Natural Capital Investment EMEA 2025

4 March 2025, 8:30 AM GMT

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BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) is the investment arm of BNP Paribas, a leading banking group in Europe with international reach. BNPP AM aims to generate long-term sustainable returns for its clients, based on a sustainability-driven approach.

BNPP AM focuses its expertise on five core capabilities - High Conviction Active Strategies, Emerging Markets, Private Assets, Systematic, Quantitative & Index, and Liquidity Solutions - with investment processes incorporating quantitative, ESG and fundamental research. These capabilities can be combined into multi-asset solutions aligned with our clients’ goals. 

Sustainability is core to BNPP AM’s strategy and investment philosophy. Among the leaders in thematic investment in Europe*, BNPP AM intends to contribute to a successful Energy transition, healthy Ecosystems, and greater Equality in our societies (our “3Es”). BNPP AM currently manages EUR 591 billion of assets and benefits from the expertise of more than 500 investment professionals and around 400 client servicing specialists, serving individual, corporate and institutional clients in 68 countries. 

Source: BNPP AM, as at 30 September 2024

* 2nd in Europe on sustainable thematic strategies, according to an analysis made by BNP Paribas Asset Management based on Morningstar data at 31/12/2023.

For more information please visit bnpparibas-am.com or our newsroom.

Calculus Carbon is a Temasek portfolio firm via IE Ventures II, enabling institutional investments for large-scale, commercially aligned Nature-based Solutions (NbS) projects across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Founded in 2022, the firm today collaborates with 22 Natural Capital Funds (NCFs) across Europe, UK and Singapore to identify scalable and bankable investment opportunities in large scale Afforestation, Agroforestry, Aquaculture, Regenerative Agriculture, and Mangrove/Peatland Restoration projects. Over the last three years, Calculus Carbon has built an investment pipeline exceeding $250 million in NbS assets across the Global South.

As a market maker, Calculus Carbon undertakes both buy-side and sell-side mandates, deploying institutional best practices from mature asset classes of infrastructure and real estate, to enable a structured and predictable investment process for capital deployment within NbS projects via project financing, equity and structured credit. The firm addresses key investment barriers including information asymmetry, fragmented project pipelines, and the lack of a standardised due diligence process that have traditionally hindered the pace of institutional-scale capital deployment within NbS.

By integrating long-term institutional investment structures and models, Calculus Carbon intends to play a role in graduating NbS to being a mature infrastructure sub-asset class over this decade. This stands to evolve the financial predictability, commercial viability and scalability for NbS projects and developers, thereby crowding in larger institutional investors and cheques from the global capital market towards the asset class.

www.calculuscarbon.com

Climate Asset Management is a specialist asset management firm dedicated exclusively to nature, offering investment solutions that are designed to be positive for nature, people and our planet. Its investment strategies work across landscapes aiming to build resilience whilst generating returns. The Natural Capital Strategy aims to deliver long-term financial returns alongside improved environmental outcomes from regenerative landscape management in agriculture, forestry and environmental assets. The Nature Based Carbon Strategy targets landscape restoration in developing economies to deliver biodiversity improvements at scale for climate resilience, community benefits and high-quality carbon credits to help global corporations meet their decarbonisation targets. In September 2024, it announced it had raised commitments in excess of $1bn across both strategies and had successfully final closed its Natural Capital Fund and Nature Based Carbon Fund.

Climate Asset Management is a joint-venture between Pollination, the global climate change advisory and investment firm, and HSBC Asset Management.

GIST Impact is a market-leading provider of impact data and analytics, specialising in measuring, quantifying, and valuing corporate impacts on nature and society. Powered by a global team of experts, GIST Impact delivers precise, location-specific impact data covering over 16,000 companies, and is the chosen partner for some of the world’s largest corporations and investors representing over $8 trillion in assets under management.

www.gistimpact.com

Manulife Investment Management is the asset management arm of Manulife Financial Corporation, a global financial institution protecting investor assets since 1887. With leading capabilities in public and private markets, we partner with institutions to understand their needs and create tailored solutions to meet them. Our specialist teams are led by industry veterans with decades of experience managing strategies on behalf of investors—an approach that's led to a culture of excellence and highly differentiated strategies across asset classes. And we're committed to investing responsibly: As a leading natural capital investment manager,¹ we create value through the sustainable management of natural resources for the benefit of our investors, the environment, and local communities, maintaining a high standard of stewardship where we own and operate assets. Today, more than 700 investment professionals work in 19 geographies to manage US$509 billion in AUM on behalf of investors worldwide.

Founded in 2009, SLM Partners is a natural real assets manager driven by impact. Our team invests directly in land and partners with skilled local operators to build regenerative, resilient and profitable land systems. We provide investors with the financial benefits of natural real assets while helping deliver on their sustainability goals. All our strategies seek to deliver measurable positive impacts on soil health, biodiversity, and carbon storage.

The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG) is one of the world's oldest and largest timberland investment managers with US$ 5.6 billion assets and commitments (as of November 2022) and ~3 million acres under management throughout the U.S. and Latin America (as of March 2022). TIG is focused on achieving compelling investment returns while also applying high standards of environmental and social governance, and has a 40+ year track record with over 100 professional staff members in 15 offices around the globe, bringing local, regional, and global experience to bear on the management of client investments.

For more information please visit: https://timberlandinvestmentgroup.com/

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) is a global nonprofit with a mission to save wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature. The world's least degraded tropical forests keep our planet 0.5 degrees C cooler and their conservation save trillions of dollars in climate impacts for the global economy. But current nature finance systems are aimed at restoring heavily degraded, deforested areas or those that are at immediate threat of deforestation. It's time to turn our focus towards conserving the forests that are still in good condition. WCS is developing a new market that incentivizes the conservation of high integrity tropical forests and the benefits they provide.

For more information please visit: High Integrity Forest Investment Initiative - WCS.org