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Bernard Giraud
Livelihoods Venture
President & Co Founder
Bernard Giraud is president and co-founder of Livelihoods Venture, a social enterprise that manages a set of investment funds and initiatives created in partnership with major French and international companies.
Livelihoods invests and develops large scale projects of natural ecosystem restoration, regenerative agriculture, agroforestry and rural energy aiming at creating sustainable ecological and social value.
Since its creation in 2011, the Livelihoods Funds have accompanied companies in their long-term commitments on climate, biodiversity, water while improving local communities livelihood. With 300m€ invested so far, Livelihoods projects have contributed to achieve significant impacts such as 4million tons CO2eq stored or avoided, 80,000 hectares of land restored, 150 million trees planted, 2 million people whose lives have been improved. A specifity of Livelihoods is its cooperative model: investors in the Livelihoods funds are fully associated to the investment decision and fund governance.
Previously, Bernard was Director of Sustainable Development and Shared Value Creation at Danone. He played a key role in Danone's transformation as a pioneer in social innovation by integrating social responsibility and sustainable development into the company's strategy and practices.
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