Floresta Shares

The Floresta Group of companies was established in 2010 by private investors to design, finance and develop two of the world's largest forest carbon projects – one in Indonesia and the other in Brazil. Our objective is to demonstrate that private sector investment can improve local livelihoods, conserve forest environmental services, and achieve private equity levels of return through an integrated approach linking commercial forestry, biomass energy, improved agriculture and carbon credits and offsets.

Floresta has been established as a limited company rather than as a fund. Thus, it is shares in the holding company or in one of its regional subsidiaries that are being profiled. This corporate structure was chosen to offer flexibility to investors who may have a preference to invest at a regional level and also to allow for further flexibility at exit. When the projects are developed (within three to five years), one or more of the company’s project vehicles or regional subsidiaries could then be able to realize value by listing on a recognized stock exchange or through sale of control to trade or financial concerns.

Financial description

We seek to offer our equity investors private equity type returns. The base returns are generated from commercial scale biomass and timber plantations strategically located to reduce deforestation by providing sustainable jobs, renewable energy and an alternative source of wood supplies to local industry. Returns significantly above those of comparable investments are achievable because the investment program, by reducing or eliminating deforestation, generates carbon credits as well as revenue from the sale of wood. These projects represent the first industrial scale investment opportunities of their kind.