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Edition 5 –
February – 2022
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Fundo
Vale
Our
mission is to promote positive social and environmental impact solutions
that strengthen a sustainable, fair and inclusive economy. In 2021
alone, we invested more than R$52 million in the generation of
positive social and environmental impacts. For more than 10 years, we
have been helping to build a new economic reality by investing in
business development, knowledge creation and financial arrangements
aimed at conservation and restoration of biomes, especially the
Amazon.
Fundo Vale’s transparency, governance and efficiency
are leveraged through impact measurement and management. We use a
systemic approach involving partnerships, allowing us to discover,
coordinate and work with different stakeholders in the ecosystem. We are
driven by the belief that Brazil may be recognized as a major bioeconomy
power.
Read
on to learn about the main results of our activities in
2021:
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Contribution
to Vale’s sustainability commitments
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Vale’s
2030 Voluntary Forest Commitment
Fundo
Vale has led Vale’s Forest Goal, ushering in an innovative management
model and supporting the development of social and environmental impact
businesses. Together with partners, such as Vale Natural Reserve, Vale
Institute of Technology – Sustainable Development, Palladium, Imaflora,
the Certi Foundation, Move Social and the Institute for Studies on Work
and Society (IETS), Fundo Vale has supported and closely monitored the
unparalleled development of five agroforestry businesses, helping us
work toward our goal in line with the logic of impact businesses. In
2021 alone, around R$46 million was invested in this project and 5,125
hectares of degraded areas were completed restored in the
proof-of-concept phase alone.
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Study
about
REDD+
Fundo
Vale produced a business plan about projects
for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation
and Forest Degradation (REDD+). Through a
methodology that combines positive social
and environmental impacts with business
strategies focused on Vale’s strategy to
become carbon neutral, 59 opportunities
(involving around 5 million hectares) were
mapped and divided into a preliminary
portfolio featuring robust alternatives for
the short term, and other possibilities to
be investment in the coming years. The aim
of the study was to analyze REDD+ projects’
potential contribution to Vale’s protection
strategy as of 2022.
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Partnership
with
BNDESAt
the 26th United Nations Climate Change
Conference of the Parties (COP26), held in
Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021, we
formed a partnership with the
Living
Forests
Initiative,
led by Brazil’s national development bank,
BNDES. The goal is to reforest between
16,000 and 33,000 hectares with
native species in the next seven
years.
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Mine
2.0With
the support of the team involved in the
Forest Goal, the startup FlorestAí took part
in Vale’s innovation program, Mine
2.0,
to look for solutions to quantify carbon
stocks in biomass in agroforestry systems.
The solutions developed tackle challenges
such as the high cost of carrying out a
forest inventory, insufficient databases,
complexity of biodiversity and limited
scalability.
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Catalyzing
social and environmental impact businesses
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Amazon
Impact Accelerator (AMAZ)Fundo
Vale, in partnership with the Amazon Conservation and Sustainable
Development Institute (Idesam), invested R$5 million to support the
creation and first 10 years of operations of the Amazon Impact Accelerator
(AMAZ).
The aim of the accelerator is to catalyze social and environmental impact
businesses, build capabilities, and provide and unlock financial capital to
strengthen the bioeconomy in the Amazon biome. In 2021, the first investment
round selected 6 startups, which will each receive an initial capital
injection of R$200,000. Projected impacts:
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Innovation
for a low-carbon
economy
A
new partnership with Climate Ventures was
formed, to allocate more than R$1 million
to continue to strengthen low-carbon businesses.
There will be five areas of work: the Green Wave
Platform; the Amazon at Home, Intact Forest
Movement; the Carbon Calculator for Impact
Businesses; the Brazilian Climate Launchpad
Contest; and the Program to Promote Good
Businesses for the Climate.
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Providing
and unlocking financial capital
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COVID-19
Response Plan and
emergency credit
line
Fundo Vale provided R$5.6
million to family
farming and extractive
production associations and
cooperatives through its COVID-19
Response
Plan
in 2020 and 2021. Through our
partnership with Conexsus and
Fundo CX, we have so far
benefited 18,800
producers, invested
in 85 community
businesses (43%
in the Amazon) and provided
R$9.4 million of
emergency credit.
