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In 2024, the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) continued to advance its core U.S. timberland strategy, reflecting the growing potential of aligning institutional timberland investment with conservation outcomes.

São Paulo, Brazil – 19 August 2025 — The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG), one of the world’s largest timberland investment managers, has announced the formation of a large, consolidated timberland platform in southern Brazil. The transaction will significantly expand BTG Pactual TIG’s presence in the state of Paraná, where it has operated since 2017.

4 August 2025 – Nest, the UK’s largest workplace pension scheme by number of members, has announced the appointment of BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG), to help its over 13 million savers invest in timberland. As part of the agreement, Nest has initially committed US$ 750 million (£550 million) to BTG Pactual TIG, one of the world’s largest timberland managers, to implement a strategy that provides exposure to sustainably managed timberland across key geographies in the Americas.

Recent analysis shows Coalition members are a quarter of the way towards US$ 10 billion target for supporting large-scale restoration and bioeconomy initiatives across Brazil by 2030.

New York, NY – 16 December 2024 – The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) and Conservation International have won Environmental Finance’s 2024 award for Impact Investment/Project of the Year: Biodiversity and Ecosystems.

2024 marked continued progress for the BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) as we advanced our mission to deliver responsible, large-scale timberland investment grounded in environmental and social impact.

New York, NY – 17 April 2025 - 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.

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.