Soil

The deal, which lands amid a push to increase Australia’s low-carbon fuel production, sees fund managers positioning bioenergy as a new infrastructure subsector.

While the Australian government accelerates its buyback of water for environmental purposes, a review of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan shifts the gaze onto adjacent areas primed for investment.

The firm’s debut farmland vehicle will pursue an own-and-operate strategy and expects regenerative farmland certification to act as a ‘strategic value lever’.

The asset class is primed to have a big year as EU regulation forces importers of carbon intensive materials like steel to pay a levy on embedded emissions, making sustainable products like wood more competitive, says Foresight Natural Capital’s Richard Kelly.

England appeared to have built Europe’s most credible biodiversity market by hard-wiring demand into law – that’s no longer the case.

Chief investment officer Angelos Dassios says the buyout makes HGS BioScience one of the most complete biostimulant and bionutritional platforms in North America.

Amid the ever-present talk of AI at New Private Markets' New York Forum, Kat Taylor's unexpected song – and her argument for regenerative ag – brought investors back to the pressing issues of the day.

The vehicle has a €350m fundraising target and has also been backed by Allianz France and BNP Paribas Cardif.

The firm could invest up to €100m in the platform and intends to plant strategic permanent crops to enhance income streams and ecosystem services.

The permanent crops vehicle has received commitments from institutional LPs in Europe, North America, Australia and Chile.