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The venture arm of Prue Murdoch and Alasdair MacLeod’s agri-food focused investment group Macdoch is eyeing later-stage fund investments.
The event, backed by the Australian government, was something of a mixed bag – but did highlight how large the focus on nature-positive initiatives is becoming.
The fund manager’s latest forestry vehicle has been backed by a single European institutional investor.
While investors have historically placed their climate and biodiversity efforts in different siloes, delegates at the first Global Nature Positive Summit say more value can be achieved by considering them holistically.
The tech giant is by no means done with its buying spree – any onlookers wishing to get in on the action might have to move fast before supply becomes constrained.
The secondaries specialist’s timberland portfolio has grown to have 31,000 km2 footprint and removed 15.9 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere in 2023/24.
Investors are increasingly interested in reforestation. Agri Investor examines the factors underlying this trend and the challenges involved.
Sustainable timberland investments offer investors traditional portfolio diversification benefits alongside new opportunities for positive impacts, say Manulife’s Thomas Sarno, David Fortin and Mary Ellen Aronow.
The vehicle has a long-term goal to remove one gigaton of carbon dioxide-equivalents from the atmosphere by 2050.
The AFF20 reveals firms had to have raised at least $845m between 2019-23 to be among the top 20 capital raisers in food, forestry and natural capital.