Articles from BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group

BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG), one of the world’s largest timberland managers, today announced that an investment from GenZero, a Temasek-owned investment platform focused on accelerating decarbonization globally, will bring the total capital mobilized to date for their Latin American reforestation strategy to US$672 million. The BTG Pactual TIG reforestation strategy, one of the largest initiatives of its kind, seeks to mobilize US$ 1 Billion to conserve, restore, and reforest approximately 270,000 hectares of degraded landscapes in Latin America. Conservation International serves as Impact Adviser to the strategy, providing input and advice to help BTG Pactual TIG achieve positive environmental, climate, and social impacts related to the conservation and restoration aspects of the initiative.

The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) announced today the sale of an approximately 575-acre parcel of land in the Appalachia Region of Ohio to the Appalachia Ohio Alliance (AOA), a regional nonprofit focused on water quality protection and conservation. The transaction ensures the land will be permanently protected.

BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) and Conservation International have announced a significant milestone in their Latin American reforestation strategy: restoration is now underway on more than 10,000 hectares of native and biodiverse Cerrado vegetation in Brazil. According to data recorded by the Brazilian Restoration and Reforestation Observatory, this achievement increases the total area of restoration across the Cerrado region - where native vegetation is now growing on previously deforested land - by approximately 50% (as of 16 April 2025).

The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG), Conservation International, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have won Environmental Finance’s 2025 award for “Sustainability-Linked Loan of the Year – Other” for the IFC’s loan package supporting BTG Pactual TIG’s Latin American reforestation strategy, for which Conservation International serves as impact adviser. This award recognizes the innovative financing model that ties financial incentives to sustainability outcomes, representing an impactful application of green loan principles to large-scale landscape restoration and sustainable forest management.

The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Hodgman as Senior Portfolio Manager, focusing on both the firm’s Latin American reforestation strategy as well as conservation strategies across its global portfolio.

The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) achieved a key milestone in its collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), announcing today that it has recently sold 407 acres in the Sandhills region of North Carolina to the Three Rivers Land Trust (TRLT). The transaction demonstrates how conservation can be achieved through partnerships between the environmental community and the commercial timberland sector.

BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) announced today that it has crossed the $500 million milestone on its way toward its goal of mobilizing $1 billion for its Latin American Reforestation Strategy. This achievement underscores BTG Pactual TIG’s commitment to large-scale restoration, conservation, and sustainable land management across Latin America, aiming to generate significant environmental, social, and economic benefits. Conservation International serves as Impact Adviser for the strategy to help BTG Pactual TIG achieve positive impacts for people, nature and climate.

The UK government and FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, announced today a $55 million commitment to reforestation in Latin America, including in the Cerrado biome, one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in Brazil. The investment with the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) - one of the world's largest timberland investment management organizations - focuses on the conservation, restoration, and planting of deforested and degraded properties.

Today, the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) announced a long-term contract with Meta for the delivery of 1.3 million nature-based carbon removal credits, with options for delivery of an additional 2.6 million nature-based carbon removal credits, through 2038 as part of its Latin America reforestation strategy, which is designed to support climate change mitigation alongside benefits for biodiversity and communities.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, announced today a $50 million commitment to help mobilize $1 billion for the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group’s (TIG) Latin American reforestation strategy. Conservation International serves as impact adviser for the strategy.

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announced today a $50 million commitment to help mobilize $1 billion for the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group’s (TIG) Latin American reforestation strategy. The announcement was made in Oslo, Norway, on the margins of the Tropical Forest Forum, at a signing ceremony attended by White House Senior Advisor John Podesta, DFC Chief Climate Officer Jake Levine, and TIG Chief Sustainability Officer Mark Wishnie.

Today, the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) announced the execution of a carbon offset credit transaction with Microsoft. Under the terms of the agreement, TIG will provide Microsoft with up to 8 million nature-based carbon removal credits through 2043.

The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) announced today that it has finalized fundraising for BTF II, with equity commitments, including co-investments, totaling US$ 1.24 billion, exceeding its target size.

The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) has won Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Investment Award for ESG investment initiative of the year in Latin America for the second consecutive year.

Today the White House announced that the US Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is working to assess potential financing of $50 million to help mobilize $1 billion for the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group’s (TIG) Latin American reforestation strategy. The announcement was made by President Biden during the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change, when he outlined a number of actions to rapidly scale forest protection and restoration to help address climate change.

BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) have created Caddo Sustainable Timberlands, LP (CST), a platform company focused on building exposure to southeastern US timberlands. CST’s investment mandate is to generate superior risk-adjusted returns for investors while ensuring ecological integrity and sustainability. John Lock has been appointed as President and Patrick Chambless as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to CST, Lock was a region manager for Arkansas and Texas for an institutional timberland management company and Chambless was a financial reporting manager for a Texas institutional timberland management company.

A consortium led by the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, LLC (TIG), along with British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), a Canadian institutional investor, and APG, a Dutch pension provider, has launched Vista Hermosa Inversiones Forestales (Vista), a new company focused on sustainable management of timberland assets in Chile.

Through a collaboration announced today, Conservation International will serve as an impact adviser to BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group’s (TIG) new impact-oriented reforestation investment strategy in Latin America. The strategic collaboration seeks to mobilize US$ 1 billion over five years and deliver significant climate, environmental and social benefits at a large scale, alongside financial returns.

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG), one of the world’s largest timberland investment managers, are joining forces to leverage the potential of sustainably managed forests across the United States to address the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change. Through a first-of-its-kind agreement announced today, the initiative will seek to enhance climate action and conservation outcomes on more than $850 million1 out of TIG’s $4 billion global timberland portfolio.2

BTG Pactual announced that a consortium led by its Timberland Investment Group (TIG), along with British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), one of Canada’s largest institutional investors, and APG, one of the world’s largest pension providers, has agreed to acquire Chilean timberland assets from Arauco for US$ 385.5 million.