Chris Janiec
Hancock vice-president Carl Evers says surface water trading may increase amid this year’s drought, providing a first step toward building mechanisms to facilitate future groundwater regulation.
Efforts to integrate climate change into the Biden administration’s infrastructure spending could influence opportunities available for investors in burgeoning carbon, water and mitigation markets.
The Horizon Fund will be managed by the investment banking company’s sustainable investing group and target growth-oriented private equity investments in climate-transition related businesses.
Managing director Chris Sun says improving food safety conditions and the influence of key opinion leaders on China’s consumers help make the company’s direct-to-consumer model especially attractive.
Fonds Souverain de Djibouti director general Mamadou Mbaye says fisheries, indoor ag and agribusiness processing are among markets that could eventually be well-suited to investments of between $50m and $100m.
Senior VP Mike Cerchiaro says European and Asian LPs’ interest in timber helped drive a reorganization that also aims to deepen engagement with carbon sequestration and conservation finance.
Head of timberland investment Tom Sarno says Hancock’s South American expansion will involve work with local companies like AMATA, which plans to open a cross laminated timber facility next year.
Analyst Beyhan de Jong says insect protein prices will fall in about five years as regulatory change clears the way for increased supply to animal feed markets.
Cameron Geiger says he will help the controlled-environment ag company respond to large retailers’ demand for reliable, large-scale production.
New Current Land and Water principal David Orth says his firm sponsored EDF's latest report to advance a land repurposing dialogue that avoids the negative associations of ‘fallowing’.