Breakthrough Advisory Services
Pollination provides expert advice related to strategy, risk and governance, as well as law and policy, unlocking new value and helping you to build organisational resilience.
Climate change and the decarbonising of economies presents unprecedented physical and transitional risks, as well as significant opportunities in moving to net-zero, more climate resilient outcomes. We work with governments, corporates and financial institutions, to understand and manage these risks and build long term resilience for economies and businesses.
Our expertise and focus spans seven key sectors of the economy – food, fibre and agriculture, energy and infrastructure, investment and financial services, health, transport and logistics, and nature based solutions.
Our advisory services include:
- Transition and decarbonisation business strategies, including corporate finance
- Structuring innovative capital market and investment opportunities
- Climate and nature risk assessment and disclosure, including TCFD and TNFD
- Board and executive leadership
- Stakeholder engagement
- Establishing and embedding ESG frameworks
- Industry coalition building and advocacy
- Carbon markets and other nature-based solutions
- Policy, legal and regulatory advice
Supporting our strategic advice, Pollination Law provides specialist legal advice on climate risk, investment, carbon markets and other nature-based solutions.
We believe that combining strategy, law and investment with policy is key to accelerating the transition to net zero. We work with governments and policy makers to develop law and governance systems that unlock the billions in public climate funding.
Projects
We create and originate new investment solutions for corporations and governments to accelerate the transition to net zero.
Our unmatched expert team advising on decarbonisation, combined with asset management expertise, means we are well placed to identify and develop novel project investment opportunities and partnerships that range from renewable energy to carbon investments to technology solutions.
Through this, we will bridge the gap between “advisory” and “asset management”, between “idea” and “investible proposition” to unlock new decarbonisation projects and businesses. Our project investment initiatives are often in partnership with our clients or other stakeholders, and our core focus is on delivering both impact and returns.
Investment Management
In 2020, Pollination partnered with HSBC to launch Climate Asset Management, which aims to be world-leading dedicated natural capital asset manager.
Combining expertise in investment management and natural capital, Climate Asset Management aims to offer investment solutions that generate returns for investors and nature – enhancing ecosystems, protecting biodiversity and accelerating the transition to net zero.
Through its Natural Capital Strategy, it seeks to deliver commercial, long-term returns and create impact at scale by protecting and restoring vital biodiversity. Through its Nature Based Carbon Strategy, it aims to unlock the supply of high impact carbon credits for corporates and investors seeking to reach net zero.
Since launch, it has raised more than US$1bn for natural capital projects.
Learn more at climateassetmanagement.com
Pollination Law
Pollination Law is a market leading team of corporate lawyers specialising in the intersection between sustainability and commercial law.
Pollination Law is a market leading team of corporate lawyers specialising in the intersection between sustainability and commercial law. We help our clients navigate the legal risks of the climate and nature transition before they arise, enabling them to capture opportunities and drive value.
Our globally-ranked practice is led by recognised leaders in the field, including Martijn Wilder AM, rated the Star Individual by Chambers Global, and Sarah Barker, Chambers Band One (Asia-Pacific), and the only lawyer ranked in both the Climate Law and Corporate Law categories in Best Lawyers.
We advise large multi-national corporations, financial institutions and institutional investors on sustainability governance, disclosure and reporting, strategy, and contracting. We support our clients to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of climate policy and environmental markets.
Our legal services include:
- Board & Executive Advisory: Advisory services and capacity building (through a legal lens) for board and executives on forward-looking risk management and diligent discharge of director’ duties.
- Financial & Sustainability Reporting: Top-down advisory services to support the review, assurance and diligent oversight of disclosures (including the existence of reasonable grounds) with misleading disclosure advice in relation to the disclosures themselves.
- Misleading Disclosure & Greenwashing: Practical and commercial greenwashing advisory services to provide clear guardrails for sustainability-related claims in the promotion of services, products or credentials.
- Strategic Transformation & Transactions: Operational advice to support credible pursuit of your ESG strategy – turning risk management into value creation across contracting, due diligence and supply chain risk management.
- Carbon & Biodiversity Markets: Transactional support, including for carbon credit deals in voluntary and compliance markets, due diligence, Law and policy advice, including related to REDD+ and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
- Insights Services: we support boards, executive, legal and sustainability teams to distil material developments from the daily noise. We not only identify the ‘what?’ but the ‘so what?’ to help clients understand strategic implications, anticipate emerging trends, and make informed decisions with confidence.