business’
existence;
3 – They operate in line
with market logic, seeking a financial return,
meaning they generate their own revenue by
selling products and/or services, regardless of
their legal format; and
4 – They are
committed to monitoring the social and
environmental impacts they generate in
society..
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Climate
Action at Latimpacto
On December 1, an event called “Knowledge
Session: Understanding the Role of Philanthropy
and Impact Investment in Voluntary Carbon
Markets” was held. This was the first climate
change and conservation impact community
activity organized by Latimpacto. The debate was
moderated by Márcia Soares, Fundo Vale’s
networks and partnerships leader and a member of
Latimpacto’s Strategic Council. The speakers
were Vivian Lujan Gallegos of Climate Asset
Management and Natalia Arango of Fondo Acción.
They talked about climate action and
conservation.
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Fundo
Vale at annual conference of
Brazil-China Business Council
On December 7, Márcia Soares, Fundo Vale’s
networks and partnerships leader, participated
in a panel discussion called “Sustainability and
the Future of the Bilateral Agenda” at the
annual conference of the Brazil-China Business
Council. The other speakers were José Renato
Domingues (vice president of China Three Gorges
Brasil), Chai Qimin (strategy and planning
director of the Chinese Ecology Ministry’s
National Center for Climate Change Strategy and
International Cooperation) and Adalberto Maluf
(director of BYD and president of the Brazilian
Electric Vehicles Association). [1] The
moderator was Cláudia Trevisan, executive
director of the Brazil-China Business
Council.
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The
Union for Restoration, an alliance formed to
restore 4 million hectares of forest and
other landscapes in Brazil’s Amazon, Savanna
and Atlantic Forest biomes by 2030 – was
launched at COP26. The initiative’s partners
include NGOs Conservation International, The
Nature Conservancy, World Resources
Institute and WWF Brasil.
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Check
out the second episode of the podcast Empreender na
Amazônia
Partners for the Amazon (PPA) has released the second episode of its podcast
“Empreender na Amazônia,” featuring special guests Daniel Cabrera (co-founder
and executive director of Vivalá) and Maria Eugênia Tezza (executive coordinator
at the Amazon Education Academy). In this dialogue, the two entrepreneurs active
in the Amazon region comment on their experience of having their businesses
accelerated and how this has contributed to their development.
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Read
the article “A hora e a vez do blended
finance,” written by Marco Gorini, partner
and chairman of Anga&Din4mo, published
in MIT Sloan Management (year 3, no. 8, p.
46-51).Find
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Read an article on Mongabay
about the AMACRO project,
created in 2020 in the Brazilian
states of Amazonas (AM), Acre
(AC) and Rondônia (RO). The
article also mentions PrevisIA,
an artificial intelligence
platform developed by the
Institute for the Amazon’s
People and Environment (Imazon)
and supported by Microsoft and
Fundo Vale. PrevisIA is designed
to process forecasting data to
avoid deforestation in the
Amazon. |
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In an article, Exame
magazine shows the results of
the PrevisIA platform, developed
by Microsoft and supported by
Fundo Vale and the Institute for
the Amazon’s People and
Environment (Imazon). This
platform seeks to prevent
deforestation in the Amazon. The
tool was presented at COP26 in
November. Its objective is to
provide the public authorities
and civil society with
information to support
strategies to preserve the
forest and prevent
deforestation. |
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Read this article in the
newspaper O
Estado de
S.Paulo to
find out more about the projects
supported by Fundo Vale to
protect the Amazon and also its
Voluntary Forest Commitment. For
example, Fundo Vale is
strengthening the local
bioeconomy by supporting
Manioca, a startup that is
selling a line of products
derived from the Amazon’s
biodiversity. |
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December 10,
9 am to midday
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Don’t miss the “Toward the National System of
Impact Investments and Businesses (SIMPACTO)”
workshop. The event is being held by the
National Strategy for Impact Investments and
Businesses (ENIMPACTO), in partnership with the
National Public Administration School (ENAP) and
other public and private sector stakeholders in
various Brazilian states. There will be
structured dialogues aimed at jointly building
the foundations for SIMPACTO, a national
initiative to promote impact investments and
businesses. (Link)
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December 16,
8:30 am to
9:30 am
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Fundo Vale will be present at the 12th Brazilian
Agroforestry Systems Congress, to be held
between December 13 and 17. The theme this year
is “Balancing People and Evolving Paradigms.”
Bia Makiyama Marchiori of Vale Natural Reserve
in Linhares, Espírito Santo, will present the
objectives and initial results of the Voluntary
Forest Commitment at a seminar called “Business
Promotion and Investment in Sustainable
Businesses with Social, Environmental and
Economic Benefits in Brazilian Biomes.” (Link)
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