Investor Presentaiton
HIGHLIGHTS 2022
PROTECTING
BIODIVERSITY
Our business model acknowledges an inseparable
relationship with the environment. That is why we
conserve, protect, restore and do not deforest as
we conduct our activities.
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Just over 1 million hectares — is designated
for conservation. Of these, 93,594
hectares are considered to be High-Value
Conservation Areas (HVCAs). We voluntarily
identify and protect these areas for their
significant ecological, environmental and/
or social attributes, as they house endemic
and endangered species, for example.
In addition, we have Private Natural Heritage
Reserves (PNHR) that are classified as
category IV by the International Union
for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Currently, we have 75 areas classified as
HVCA and seven as PNHR in the three biomes
in which we operate (Atlantic Forest, Cerrado
and Amazon).
4 million
RESTORATION
ON ANOTHER LEVEL
We formed a partnership to create Biomas, an
impact business created to restore and conserve
4 million hectares (an area equivalent to
Switzerland) in the Amazon, Cerrado and Atlantic
Forest biomes over the next 20 years. Biomas,
which was launched during COP27, includes five
partners, in addition to Suzano: the banks Itaú
Unibanco, Rabobank and Santander, the food
company Marfrig and the mining company Vale.
Biomas' initial plan is to set aside:
2 million hectares for restoration (planting two
billion trees to reintroduce native species) and
2 million hectares for conservation
and preservation.
The company's business model is based on the sale
of high-quality carbon credits, through projects that
produce positive social impacts, including job creation
and income generation for communities.
Biomas will receive an initial contribution of R$20
million from each partner and the forecast is to reach
approximately 900 million tonnes of carbon equivalent
removals and avoided emissions in two decades.
Biomas
hectares restored and conserved in the Amazon, Cerrado
and Atlantic Forest biomes over the next 20 years
ECOFUTURO SUPPORTING
TRANSFORMATION
The Ecofuturo Institute is a non-governmental
organization that we created in 1999 with the
purpose of transforming people's relationship
with nature through environmental conservation
and knowledge sharing. Ecofuturo manages the
Neblinas Park, our reserve with 7,000 hectares of
Atlantic Forest in different stages of regeneration,
in the cities of Mogi das Cruzes and Bertioga. In
the Park, which functions as a laboratory for our
restoration and conservation strategies, we carry
out scientific research, forest management and
restoration, ecotourism, environmental education
and community participation activities.
In 2022, the reserve was one of the fields for the
research Um Tempo com e-Natureza ("Time with
Nature"), which investigates how contact with
nature can offer benefits to health, well-being
and quality of life. The study is being conducted
by the Albert Einstein Israeli Institute of
Research and Studies (IIEP), with support from
the Boticário Group Foundation.
In 2022, Ecofuturo also received the Expression
of Ecology Award in the Environmental Education
and Conservation of Natural Resources categories
and was officially named an "Actor" of the United
Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
"Actors" are prominent entities that develop
conservation and restoration programs.
Since 2016, the Park has been recognized as
an Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve by the
UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program.
Of its total area of 7,000 hectares, 518
hectares are dedicated to a Private
Natural Heritage Reserve (PNHR).
Photo: SIF/UFV - Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Muriqui-do-
sul (Brachyteles
arachnoides)
CONSERVATION OF
THREATENED SPECIES
We implement several initiatives to help
monitor and conserve biodiversity. One
example of the active conservation of
our forest areas is the Southern Muriqui
(Brachyteles arachnoides), the largest
primate in the Americas, which was first
identified in the late 1990s in one of
our properties within an area of Atlantic
Forest conserved by Suzano in the city of
Pindamonhangaba. There are currently
only about 20 populations of this species
in Brazil, which demonstrates the threat
to this species, primarily due to the loss of
native habitat. This motivated us to create
the Southern Muriqui Monitoring Program,
both in this area and in other adjacent areas.
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