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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BVRio’s circular economy specialist, Pedro Succar, presented the results of a market study conducted by BVRio in 2021 on plastic circularity in Brazil at the opening event of the Circular Plastics Programme in the Americas (CPAP), in Rio de Janeiro
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In support of this year’s United Nations World Oceans Day, we have looked back on our decade of activities in developing market mechanisms to support initiatives that remove or prevent ocean pollution, and we are celebrating those initiatives on the Circular Action Hub who do the same.
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BVRio has today, as part of a group of voluntary standard setters under the PREVENT Waste Alliance and with support from the ValuCred consortium, released a joint statement welcoming the resolution ‘End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument’ adopted at the fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in Nairobi.
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BVRio’s project in partnership with the Italian social enterprise Ogyre featured on the cover of O Globo, a mainstream newspaper in Brazil, over the weekend. The reporter Ludmilla Lima went to meet the fishers, who are now earning a salary collecting waste from Guanabara Bay through the project, after seeing the fish almost disappear in less than two decades from their coastline very much in part because of pollution.
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