BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group
The timberland arm of BTG Pactual. On 28 April 2026 it announced the close of its Latin American Reforestation Strategy at USD 1.24 billion in commitments, which its announcement calls the largest reforestation fund closed to date. The strategy targets the protection, restoration and reforestation of about 270,000 hectares (660,000 acres) of degraded landscapes, split roughly evenly between native-habitat conservation and restoration and FSC-certified commercial tree plantations, with activity concentrated in Brazil's Cerrado, including the Brazil Cerrado 1 project. Conservation International acts as impact adviser; investors named include IFC, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, BNDES, GenZero, the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, Vale, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Tokio Marine. By 2025 it reported nearly 29 million trees planted across 64,000-plus acres, supported by a research partnership with the Federal University of Viçosa.
Projects
- Brazil Cerrado 1 · Funder and manager
Sources
- Named intimberlandinvestmentgroup.com/btg-pactual-timberland-investment-group-raises-us1-24-billion-for-largest-reforestation-fund-to-date (opens another site)
- Named inInternational Finance Corporation (IFC) (opens another site)
- Named inVerra Approves First Credits under VM0047 ARR Methodology (opens another site)
- Named intimberlandinvestmentgroup.com (opens another site)
- Named inGlobal AgInvesting (opens another site)
- Named inregistry.verra.org (opens another site) on Brazil Cerrado 1