Biography

Divaldo Rezende is an accomplished senior executive and consultant with more than 30 years of success across the environmental services, energy, and financial services industries. Throughout his executive career, Rezende has held leadership positions at companies including Ecologica Institute, Ecologica ID, and CantorCO2e Brazil. As executive director & VP of Ecologica Institute since July 2017, he has raised more than $100M for social and environmental projects in the Amazon region of Brazil, spearheaded forestation of more than 1,000 acres in the Amazon rain forest, and is working on several projects to help improve environmental issues and climate change mitigation. He previously served for two years as secretary of state for environmental and sustainable development with Tocantins State for two years. He earlier spent four years as managing director of CantorCO2e Brazil, helping companies in principal emissions markets with financial services. This was preceded by five prior years as President of Ecologica Institute, after he founded the organization in 2000. He also served as a consultant to the United Nations from 2000 to 2013, working on programs in sustainable development.

Research Interest

Climate change, environment, renewable energy, sustainable development, renewable energy