Company Profile

Company Description:

Green Resources AS (www.greenresources.no) is a private afforestation and renewable energy company with investments in Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda.

Green Resources AS is a plantation, carbon offset, forest products and renewable energy company. The company was established in 1995 and is a private Norwegian company with more than 60 shareholders. It employs more than 3,700 people. Green Resources operates in Mozambique, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.

The company is Africa’s leading forestation company and has more than 14,000 ha of forest. It is growing trees to generate carbon credits and bio-energy and to manufacture wood products. Green Resources has probably planted more new trees than any other private company in Africa during the past ten years; a record 4,200 ha of new forest was planted in 2008. In addition, the company holds more than 200,000 ha of land for future planting and conservation. It started the first harvest from its own forest in 2008.