Biodiversity

The local pension authority is an outlier and an innovator – director George Graham discusses its new 3.5% natural capital allocation and the asset class’s place in its 2030 net-zero target.

One of the first regulated biodiversity markets is up and running. Here’s how it works for fund managers, investors and landowners who want an additional source of income.

The fund manager has spent the last 12-months bedding itself into England’s biodiversity net gain market and is now ready to hit the fundraising trail hard.

Investors and landowners are creating landscapes that deliver returns from forestry, farmland leasing and regulated nature markets.

British fund managers Gresham House and Foresight Group are among the GPs with strategies that are trying to supply the new nature market.

Cibus Capital founder and chief investment officer Rob Appleby says the competitive investment landscape for novel solutions could help better align the industry with climate and human health goals.

The afforestation play has a net IRR target of 10% and will deploy capital across European markets.

Governments have pressed ahead with the establishment of regulated nature markets while LPs and GPs continue to build out the space.

The US may have an outsized influence on investment trends in the year ahead as Donald Trump casts his shadow over global conflicts, trade and climate issues.