Natural capital specialist Climate Asset Management (CAM) is redefining real assets investing by demonstrating how ESG integration can drive both resilience and risk-adjusted returns in natural capital.

Managing more than $1 billion across its natural capital projects, CAM has built an investment model that targets conventional land assets through regenerative and sustainable management practices, monetises environmental benefits, and positions assets for institutional-grade exits.

Judges particularly praised CAM's end-to-end ESG and Impact (ESGI) framework, embedded across the entire asset lifecycle. From screening and climate risk assessment at origination to active asset management, measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), adaptive management, and ESG-aligned exit planning, sustainability is integrated into every investment decision.

CAM targets measurable outcomes across climate, biodiversity, water, soil, and community impact while maintaining a strong focus on investment performance.

An example is Holguera, a regenerative agriculture and sustainable farmland development located in Cáceres, Extremadura (Spain), which applied climate risk analysis to directly inform asset design and operational resilience.

Through institutional-scale capital mobilisation, reporting aligned with sustainability regulations and frameworks, alongside impact-linked incentives, CAM seeks to prove that natural capital can generate both environmental value and long-term financial returns.