Cameroon has vast forest resources that provide millions of people with jobs and subsistence products. The forest sector accounts for 8% of the country’s gross domestic product (FAO FRA 2015). Unfortunately, Illegal logging has long been recognised as a significant problem in the country, due to misuse of certain logging permits and lack of effective regulation and law enforcement (Hoare 2015).[...]

According to the FAO (2015), Indonesia has around 91 million hectares of forested land, which constitutes to 53% of the total land area. Indonesia has three categories of forest land: Conservation Forests, Protection Forests, and Production Forests. More than half of the Indonesian forest area is production forest and 87% is owned by the State.[...]

Hundreds of thousands of informal waste management sector workers including waste pickers have been affected by covid-19 across the world. How can we help?[...]

Today, 22 April 2020 Earth Day celebrates its 50th birthday with Climate Action as its theme. Today is also the anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement to take climate action. For Earth Day 2020, BVRio reminds that sectors contributing to GHG emissions must be able to secure financial resources in a large scale to ensure their sustainability and transition to a low-carbon dynamic.[...]

Want to do something about the mounting plastic waste? A new standard will drive finance towards plastic waste recovery & recycling activities. Join our webinar on 26 March, & comment on the draft by 26 April.[...]

The new RTX platform was launched this Tuesday 14th of January 2020. The user interface is now simpler, providing sellers with greater ability to demonstrate compliance with timber legality and sustainability requirements, and buyers a quicker way to carry out their own due diligence.[...]

Through this acquisition, BVRio and EcoSecurities created a strategic partnership to expand both organisations' scope and act in the next phase of environmental markets[...]

World’s first green bonds scheme to finance responsible soy production in Brazil launched The Responsible Commodities Facility aims to raise more than US$1 billion over the next four years for the responsible production of soy to save the Cerrado July 4, 2019, LONDON – The world’s first financial facility to offer green bonds for sustainable soy production in Brazil was launch[...]

New plastic waste initiative launched yesterday at the Responsible Business Summit Europe 2019 The 3R Initiative brings together NGOs, experts and leading companies Danone, Nestlé, Tetra Pak and Veolia in pioneering “circular economy” business models LONDON, 13 June 2019 – BVRio is proud to announce the official launch of the 3R Initiative yesterday at the Responsible Business [...]

New plastic waste initiative offers first ever market-based credit scheme in bid to accelerate recovery and recycling The 3R Initiative brings together NGOs, experts and leading companies Danone, Nestlé, Tetra Pak and Veolia in pioneering “circular economy” business models LONDON, UK – The 3R Initiative is the first global effort designed to reduce the plastic and packaging foo[...]