Carbon

Aviva Investors launches Carbon Removal Fund; Craigmore Sustainables forestry funds hits NZ$100 million; Agri Investor Global Awards close for entries in two weeks; Foreign investment in Australian ag and forestry investment falls from A$8.5 billion to A$5.3 billion; Pollination and Howden examine the role of insurance in nature finance, and more. Welcome to Field Notes, the start-of-the-week briefing for our valued subscribers only. Tips and feedback to: binyamin.a@pei.group.

The vehicle will try to assemble a diverse portfolio of carbon credits derived from assets including forestry, peatlands, mangroves and carbon removal technology.

The firm’s Totara Forestry Partnership has already started deploying capital in New Zealand’s North Island.

We speak to Fiera Comox head of natural capital Jeff Zweig about what it takes to win trust and structure deals with Indigenous groups.

Forestry-Linked Securities wants to shake things up with a different approach to exiting its forestry portfolio with an asset securitization.

The venture arm of Prue Murdoch and Alasdair MacLeod’s agri-food focused investment group Macdoch is eyeing later-stage fund investments.

The event, backed by the Australian government, was something of a mixed bag – but did highlight how large the focus on nature-positive initiatives is becoming.

While investors have historically placed their climate and biodiversity efforts in different siloes, delegates at the first Global Nature Positive Summit say more value can be achieved by considering them holistically.

The tech giant is by no means done with its buying spree – any onlookers wishing to get in on the action might have to move fast before supply becomes constrained.

The secondaries specialist’s timberland portfolio has grown to have 31,000 km2 footprint and removed 15.9 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere in 2023/24.