Carbon

In southwest Queensland’s harsh red soils, SLM Partners has spent a decade using holistic grazing and carbon credits to turn a drought-ridden beef operation into a thriving regenerative landscape.

Women-owned investment manager receives commitments from FinDev Canada, FMO, IDB Invest and others for EcoEnterprises Partners IV.

Natural capital strategies are gradually gaining visibility on more LPs’ radars as the urgency of this shift becomes clearer.

The carbon credits platform was established by TPG in 2022 and will pursue afforestation, reforestation and revegetation projects to supply the credits.

The local pension authority has rethought the management of its 21,000-acre farmland portfolio and has backed Campbell Global and Gresham House strategies to get closer to carbon offsets.

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.

New Forests plans to create economies of scale with the Burapha Agro-Forestry investment, building upon a previous TAFF2 acquisition in Laos.

Japan’s climate policies are driving corporate appetite for forestry-based carbon credits, says EFM managing director Amrita Vatsal.

The firm intends to restore 40,000ha of degraded land across the assets located in Argentina, Costa Rica and Madagascar.

The strategy took an additional $800m in separate account mandates to bring the figure for total capital raised to $2.3bn.