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Featured: Conservation Finance

A $160 million revolving loan fund to support conservation and public access in national forests. The US’s 154 public national forests play a crucial role in the preservation of biodiversity, clean water and public access to nature. Scattered within 193 million acres of national forestland are privately-owned parcels totaling 30 million acres. The US Forest Service acquires these privately-held parcels to increase the connectivity and contiguity of national forests, but the process can take as long as a decade. “Important conservation lands are lost to development,” Kavita Kapur Macleod and Phoebe Higgins of the Environmental Policy Innovation Center and Lyme Timber’s Liz Adams and Peter Stein write in a guest post. “The extensive waiting period often leads to missed opportunities, as landowners may not be able to wait on federal bureaucracy.” Their solution: Bridge financing to help conservation groups acquire large tracts of land from private owners and sell them to the Forest Service. 

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Sustainable data center ventures in Brazil and Spain land funding to scale. Data centers are hot – and getting hotter. The bigger, more powerful facilities being built to support artificial intelligence require a lot of energy and water to cool their computer servers. Among those racing to make the resource guzzlers more climate friendly are startups Scala Data Centers of Brazil and Spain’s Submer. Sao Paulo-based Scala snagged $550 million from New York-based Coatue Management’s Tactical Solutions Fund and the Investment Management Corp. of Ontario. In Barcelona, Submer raised $55.5 million in Series C financing to develop what it calls “waterless data centers.” The deal was led by London-based investment manager M&G, alongside Mundi Ventures of Madrid and prior backers Planet First Partners and Norrsken VC.

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