Amazonia Impact Ventures
is an impact investor taking action to mitigate climate change and enhance biodiversity by protecting the Amazon rainforest and improving the lives of its people.
Creating real impact
We connect investors with impactful projects on the ground. We design and manage meaningful investments, diligently monitor progress and provide practical support to our investees. We mobilise private capital –and co-invest our own– in the stewards of the forest and impact-driven enterprises, delivering financial returns and real impact.
Our investments directly contribute to forest conservation, reducing deforestation, protecting biodiversity, restoring degraded lands and improving the livelihoods of people living in the Amazon. From London to Peruvian rainforest communities, from European speciality coffee buyers to ethical health food companies in the US West-Coast, we participate in every step of the impact investment value chain.
The Challenge
Climate change is undoubtedly the defining issue of our time, we are at a pivotal moment in history, and we have a moral responsibility to take action now. We only have a few years to lower our emission levels to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.
Hundreds of thousands of hectares of the Amazon rainforest are cut down or burned every year, under pressure from illegal logging, mining and the expanding use of the land for unsustainable agriculture. If the current rate of deforestation continues, a tipping point will be reached by 2030 where a significant portion of the region is likely to change from rainforest to savannah.
The Amazon is estimated to contain the carbon equivalent of a decade's work of human emissions, up to 30% of all known biodiversity, 50% of all tropical forest and it produces 9% of the world's oxygen. Loss of the Amazon rainforest is removing one of the world’s largest carbon sinks, affecting the global climate stability and leading to staggering losses of biodiversity.
The Opportunity
The Amazon is one of humanity's greatest natural capital assets. It provides ecosystem services such as climate regulation, biodiversity generation, water and food production.
It works as an evolutionary laboratory and produces unique biodiverse foods which are already part of a multibillion dollar markets for sustainably-grown commodities as cacao, brazil nuts and açai as well as promising markets for other products with extraordinary nutritional properties. On the other side, so called nature-based or natural climate solutions such as conservation, restoration, and improved land management actions, increase carbon storage and avoid greenhouse gas emissions.
By investing in an inclusive biodiversity-based bio-economy, empowering SMEs and forest communities as agents of change, we can sustain the rainforest, restore degraded lands, improve forest people's livelihoods, make local communities thrive and mitigate
climate change.
Our Approach
We are driven by an urgency to take action. We use finance as a tool to produce a positive impact for nature, people and planet, and look for both impact and business opportunities in every investment.
We carefully select our investees and manage risk wisely, investing our own capital along with our investors'. We use impact-linked financial instruments to promote regenerative agricultural practices, deforestation-free commodities production, nature-based solutions to conserve and regenerate the Amazon Rainforest hand in hand with forest people, responsible companies and impact investors.
Awards & Market Recognition
Independent assessments and awards recognising how we invest and the impact we create.
Selected to the IA 50 Emerging Impact Manager list in 2026, for the second time after 2023. ImpactAssets' annual showcase of impact fund managers, chosen by an independent review committee and now in its 15th edition.
Independently assessed by the Impact Evaluation Lab (IEL) and awarded in 2026 a strong Impact Authenticity Score, recognising the strength of our mission alignment and impact practice. IEL noted AIV’s exceptional performance in Mission Authenticity, highlighting the strong alignment between our impact objectives, investment strategy and operational execution. The assessment also commended our robust Impact Execution, a significant endorsement for a fund. This seal reflects the integrity of our model and the discipline behind our work in the Amazon.
Amazonia Impact Fund I was chosen for the CC Facility's first cohort, winning grant funding and technical support to take the structure to market. Run by Climate Policy Initiative and Convergence, and funded by Global Affairs Canada, Australia's DFAT and the Gates Foundation. The first cohort shared USD 2.4m.
One of 25 funds worldwide named to the 2022 Transformative 25, for using integrated capital to change who finance serves. An annual list from Collective Action for Just Finance recognising funds, banks and initiatives reimagining the finance system for people and planet.
Winner at COP26 in Glasgow, for a model that moves agricultural trade away from clearing forest while sustaining livelihoods. A challenge run by UpLink, the World Economic Forum's open innovation platform, with the Tropical Forest Alliance and the FACT Dialogue.