Forestry

Space4Good has received backing from a range of VC investors to scale its forest intelligence platform, expand its team and operations and enhance and diversify its product suite.

With natural capital at a crossroads, institutional investors looking to gain exposure to land, agriculture and forestry should strike now or risk being left behind, a new report says.

A Rainforest Foundation Norway and the Rights and Resources Initiative report reveals declining financial support to strengthen tenure rights for indigenous people.

Rance Timber manages 14,000 hectares of pine plantations of which more than 40% is made up of protected indigenous forests, grasslands, riparian zones and other vegetation types to improve biodiversity and water quality.

Real assets are becoming a safe haven for impact investors as population growth, urbanisation, energy demand and food insecurity put the planet under increasing pressure, a report by Phenix Capital said.

A Cardano study has explored new ways to monitor biodiversity impact, and raises the prospect of using eco-acoustics to measure investee progress in achieving biodiversity goals.

The UK and Dutch governments, alongside IDB Invest, have contributed to the Responsible Commodities Facility, which will provide $60m in loans to soy farmers committed conserving their forest reserves in the Brazilian Cerrado.

A range of UK pension funds and other institutional investors have backed the Forest Fund VI, which aims to support biodiversity preservation and flood mitigation.

The Australian forestry manager aims to develop an integrated and scaled investment allocation in the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia.  

The strategy managed by the company’s New Agriculture division aims to consolidate natural vegetation, agriculture, and forestry together as operational assets.