Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. From seabed to space we have worked with our clients to help shape the world for almost 50 years, pioneering the delivery of complex, mission-critical systems. We have decades of experience doing complex things well around the globe. Operating a metro market model focussed around our clients, with local teams building trusted relationships.
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Bidwells is a leading real estate adviser, specialising in the UK’s most pioneering sectors: science & technology, sustainability, and modern living solutions. As the first multi-disciplinary property consultancy in the UK to achieve B Corp certification, Bidwells delivers sustainable and innovative property advice nationwide to meet the evolving demands of new technology, climate change, and client needs. For decades, Bidwells has shaped the UK’s science & technology real estate and renewables sectors and established a strong presence in needs-based asset classes, such as operational living. Today, a team of 600+ experts manage over £5.2 billion in property assets and provides management or advisory services for over 4 million acres of the UK’s countryside and coastline. Established in 1839, Bidwells has retained many of its original clients and works with some of the biggest landowners in the UK. Partnering with visionary clients and top talent, Bidwells leads in the sectors that will transform the future of the environment and enhance the quality of life for communities across the UK.
For more information, please visit www.bidwells.co.uk
ISS STOXX GmbH, through its group companies, is a leading provider of comprehensive and data-centric research and technology solutions that help capital market participants identify investment opportunities, detect qualitative and quantitative portfolio company risks, and meet evolving regulatory requirements. With roots dating back to 1985, we today deliver world-class benchmark and custom indices across asset classes and geographies and serve as a premier source of independent corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence research, data, and related offerings. Our products and services give clients the scale and leverage they need to grow their business more effectively and efficiently.
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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.
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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.
CreditNature is a Nature FinTech company with a mission to mobilise private investment into nature restoration to support resilient rural economies and to help progressive corporates evidence nature-positive commitments. Our platform helps landowners unlock the value of their land's natural assets and provides companies with credible, data-backed evidence of their nature commitments.
Finance Earth is the UK’s leading environmental impact investment advisor and fund manager, with a mission to mobilise finance for nature, climate, and communities. We work in partnership with world-leading environmental organisations, governments, and aligned corporates to protect and restore nature utilising market-based mechanisms and implementing bespoke financial tools. We provide regulated financial advisory and fund management services focused on scaling high-integrity conservation investment to close the global biodiversity funding gap. Finance Earth’s team has structured over £1 billion of financing mechanisms for projects that generate high-impact environmental and social benefit, both in the UK and internationally. As an employee-owned social enterprise, Finance Earth ensures that 51% of its profits are channelled back into the environmental sector.
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.
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.
MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.
For more information, please visit https://www.msci.com/
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.
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.
The Molpus Woodlands Group, LLC (Molpus), an SEC registered investment adviser, acquires, manages, and sells timberland as an investment vehicle for pension funds, college endowments, foundations, insurance companies, and high-net-worth individual investors. Molpus currently manages over 1.7 million acres of timberland investments in 15 states.
The Landbanking Group is a Munich-based Nature Fintech building the infrastructure for a nature-based economy. The natural capital management platform Landler, created by The Landbanking Group, allows land stewards to be rewarded for positive nature outcomes, or uplifts, and businesses to invest into positive nature impacts.
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