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Pollination Nature Finance Focus

Tracking global investment in nature

To get a sense of how global nature finance is evolving, we asked a range of institutional investors about their experiences investing in nature. We uncovered their motivations, ambitions, and what they consider to be the greatest risks and opportunities in the nature space – forming the backbone of the inaugural Pollination Nature Finance Focus report.

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Climate Asset Management raises $650 mln to invest in nature projects

14 December 2022 / published on REUTERS

Climate Asset Management, the specialist “natural capital” investment manager formed by HSBC Asset Management (HSBA.L) and climate change advisory firm Pollination Group, said it has raised $650 million for projects which aim to protect the environment.

Its investors are corporates, ranging from some of the top global 100 companies to smaller niche players, Martin Berg, CAM’s chief investment officer, said. Rather than financial returns, these investors will receive carbon credits.

“We thought the main target (for the funds) would be institutional investors but we now recognise corporates are key players … they are really becoming (big) investors in this,” he said.

Through its Natural Capital Strategy’s flagship 15-year Natural Capital Fund, CAM is targeting a 10% return on investment before fees on projects in regenerative agriculture and forestry in developed markets. CAM’s second strategy, its Nature Based Carbon Strategy, taps into increasing corporate demand for verifiable carbon offsets and will finance nature-based carbon projects in developing economies.

Derisking the transition to sustainable food systems

14 November 2024 / WORDS BY Carter Ingram, Dave Haynes, Pollination and Jan Kellett, UNDP

The urgency of the need to transition to more sustainable and regenerative types of farming was in no doubt among the group of experts brought together by Pollination and UNDP in New York during Climate Week.

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Reflections on COP16

09 November 2024 / WORDS BY Dr Carter Ingram, Managing Director and Dr Matthew Cranford, Executive Director

This year COP 16 was held in Cali, Colombia from October 20-November 2, 2024. As the first meeting of COP since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework in 2022, major areas of focus for negotiations were implementation and funding needed to meet the goals of the GBF.

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Want to invest in nature? Guess what, you already are.

19 September 2024 / WORDS BY Guy Williams

It has become critical for investors to understand and measure nature-related risks in current and future investments. A new toolkit developed for investors helps them do just that.

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Pollination at Climate Week NYC 2024

18 September 2024 / WORDS BY Pollination

As Climate Week NYC gets underway for another year, the team from Pollination will be on the ground alongside our project partners to accelerate the transition to a net zero, nature positive future.

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Navigating the speedbumps on your net zero journey

04 September 2024 / WORDS BY Beth Keddie

It turns out the execution part of net zero transition can be difficult, but for forward looking corporate leaders, this cannot become an excuse to slow down.

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It’s time for boards to see double when it comes to materiality

03 September 2024 / WORDS BY Anna Hancock

With only a modest lift, the humble Materiality Assessment can become a cornerstone of sustainability and strategy capability.

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