Natural Capital

Tasmania is surrounded by sea and so has no land-based neighbors but an abundance of trees and renewable energy make the Australian state an ideal location for an e-fuel facility, Forico says.

The firm has been working with Environment Bank for two years to develop its strategy in anticipation of biodiversity net-gain credits coming into effect.

The firm’s Regenerate European Sustainable Agriculture Fund received a €150m commitment from M&G Investment’s Catalyst strategy in 2023.

Manulife Investment Management’s agreement with the Indonesia Investment Authority will focus on real estate investments initially, to support the country’s logistics sector.

Agri-food and forestry funds rallied in H2 as significant closes at Paine Schwartz, Proterra and Brynwood Partners propelled capital raising.

Annual fundraising for 2023 has slotted into the 8.2bn five-year average as 2022 emerges as the market’s major slump-year since 2018.

The firm expanded its partnership with iCapital last year to include access to farmland investments through its open-end Global Farmland Fund.

Bregal Sphere, the recently launched impact arm of Bregal Investments, wants to be at the 'tip of the spear' in showing what high-quality carbon credits look like, says the new co-head of its nature-based solutions strategy.

The firm raised $945m across its secondaries and carbon strategies in 2023.

The non-profit asset manager was launched by three partners to invest exclusively in the US state of Maine.