Natural Capital

Biodiversity fund managers remain bullish on prospects for 2025

Biodiversity fund managers said they are positive about the prospects for their funds, despite suffering net outflows last year.

NatureMetrics launches geospatial tool

AI and technology 'reshaping' nature finance, says UNEP FI

Artificial intelligence (AI) and technology are "rapidly reshaping the nature finance landscape", according to a recent UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) article, which also highlighted the growing importance of insurance and public finance for de-risking the sector.

Nature's integration into decarbonisation plans to be 'prominent' at COP30, says Moody's

COP30 later this year is likely to prioritise the integration of nature into a decarbonisation plans, Moody's Ratings has said, as it predicts key challenges for nature finance.

Nature investing survey launched

Imperial College Business School has launched a survey to better understand how biodiversity risk is affecting the motivations and investment styles of investors.

Octopus launches nature-based carbon due diligence tool

Microsoft signs another carbon credit deal

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.5 million tonnes of carbon removal credits over 30 years from a Climate Impact Partners afforestation project in India.

EIB launches biodiversity credit study

Arup invests £1m in nature restoration carbon project

Corporates need to start thinking about offsets now, says Aberdeen

Corporates have been too focused on decarbonisation of their operations and are not thinking enough about the future costs of carbon offsets, investor Aberdeen told an Environmental Finance conference. as it bets on increasing carbon prices in its own strategy.

'Hard to justify' nature financing within fixed income

Companies looking to finance their nature targets will face challenges with fixed income instruments, the Environmental Finance Natural Capital EMEA conference in London heard.

Verification of nature targets still nascent

While verification of nature targets is low, an Environmental Finance conference heard this isn't necessarily cause for concern.

Natural capital projects looking to performance-linked instruments

Natural capital project developers are increasingly considering performance-linked debt, such as outcome bonds or sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs), to help attract more private finance, attendees at the Environmental Finance Natural Capital Investment EMEA 2025 conference heard.

'Liquidity needed to scale the debt-for-nature swap market'

More liquidity is needed to help scale interest in debt-for-nature swaps, particularly to make the instruments attractive to public debt-focused investors, an Environmental Finance conference has heard.

'Resilience credits' could help finance mangrove protection

'Resilience credits' are a potential revenue stream for mangroves and other types of ecosystems, a conference heard.

'Investors need to be ready to challenge policymakers on sustainable ag'

Investors should be more forceful in advocacy work with policymakers who are preparing to row back funding to promote more sustainable agriculture practices, Environmental Finance's Natural Capital Investment EMEA 2025 conference heard.

Care needed over embedding nature into climate efforts, says pension fund

Investors should proceed with caution with how much they integrate natural capital into broader climate remits, a French pension fund has warned.

Opinions mixed over regen ag standards that could help prevent greenwashing

Wider adoption of standards in regen agriculture could help prevent greenwashing but some investors fail to see the benefits, attendees at Environmental Finance's Natural Capital Investment EMEA 2025 conference heard.