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Climate
and Forest Tech
Fund
Fundo Vale started to design a
venture capital fund, focused on
investing in technology
companies involved in forestry
services, the regenerative
economy, the bioeconomy,
environmental nutrition and
renewable energy. This
initiative is currently looking
for investors who are interested
in contributing to
sustainability projects.
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Amazon
Crowdfunding
Platform
Fundo Vale will allocate
R$600,000 to the Amazon
Crowdfunding Platform, as part
of a new partnership with SITAWI
– Finanças do Bem. This platform
allows individuals and
organizations to directly invest
in impact businesses in the
Amazon region.
Take
part!
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Building
capabilities and working in coalitions
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Fundo
Vale invested R$720,000 to strengthen the impact ecosystem in
Brazil, through partnerships with the Institute for Business Citizenship
(ICE), the Phi Institute, Latimpacto and the Institute for the Amazon’s
People and Environment (Imazon). We took part in nine forums and
networks: the Brazilian Climate, Forests and Agriculture
Coalition; the Amazon Investor Coalition; the Partners for the Amazon
Platform (PPA); Cooperation for the Amazon; the Network of Development
Entrepreneurs (ANDE); the Group of Institutes, Foundations and Companies
(GIFE); Latimpacto; Impact Foundations and Institutes (FIIMP); and the
Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development
(CEBDS).
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Latin
American network for positive
impactsFundo
Vale renewed its support for Latimpacto,
a Latin American network created in 2019, which involves a
community of providers of capital (human, intellectual and
financial) that are committed to implementing high-impact
solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Fundo Vale is
one of the founding members.
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PrevisIA,
the platform that can predict a better
futureLaunched
in August 2021, PrevisIA is the outcome of a
partnership between Fundo Vale, the
Institute for the Amazon’s People and
Environment (Imazon) and Microsoft. By
cross-checking data from satellite images
stored in the cloud and artificial
intelligence, the system identifies areas at
risk of deforestation in the Amazon before
it occurs, allowing preventive measures to
be structured. The initiative was a winner
in the “100 Most Innovative Users of IT in
2021 Awards” in the “Digital Industry – IT
in Telecom” category, and it was a finalist
in the “100+ Biodiversity Positive Practices
and Actions from Around the World Awards,”
held in China by the UN Convention on
Biological
Diversity.The
platform is open to society.
You can access it here
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Fundo Vale actively contributed to 20 thematic seminars and
other events to strengthen the social and environmental
impact ecosystem, as well as bioeconomy, innovation and Amazon
agendas, helping to build narratives and leverage projects
across the sector. Four studies on strengthening the
impact ecosystem were also carried out: • "2020
Impact Map", by
Pipe.Social, • “The
Green Wave – Opportunities for
Enterprise and Investment with Positive Environmental Impacts in
Brazil, by Climate Ventures, • “Evaluating
the Effectiveness of Impact
Accelerators”, by Move
Social, • “NBS
Study”, by The Bakery. |
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“Positive
Social and Environmental Impact Businesses
Course”
Fundo Vale structured the “Positive Social and Environmental
Impact Businesses Course” at Vale’s Sustainability Academy, in
order to expand internal understanding of the topic and promote
the Brazilian social and environmental impact agenda. The course
took place in partnership with Professor Graziella Comini of the
University of São Paulo and Tamara Azevedo of Cocriar. Divided
into two modules, the course was run in three
classes, and there are plans to have more groups this
year. To help spread the course’s content, some major players in
Brazil’s impact ecosystem gave interviews in four video
classes, which will also be available to external
stakeholders..
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In
this video, you can find out more about
Fundo Vale’s history, areas of activity,
results and positive social and
environmental impacts. Discover our
journey!
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Fundo
Vale’s priority is to ensure the protection and privacy of your data, so we
have reinforced our commitments regarding the collection, storage, treatment
and sharing of your personal data, in accordance with Brazil’s Personal Data
Protection Law (Law 13,709 of 2018).
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