Investing to enhance and restore our natural capital​

We help our clients enhance and restore the world’s natural capital. We do this by investing in nature-based solutions to help support climate goals, protect ecosystems, and promote human wellbeing and biodiversity. Returns are generated from timber, carbon, land appreciation and associated nature-based revenues. 

Enabling a tangible path to net zero

Residual carbon is inevitable in virtually all operational businesses. Nature-based carbon-removal solutions are key enablers to reach net-zero ambitions. They can be used in partnership with operational decarbonisation by corporates, public institutions and pension funds.

Measured positive nature and social impacts

Investments in natural capital can drive sustainable economic growth by creating green jobs and income for those often living in rural areas. Moreover, investing in nature-based solutions supports diverse species and enhances resilience by protecting and restoring ecosystems.

 

Diversification and alternative green investments

Natural capital assets provide sustainable, long-term returns through diversified income streams, including land value appreciation and the sale of ecosystem services such as carbon credits and timber. They also exhibit low correlation with traditional asset classes, helping to reduce overall portfolio volatility. 

Creating value for and from nature

Our team’s technical expertise combines a deep understanding of private-market investments, net-zero pathways, carbon markets and nature-based solutions. We follow deep due diligence processes to deploy capital into high-integrity natural-capital projects and nature-based solutions. We focus on targeted locations and project types, gaining deep knowledge of local markets and building strong relationships with development partners to create diversified portfolios of assets. 

We also engage actively, both domestically and internationally, through our macro stewardship teams to ensure policy conditions support the prioritisation and scale-up of nature restoration and recovery.

Note: Targets and outcomes are not guaranteed and may not be achieved.

The circle of investments in nature

We rely on nature and its ecosystem services. By improving and restoring our natural capital stocks, investing in nature-based projects brings value to society. Carbon, timber and other commodities are the market mechanisms that assign value to these ecosystem services, making them investable.

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Key risks

Investment and currency risk

The value of an investment and any income from it can go down as well as up and can fluctuate in response to changes in currency and exchange rates. Investors may not get back the original amount invested.

Illiquid securities risk

Certain assets held in the fund could, by nature, be hard to value or to sell at a desired time or at a price considered to be fair (especially in large quantities), and as a result their prices could be very volatile.

Sustainability risk

The level of sustainability risk to which the fund is exposed, and therefore the value of its investments, may fluctuate depending on the investment opportunities identified by the investment manager.

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Meet our natural capital investment team.

  • Greta Talbot-Jones

    Director, Natural Capital / Portfolio Manager, Carbon Removal Fund

  • Zoe Austin

    Portfolio manager

  • Kiran Sehra

    Nature Specialist

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