Binyamin Ali

With gas prices normalised, private capital is repositioning biomethane as part of the agricultural value chain – not simply a complement to the gas grid.

CEO Aleksandra Holmlund explains why improving biodiversity in working forests is a plausible path to scale, despite the negative impacts on harvesting income and carbon capture.

England appeared to have built Europe’s most credible biodiversity market by hard-wiring demand into law – that’s no longer the case.

The fund has been anchored by NGS Super, marking the firm’s first commitment from an Australian superannuation fund.

The firm intends to return to market with the second fund in its regenerative agriculture series in 2026.

The vehicle has a $200m fundraising target and will add a further 40,000ha of forestry in Paraguay.

The blended finance fund manager previously structured the $1.6bn Galapagos debt-for-nature swap, in which CI2 was an investor.

The venture capital fund will target areas including maritime decarbonization, ocean renewable energy and green shipping infrastructure.

The vehicle will make investments in areas such as afforestation and sustainable land use in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

NatWest Cushon's responsible investment manager Martin Logan says the "primary driver" for the pension's investment in the asset class is to "mitigate some of the carbon price risk that our equity portfolio is exposed to".