Biodiversity

Pollen Street’s InSoil credit facility and SWEN Terra’s operator-led equity model demonstrate innovation, but the market must prove which capital structures can scale.

Spring Point CIO Margot Kane says the social impact organization's 2019 backing helped prove a strategy that has since attracted $450m from traditional LPs.

The Global Landscape Opportunities fund will invest in forestry, agriculture, infrastructure and processing assets, while also exploring carbon and biodiversity opportunities.

The vehicle’s fundraising target has been lowered from €500m to €300m.

Johann Theron, developer of the second project registered on the Nature Repair Market, hopes biodiversity certificates will help to more accurately compensate Australian Carbon Credit Unitholders.

The Aviva subsidiary has partnered with Climate Impact Partners and will seek to sequester six million tonnes of carbon across the asset’s lifetime.

Head of natural capital Andrew Champion has left QIC two years after former head Tom Murphy departed the firm.

He will depart on July 1 for a career break after nearly 20 years at the €590bn Dutch pension fund giant.

Chief sustainability officer Mark Wishnie says the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure and other reporting frameworks are shaping investors' goals, even without new revenues or regulation.