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Permian Global is committed to the protection and recovery of natural forests. Our approach brings together private enterprise and local stakeholders to develop long-term financially sustainable projects generating high-quality carbon credits along with substantial environmental and social gains. We work in some of the poorest regions of the world, and by working with governments and communities we provide employment opportunities, encourage the development of infrastructure within remote areas, provide support to local initiatives and stimulate local economies. We recognize that it is only by creating wide-ranging and equitable benefits for our stakeholders that we can, in return, gain the support that is vital to the long-term success of our projects.

PwC UK's dedicated sustainability & climate change team was established over 15 years ago. The UK team is part of a global network of 800 specialists with expertise in international policy and the UN negotiations; carbon emissions, policy and trading; climate change economics; climate risk modelling; deforestation; natural resources and ethical supply chains; finance, insurance and green investment; renewables and clean tech; environmental regulation and taxation; biodiversity; agribusiness; sustainable development goals; measurement & reporting.

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Althelia Ecosphere aligns the earth's economy with its ecology by financing the transition towards sustainable land use, creating new environmental assets that reflect the value of natural capital. Our investments reduce deforestation, mitigate climate change, protect biodiversity and provide a fair and sustainable living to rural communities through activities that also offer investors competitive returns.

www.althelia.com

New Forests is a sustainable real assets investment manager offering leading-edge strategies in forestry, land management, and conservation.

Founded in 2005, we offer institutional investors targeted opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region and the United States and have more than AUD 2.75 billion in assets under management. Our assets include sustainable timber plantations, rural land, and conservation investments related to ecosystem restoration and protection.

New Forests focuses on managing our clients' assets for a future in which landscapes will encompass both production and conservation values. New Forests manages more than 620,000 hectares of land and forests and is headquartered in Sydney with offices in San Francisco and Singapore.

PEFC is the world's leading forest certification system and an internationally recognised brand devoted to ensuring that forests are managed according to environmental, social and economic criteria.

We are an international non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to promoting Sustainable Forest Management through independent third-party certification.

PEFC works by endorsing national forest certification systems developed collaboratively by all interested stakeholders and has recognised certification systems in 36 countries.

http://www.pefc.co.uk/

South Pole Group (SPG) is a leading provider of global sustainability solutions and a pioneer in emission reductions, renewable energy and forest conservation projects and programmes. South Pole Group helps companies in the consumer goods, extractives, agricultural and forestry sector to take sustainability action in the areas of corporate water stewardship, offsetting or insetting activities, deforestation in supply chains, reduction of emissions from deforestation (REDD+), and climate smart agriculture. SPG builds on its expertise in identifying, quantifying and understanding operational impacts on natural capital - namely forests, water and other land use resources - to design strategies, policies and monitoring approaches for impact reduction.

Timberland Investment Resources Europe, LLP is a privately owned investment management partnership dedicated to providing investors with superior risk adjusted returns through the acquisition, management and sale of forestry and related assets. We are a team of experienced investment professionals who collectively have a long track record of managing assets for sophisticated investors and building large scale, strongly performing timberland portfolios. We employ leading forest management strategies and deploy in-house economic and biometric research methodologies to inform and guide investment decision-making - including a rigorous buy-hold-sell discipline.

Our investments are managed with an emphasis on generating diversified cash flows and producing long-term asset appreciation. Investors may participate in our offerings either directly or via a fund structure. Timberland Investment Resources Europe, LLP is based in London, with partners in the United States, and are authorised and regulated by The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

http://www.tireurope.com/

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The Climate Markets and Investment Association (CMIA) is the voice of the climate, sustainable finance and services community.
Governments and policy-makers across the world recognise CMIA as a leader among progressive trade associations with regards to incentivising low-carbon and resource efficient investment through market mechanism, pre-compliance markets, or climate and sustainable finance mechanisms.

www.cmia.net

Forest Trends works to conserve forests and other ecosystems through the creation and wide adoption of a broad range of environmental finance, markets, and other payment and incentive mechanisms.

The Global Canopy Programme is a tropical forest think-tank focused on accelerating the world's transition to a deforestation free economy. Our team of policy experts, researchers, communicators, and support staff is based in Oxford, and works closely with networks of decision-makers in the financial sector, corporations, government and civil society across the world. We are dynamic, determined and creative in pursuit of 3 high-level objectives: (1) To grow the forest-friendly economy (2) To end the global market for deforestation (3) To account for impacts and dependencies on forests. To find out more about GCP's work visit www.globalcanopy.org or write to info@globalcanopy.org

The Natural Capital Declaration (NCD) is a global finance-led initiative to integrate natural capital considerations into financial products and services, and to work towards their inclusion in financial accounting, disclosure and reporting. It is signed by the CEOs of 43 financial institutions, which are actively working with supporting (non-financial) organisations to develop methods to implement the four commitments in the Declaration. This is being done through a steering committee of signatories and supporters and four working groups, supported by a secretariat formed of the UNEP Finance Initiative and the Global Canopy Programme (GCP). www.naturalcapitaldeclaration.org

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