At the Impact Investor conference, industry experts focused on the opportunities, challenges, and considerations when it comes to integrating biodiversity and natural capital into investment portfolios.
The Article 9 fund has been created in partnership with natural capital specialist IWC, majority owned by BNP Paribas Asset Management, and has raised $130m at first close.
OroraTech has raised €25m for its wildfire predictive AI technology, and for its global expansion plans. Extreme wildfire events are an increasing challenge, more than doubling globally from 2003 to 2023.
The fund aims to provide investors with access to a range of carbon removal projects, at a time when governments are waking up to the scale of work required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The investment manager highlights the need for capital investment to establish sustainable timber plantations and wood processing industries in order to meet growing demand.
The two institutions plan to pool resources to establish a fund platform and advocate in support of themes including regenerative agriculture, sustainable forestry and nature restoration.
The new fund is said to be one of the biggest and most diverse institutional capital pools ever assembled for investment in the South American country.
Asset manager MEAG, part of the Munich Re Group, is targeting a total size of up to €645m with its Sustainable Forestry Equity Fund, focusing on investments in US, New Zealand and Australia.
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