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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.

How British retailer Waitrose is boosting the financial resilience of farms

04 April 2025 / WORDS BY Andrew Hoad, Waitrose by Valerie Pinkerton, Pollination

In 2024 Waitrose unveiled its pioneering ‘Farming for Nature’ initiative which committed to support more than 2000 of its British farmers to move to nature-friendly farming practices, helping to boost financial resilience of farms in the long-term and combat the effects of climate change.

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Pollination predicts: What to expect from the net-zero transition in 2025

27 January 2025 / WORDS BY Pollination

What’s on the horizon for 2025? Pollination leaders predict what’s in store for the climate and nature transition in the year to come.

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Reflections on COP29: How Article 6 rulebook will unlock carbon markets

18 December 2024 / WORDS BY Sara Oishi and Rachel Barrales

COP29 marked significant milestones in rulemaking around Article 6 and decisions on climate finance, which can open the gates for substantial advancements in carbon finance flows around the globe.

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Carbon Market Update: Colombia

05 December 2024 / WORDS BY Beatriz Sampaio and Juan Sebastian Parra

Governments around the globe are continuously adapting their regulations to shape their domestic carbon markets and their participation in the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 architecture.

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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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