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This excellent summary by Paul Turner-Smith very much echoes the feelings and thoughts of RESTORE as we enter 2025: the year of unlocking natural capital, alongside others such as Oxygen Conservation and Nattergal Ltd in the nature restoration market. Across 2024, our key focus was on growing acres and clients; ensuring we have a sound nature restoration portfolio - one that thankfully continues to grow, as demand from landowners for restoring their land grows apace. However, as we move into 2025, it is critical that we accelerate change on the ground, and unlocking natural capital - on sites awaiting but yet to feel the full force of nature restoration uplift - will be key. The core barrier for landowners and especially smaller-acreage farmers wishing to restore nature - whether process-led ecological restoration ("rewilding") at scale, or recovery of functioning habitats in farmland - is finance at the front end. It's all very well having cash later, but how do you transition a farm dependent upon intensive processes, without enormous risk? There is a growing realisation and acceptance that by restoring nature, capital can be unlocked in the future - but still an annoying lack of emphasis, if you are a farmer, on how capital can 'bridge' the gap, and help you transition from extractive land practice towards restorative, with the certainty needed to carry out bold change with confidence. This year, RESTORE and its growing natural capital team, led by Gil Martin, will be pushing further than before in ensuring transitions into restoration are de-risked, and natural capital products that deliver up-front certainty will be a critical piece of this puzzle.

RMB's Director of Natural Capital, Martin Potgieter, shares how integrating natural capital into investment strategies can help protect ecosystems, support sustainable growth and create new opportunities. Find out how investing in nature can make a difference: www.rmb.co.za/u/tbw0Gg. #COP29 #NaturalCapital #SustainableInvestment

From scaling carbon transactions to the rise of nature-positive investment funds, this year has the potential to be a turning point for natural capital in the UK and beyond. Alex Godfrey of Octopus Investments shares five developments he thinks will reshape markets, restore ecosystems and align environmental and financial goals in 2025. #NaturePositive #Ecosystems #PensionsforPurpose https://zurl.co/7kgKD

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Join me today as I chat with Martin Halle of the UN Environment Programme, where he explains the Restoration Seed Capital Facility (RSCF). Learn about the challenges it was created to solve, how the landscape of forest investment is evolving in emerging markets and how fund managers can access this seed funding to help with new fund establishment and pipeline origination. "There is a desperate need for more money to go to land use models that have a better impact on the ground both socially and environmentally."  #ForestInvestPodcast   

We're excited to feature Fernando Sordo from Acacia Capital in our latest Investor Series! Learn how Acacia integrates environmental and social impact into their investment strategies, balancing financial returns with positive societal contributions. Key topics explored include: - Integration of environmental and social impact in their philosophy - Challenges and industry trends influencing their decisions - Long-term benefits of environmental stewardship in investment portfolios Read the full interview here: https://bit.ly/3yebM42 Acacia Capital quick overview: 📍 Mexico 🏢 Value investing across asset classes 🌍 Mexico, USA, EU, Latam 🌐 https://lnkd.in/eduWHU36

Discover why and how to integrate biodiversity into your investment strategies with the new free module of our Candriam Academy. 🔍 You’ll learn concepts such as double materiality, the role of ecosystem services... and how to drive impact as a responsible investor. Discover the module & Be part of the Candriam Academy today: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eM_y8baM #Candriam #Investing4Tomorrow

🌿 Investing in Impact! Discover how we are driving innovation and resilience in sustainable development: 📈 Scaling Biodiversity Protection: Learn how our nature-related financing is shaping a sustainable in Latin America and the Caribbean, home to 40% of the world’s biodiversity. 💡 Unmatched Loan Performance: 65 years of exceptional sovereign-guaranteed lending, demonstrating unwavering reliability through global challenges. 🤝 Pioneering Capital Strategies: Explore how we are collaborating with other multilateral developments banks to optimize credit risk, strengthen capital adequacy, and expand our capacity to fund transformative projects. 🔗 Dive into the full Investor Highlight #SustainableFinance #ImpactInvesting #BiodiversityProtection #Investors

Portfolios looking to make a real-world impact are turning more and more towards real asset investing. In the face of a trillion dollar investment gap in our global infrastructure, this seems like the smart move, not only for progress worldwide but also as a smart long-term investment to secure our planet’s future. But what is the extent of impact that real assets can generate? Find out in this week’s episode featuring Anish Majmudar, the leading expert head of real asset impact investing from M&G plc. Join us as Anish unpacks how strategic investments in infrastructure, agriculture, and sustainable projects are pivotal in driving environmental and social change. 🎧 Tune in: https://lnkd.in/eUEGTDwn #ImpactInvesting #ESG #SRI360 #RealAssets #PrivateCapital #RealAssetInvesting #InfrastructureInvesting

In part two of our ‘World Green Building Week: Insights into the ESG landscape’ series, we look back at financial implications of investing into a sustainable future and at our next steps forward.    In our Birmingham event, Matt Chandler, Founder & CEO of Longview Capital Investments, commented ‘Financial decisions to implement sustainable initiatives is always quite difficult', but they are essential to make. Watch his full takeaways from the session below. #worldgreenbuildingweek #esglandscape