Install.
Restore.
Conserve.

The Institute is a start-up created in 2020 to catalyze sustainability

in its broad sense, considering the

environmental, economic, and social impacts of our actions.

Our Principles

Agility & Systemic

We innovate methods, customize procedures in order to simplify complexity, making them inclusive and effective. All that keeping a holistic approach.

Benefit-Sharing

We are deeply engaged with the idea of fair and inclusive business, building benefit-sharing mechanisms throughout our value chains.

Culture-Wise

We respect and value collective knowledge, taking into account cognitive and material specificities of our interlocutors.

Transparency

We are engaged in doing transparent business to transform markets and ensure that financial resources are used to bring positive effective change.

We value standing forests, living oceans and rivers, regenerative agriculture whilst recognizing the importance of all beings for nature and people.

Operational Team

MARINA GAVALDÃO

Founder, Executive Director

. University of São Paulo - Forest Engineer

. IHEID (Geneva University) - MA in Sustainable Development

. Working since 2002 with International Projects, Payments for Ecosystems Services schemes & climate change. Former technical director at Pur Projet, GERES Climate Change Unit, and Responsible for Projects and Portfolio unit at Ecoact.

VANESSA GONÇALVES

Admin & Finance Executive Assistant

. FGV - Business Administration/Foreign Trade.
. Over 20 years of experience at the Foreign Trade Department of Banco do Brasil.
. In charge of administrative, financial, and human resources activities, including document control and the management of infrastructure and equipment.

STELLA LEME
Global Project Officer

Operations lead

. Environmental manager from ESALQ/USP

. MBA in forest restoration and environmental licencing from UFSCar Sorocaba.

. Experienced in forest restoration operations and projects implementation.

MATHEUS COUTO
Affiliate Restoration Specialist

. University of São Paulo - Forest Engineer
. Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies – MSc Forest Science
. Institute of Ecological Research (IPE) - Professional Master Degree in Sustainability
. Working since 2010 with International cooperation projects, restoration initiatives, certification and supply-chains (notably cocoa), Monitoring and Evaluation.

MARINA LOBO
Programs Coordinator

. University of São Paulo – Forestry Engineer
. Licenciate in Agrarian Sciences (2020), course in Strategic Carbon Management (FGV/2021) and a postgraduate degree in Environmental Management (ESALQ/USP)

. At Ubá Marina is in charge to develop the latin american projects and support relationships with clients and partners.

WESLEY KUBO

Global Project Officer

Land scouting lead

. Federal University of São Carlos - Biological Sciences (2021)
. MBA in Sustainability Management and Technology from UFSCAR (2025)
. Has experience in Forest Inventory and in prospecting areas for Forest Restoration projects.