Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund made its first US investment in forestry. The billion-dollar fund invested in EFM, a Portland-based firm that acquires forest properties …
Around 20% of the Amazon rainforest, one of the world’s largest carbon sinks, has been deforested and degraded. Experts worry the forest is …
The wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles for more than three weeks in January were an unseasonal fluke—and a signal of the more frequent …
The UK-based financial services firm has a $1 billion portfolio of impact products geared towards emerging markets. A new debt strategy focused on …
At last month’s COP16 in Rome, leaders from more than 140 countries agreed to mobilize $200 billion per year to reverse losses from …
Mammoth it is not. But Colossal Biosciences “woolly mouse” is an important step in the biotech startup’s plan to resurrect traits of the …
The Green Climate Fund is down but not out. Just days after President Trump rescinded the $4 billion pledged for the UN-backed fund …
In just a few years, the first woolly mammoths to live in more than 4,000 years may be taking their first tentative steps across …
Some 65% of African land is considered degraded. Climate-driven droughts and floods are exacerbating the impacts on local farmers and communities. Barka Fund, …
The South American country is one of the most biodiverse places in the world. Protracted economic, political and security crises have forced Ecuador …
In the wake of an agreement at the COP29 climate summit that was derided as woefully inadequate, mobilizing private climate capital is more …
The more than 400,000 people living across the 700 islands of the Caribbean country of the Bahamas depend on the health of their …
The conservation finance nonprofit Blue Forest teamed with Pheasants Forever, a habitat conservation nonprofit, to create a new financing mechanism for projects that …
HSBC and UK-based climate investor and advisor Pollination launched Climate Asset Management in 2020 to prove out the institutional investment case for protecting …
Incorporating both climate and gender angles in an investment thesis is table stakes for fund managers seeking to attract investors, one general partner …
São Paulo-based Systemica develops carbon credit-generating projects for biodiversity preservation and reforestation in South America. It has acquired Pará, Brazil-based forest management company …
The nine-year, principal-protected bond provides Nuveen, T Rowe Price, Velliv Pension, Mackenzie Investments and other investors with a coupon linked to the generation …
Indigenous communities steward 80% of the world’s biodiversity—a precious resource in the face of escalating climate change. But both Indigenous communities and nature …
Reefs are investable. As the value of the world’s disappearing coral reefs becomes abundantly clear, so too does the value of techniques and …
Timberland Investment Group, a division of Brazilian bank BTG Pactual, closed its inaugural Latin America timberland fund with $860 million in 2015. The …
South Pole appears to be steadying the ship after the fallout of an expose on “faulty credits” last March. The episode was a …
Paraguay is one of the poorest countries in South America. It also has one of the highest rates of tropical deforestation in the …
Tourism, a key source of livelihoods in communities in the Galapagos, also poses a major threat to the ecosystem’s stunning biodiversity. Quasar Expeditions …
The global economy is built on natural capital. Without an abundance of water, soil, and biological diversity, businesses and societies can’t function, much …
ImpactAlpha, December 7 – Gig Harbor, Wash.-based Russell Family Foundation has committed $3.5 million to sustainable forestry, green infrastructure and new food initiatives. …
ImpactAlpha, December 4 – Nonprofit Blue Forest partnered with World Resources Institute, the US Forest Service, and the National Forest Foundation five years …
ImpactAlpha, November 6 — Less than a decade ago, the number of ocean-focused impact funds could be counted on one hand. Now, a …
ImpactAlpha, October 10 — Vibrant Planet launched in 2020 in response to California’s escalating wildfire seasons. This year’s wildfire season broke records for …
ImpactAlpha, September 26 — Global conservationists and policymakers are working to develop an economically-viable market for biodiversity credits, also known as biocredits, to …
As world leaders gather in New York City this week for the UN General Assembly and New York Climate Week, investors and funders …
ImpactAlpha, September 7 — Bezos Earth Fund will deploy $22.8 million to fund the restoration of roughly 1.5 million acres of degraded land …
ImpactAlpha, August 25 — Nature-based solutions “could help reduce one-third of the necessary global emissions by the end of the decade, but remain …
ImpactAlpha, August 16 – Africa needs $250 billion a year to finance climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives. Yet the vast continent of nearly …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 10 – There was no grand pledge to halt deforestation, as Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had urged. Nor …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 9 – Less than 20 years ago, Keti Bandar, a coastal town in southeastern Pakistan, had barren shores. Today, it’s a …
ImpactAlpha, May 30 – Indonesia is among the world’s small number of “mega bio-diverse” countries – and has one of the world’s highest …
ImpactAlpha, April 18 – Wildfire intensity and damage is intensifying due to climate change. Flash Forest in Ontario is using drones to jumpstart …
ImpactAlpha, April 13 — A dozen finalists in the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge are swapping debt for nature, tracking water credits, insuring …
ImpactAlpha, April 11 — AGRI3 Fund has raised $13.5 million in equity funding from the Global Environment Facility, a multilateral trust fund based …
When Fred van Eck, a New York investment manager, purchased 9,400 acres of Northern California and Oregon forest for timber production in the …
What’s not to love about planting trees? Once considered a tried and true solution to the climate crisis, tree-growing has lately been given …
ImpactAlpha, March 8 – Reforestation in California. Mangrove restoration in Mexico. Regeneration of mining land in Jamaica. Colorado-based RenewWest is vetting, developing and …
ImpactAlpha, February 27 – Street demonstrations, populist leaders and economic strife dominate news headlines about Latin America. Less appreciated are the entrepreneurs who …
ImpactAlpha, February 14 – France and Morocco-based Sand to Green is completing a three-year sustainable agroforestry pilot that uses valuable crops, like rosemary …
ImpactAlpha, January 31 – Berlin and Cape Town-based Senken is a blockchain-based carbon credit trading platform. Its next offering is a form of …
