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 …
Cate Havstad-Casad launched Oregon-based Range Revolution four years ago after struggling to find local, sustainably-produced leather for her hat-making business. Range Revolution markets …
At a time when nature is coming under stress like never before, grasslands are both a resource and opportunity, one that stakeholders of …
At last month’s COP16 in Rome, leaders from more than 140 countries agreed to mobilize $200 billion per year to reverse losses from …
The Green Climate Fund is down but not out. Just days after President Trump rescinded the $4 billion pledged for the UN-backed fund …
Small farmers are collectively the largest landowners in Mexico. The founders of SVX Mexico two years ago set out to invest in agriculture …
This month, the European Parliament faced a pivotal vote and decided to delay the European Union Deforestation Regulation, or EUDR, by a year. …
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 …
Three institutional heavyweights are funding an initiative of Singapore-based Imperative to restore 250,000 acres of degraded land in South Africa’s Eastern and Western …
Reefs are investable. As the value of the world’s disappearing coral reefs becomes abundantly clear, so too does the value of techniques and …
ImpactAlpha, March 7 — Argentinian entrepreneur Emiliano Mroue founded Ghana-based Warc over a decade ago. The social enterprise serves roughly 20,000 smallholder farmers …
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, January 31 — San Francisco-based B Corp. Cultivo uses AI and satellites to pinpoint high-quality and investable nature-based projects. Cultivo develops sustainable …
ImpactAlpha, January 25 — QBE North America, a division of the Australian insurance giant, has launched a fund to offset risks and catalyze …
ImpactAlpha, January 11 — UK-based FA Bio has raised £5.3 million (close to $7 million) to sort microbes found in agricultural fields to …
If you think regenerative agriculture is merely an elite affectation of modern foodies, you might want to pay a visit to the 600-year-old …
ImpactAlpha, December 12 – Food, from farm to table, is responsible for nearly 40% of greenhouse gas emissions, due to carbon-intensive livestock rearing, …
ImpactAlpha, November 14 — Manulife Investment Management, part of Canadian insurance giant Manulife, is raising a $500 million fund to invest in timberlands …
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 4 — At One Ventures has backed 27 early-stage startups developing disruptive hardware and physical products from its inaugural $150 million …
ImpactAlpha, September 26 — Global conservationists and policymakers are working to develop an economically-viable market for biodiversity credits, also known as biocredits, to …
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 17 — San Francisco-based fund manager Farmland LP has acquired over 16,000 acres of conventional commercial farmland in Washington, Oregon and …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 9 – Less than 20 years ago, Keti Bandar, a coastal town in southeastern Pakistan, had barren shores. Today, it’s a …
ImpactAlpha, July 18 — Capturing carbon directly from the atmosphere will be necessary to reverse greenhouse gas emissions, the International Panel on Climate …
ImpactAlpha, April 28 – Root Capital calls them “climate action leaders.” World Resources Institute calls them “regeneration champions.” Pioneering small farmers, agri-businesses and …
ImpactAlpha, April 24 – Luxembourg’s ministry of finance has committed $25 million to BlueOrchard Finance’s Green Earth Impact Fund, which seeks to raise …
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, January 17 — Oakland-based Anew is the product of TPG Rise’s rollup last year of Element Markets and Bluesource (for background, see …
ImpactAlpha, November 4 — Demand is surging for high-quality nature-based carbon offsets, and developers are scrambling to supply them. Houston-based ZeroSix, formed by …
ImpactAlpha, October 20 — Nearly 10 million acres of forests in Africa, one of Earth’s most important carbon sinks and soil, are disappearing …
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 6 – Blockchain eco-warriors descended on Medellin, Colombia last week to stake a claim for the role the technology can play in …
ImpactAlpha, September 12 — Investing in sustainable and regenerative oceans is a multi-trillion-dollar global opportunity that could create 40 million jobs by 2030, …
ImpactAlpha, August 9 — More than 150 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean have been impacted by hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and …
ImpactAlpha, July 28 — Circulate Capital has been investing in recycling and waste-reduction efforts to keep plastic out of oceans and waterways since …
ImpactAlpha, July 8 — The aftershocks of the Supreme Court decision limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s powers to regulate greenhouse gasses are still …
ImpactAlpha, May 31 – India-based Aavishkaar Capital says it’s raising carbon fund of up to $500 million for investments in India, South Asia …
ImpactAlpha, May 31 — Biotech companies are promising to help farmers cut down on synthetic, and expensive, nitrogen fertilizer. San Carlos, Calif.-based Switch …
ImpactAlpha, May 18 — With $164 million in commitments, Michael Bloomberg’s foundation says it has helped close down more than two-thirds of coal …
ImpactAlpha, May 16 — Paris-based Tikehau Capital and AXA and U.K.-based Unilever are joining forces to launch a regenerative agriculture fund, which seeks …
ImpactAlpha, May 9 — Pachama, which uses satellite imaging and artificial intelligence to monitor carbon stored in forests, has raised $55 million in …
ImpactAlpha, May 5 — BlackRock and Singapore’s Temasek launched Decarbonization Partners last year with a combined $600 million commitment. Its first investment: MycoWorks, …
ImpactAlpha, May 3 — New York-based private equity firm Lightsmith Group raised $186 million to invest in companies with data and technology for …
ImpactAlpha, April 25 — New York-based Air Company uses only air, water and sunlight to transform captured carbon into carbon-negative spirits and other …
