Biodiversity

There is an urgent need to safeguard the biodiversity of our oceans by switching to onshore fishing, but capital has not been deployed at scale.

The nascent debt restructuring facility has been lauded as a silver bullet for conservation finance in some quarters, but needs to continue its growth if it is to have a material global impact.

Strategies seeking investments in themes like nature-based solutions, biodiversity and natural resources – or natural capital – have begun to sprout in various infrastructure asset managers’ mandates.

A growing interest in climate and biodiversity is affecting managers’ approach to timberland investing.

Kristen Weldon previously helped launch Louis Dreyfus Company’s venture and growth unit focusing on specialty protein, aquaculture and specialty commodities.

The local authority pension scheme asset manager has launched several ESG and responsible investment public and private market vehicles in the last three years.

PAI Partners presents a guide to help firms act on biodiversity at its sustainability summit, as the asset class takes shape.

Agri Investor visits Kilter Rural's seed asset in NSW to see how it will to transform a series of farms into carbon-positive and biodiverse natural capital assets.

Limited awareness of what is meant by natural capital and a fluid carbon credits regulatory landscape are among the difficulties in steering money towards the fledgling strategy, says Olly Hughes of Gresham House.

Kilter Rural has used its initial capital raise to purchase several assets in the southern Riverina region of New South Wales, with a pipeline of further assets nearby.