natural capital

Charlotte Kaiser joins BTG’s Timberland Investment Group alongside new director of policy and external affairs Caitlin Clarke. Both arrive from The Nature Conservancy.

Manulife, the world's biggest timberland investment manager, is planning a carbon credit-generation strategy. Managing director Eric Cooperström is feeling the tailwinds from the influx of net-zero commitments.

Pollination is targeting $6bn for a series of funds focused on natural carbon sequestration in a joint venture with HSBC Asset Management.

GenZero, Temasek’s latest decarbonization strategy, far outsizes Temasek’s landmark impact investing partnerships with BlackRock, Brookfield and Leapfrog.

Founded by Reuben Munger in 2008, Vision Ridge Partners seeks to deliver superior financial returns and positive environmental impact through investments in sustainable real assets.

Natural capital is an investable theme – not just an exercise in risk management, writes Ashim Paun of Triton Partners.

The parent company of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, a gatekeeper for Japanese pension funds, is transforming its purpose to ‘balanced creation of both social value and economic value’.

Changes to how government buys carbon credits could see holders collectively benefit from a A$2.4bn windfall from sales on the open market instead.

The Portland-based firm is investing $1bn in vertical farms, raised from investors including San Francisco and El Paso public pension funds and the Development Bank of Japan.

Pollination’s strategic partnership with ANZ Group, seen in the light of efforts to speed up closure of coal-fired power generation in Australia, shows natural capital is gaining momentum as a standalone asset class.