Forestry

If Tony Dalwood wasn’t running Gresham House, he may have become a sports coach. He told Impact Investor how a career in rugby helped him build a multi-billion business, and why investing in sustainability is a safe bet.

The land regeneration company is seeking to revive degraded land working with local communities, while providing high-quality carbon credits.

The impact investor’s new sustainable forestry and agriculture blended finance fund builds on experience gained with an earlier land use fund, which has just made its final investments.

The UK-based not-for-profit has called for faster action, after finding that three-quarters of financial institutions did not have a public policy on deforestation in place, despite pledging action on net zero.

Can coffee made of lupine, chickpea and blackcurrant beans taste as good as the real thing? Dutch company Northern Wonder is working with agricultural researchers to make sure the end product resembles real coffee.

The Dutch bank reportedly violated its own ‘zero-tolerance’ policy towards deforestation. Extensive data research conducted by FD in collaboration with NGO Repórter Brasil shows Rabobank’s involvement with illegal deforesters.

New data platform Forest IQ has been created by an alliance of leading not-for-profit organisations. It plans to help impact investors eliminate deforestation from their portfolios.

Campo Capital and Impact Earth will use the investment into their funds to expand their pipeline of forest landscape restoration projects across Latin America.

The investment will help Mombak to scale up its operational and technology systems, as it implements a $100m strategy to reforest parts of the Amazon basin, generating carbon removal credits by capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide. 

The Restoration Seed Capital Facility, co-led by the UN Environment Programme, aims to unlock more private finance for the restoration and preservation of forests in developing countries by backing impact funds in the space.