Ejido Verde, a Mexican company, one of the fourteen companies selected to be one of the best in the world, to do the best FOR the world receives with joy the Best for The World Recognition 2021: Best for The World 2021 Recognition.
For this worldwide recognition, these are B Companies whose work focused on one or more of the five impact areas evaluated in the B Impact Assessment (BIA) —community, customers, environment, government and workers— has allowed them achieve an exceptional score and, therefore, were recognized as part of the top 5% of its size group, in that specific area.
Ejido Verde is a regenerative pine-resin company positioned to become a lead supplier in the $10-billion global pine chemicals industry in partnership with rural and indigenous Mexican communities, as well an array of Mexican and international organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme’s Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN).
On an average day, Ejido Verde plants 3,000 native trees that restore degraded Indigenous lands, creates a new living wage job for people to steward new forests in their community, and removes 100 tons of carbon from the atmosphere. Learn more and join the conversation on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Relevant milestones announced this year by Ejido Verde include:
We planted 9 million trees on degraded lands and maintained 4,280 hectares of commercial agroforestry plantations reforested with native pine trees, capturing 86,892 tons of carbon in 2020 alone, and expecting to capture more than 4 million tons by 2050.
In 2020, 1,199 jobs and 1,065 hours of formal training were generated for rural and Indigenous communities in Michoacán, including 69 women paid 1.8x the minimum livable wage. Since 2011, the organization has created alliances with 13 communities in Michoacán, strengthening resilience with 625 family.
We already have several certifications and recognitions – We were named in Fast Company’s 2020 List of the most innovative companies in the world. Selected from the list by Cleantech Group 50’s to look for innovative climate solutions provide. Company nominated for the mexican “Los Boscares” award for leadership in landscape restoration, and recognized by the trillion tree of the World Economic Forum Campaign for innovation in reforestation of indigenous communities. In February 2021, Ejido Verde was certified as the first Michoacan company Corporación B, and joins a global network of 4,049 companies that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, transparency and responsibility. Ejido Verde received the Initiative20x20.org Project Award as a best of Latin America restoration project in 2020, especially as it inspires and informs others to bring 50M hectares into restoration. And now we receive with great joy the recognition B Corp, Best for the World 2021.
Press contact – Mexico: Alejandro Rulfo, Ejido Verde, +52 55 6967 5762, comunicacion@ejidoverde.com
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The presentation of the book “10 Sustainable Entrepreneurs” by Editorial LID, ITESM and Disruptivo TV took place. Ejido Verde, as a sustainable business model, was part of the review of this book. Sponsored by Tetra-pak, this book brings together the 10 most important sustainable companies in Mexico, including Ejido Verde.