Welcome to Careers at Green Resources
Green Resources AS is a plantation, carbon offset, forest products and renewable energy company. The company as established in 1995 and is a private Norwegian company with 60 shareholders. It employs more than 3,000 people and has invested NOK 225 million (USD 45 million) in its African operations since its inception. Green Resources operates in Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique.
The company is Africa’s leading forestation company and has established more than 10,000 hectares of forest, growing trees to generate carbon credits and bioenergy 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 3,100 hectares of new forest was planted in 2007. In addition, the company holds more than 100,000 hectares of land for future planting.
Green Resources’ carbon credit projects include forestation, bioenergy and renewable electricity. It is a leader in forestry-derived greenhouse gas emission reductions and received the first verified carbon credits in 2000.
All Green Resources’ carbon offset revenues will be reinvested in new carbon offset activities or be used for community developments in Africa, making the credits some of the most attractive in the world.
Green Resources’ industrial operation, Sao Hill Industries, is East Africa’s largest sawmill and one of the largest transmission pole producers in the region; it also has carpentry and joinery plants. It has several sales branches throughout Tanzania.
Green Resources’ strategy is based on sustainable development of the areas in which it operates. The company believes that forestation is the most efficient way of developing and improving social and economic conditions for people in rural areas. Green Resources aims to be the preferred partner for local communities in these areas. It also wants to be the favoured African employer within its industry.
Green Resources aims to follow the highest international environmental standards by conserving natural forest and other valuable habitats. To this end, the company only harvests plantation forest and plants at least ten new trees for every one tree that it harvests, and only plants on grassland or degraded forestland. It focuses on a wide variety of species, including pine, eucalyptus, teak, measopsis and various indigenous trees.
Green Resources is actively seeking to increase the number of women among its staff and practice a positive discrimination policy in the hiring policy.
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