All Biodiversity articles
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Special Reports
Carbon credits: Forestry fund managers juggle corporate and investor objectives
Tech giants add to growing demand for carbon offsets. Florence Chong reports
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Special Reports
Holistic natural capital strategies take shape in investors’ minds
Asset class, built on a bedrock of sustainable forestry and agriculture, begins to emerge
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Special Reports
Stafford Capital: Taking the (carbon) credit
Secondaries specialist Stafford Capital has expanded into the carbon credits market through new afforestation strategies. Florence Chong speaks to CEO Angus Whiteley
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Special Reports
Campbell Global: Headed for the trees
CEO John Gilleland tells Christopher Walker why institutional investors will continue to take cover in timberland
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Special Reports
The birth of a biodiversity credits market?
Florence Chong explores the early progress being made to amid urgent need for ‘nature repair’
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Special Reports
Agriculture specialist Cibus Capital mulls move into carbon credits
Florence Chong speaks to consultant investment director Damon Petrie
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Special Reports
Regenerative agriculture: Back to life
Institutional investment managers are taking a lead role in the urgent need for regenerative farming
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Special Reports
New Forests: Ploughing a new furrow in agriculture
Fifth-placed New Forests has big plans for its agriculture arm. Florence Chong speaks to head of New Agriculture Bruce King
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Opinion Pieces
IPE Real Assets January/February 2025: A year of climate and political risk?
As fires spread across the Los Angeles metropolitan area in California in early January, scientists confirmed that 2024 had been the hottest year on record
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News
AP Pension, PensionDanmark work on biodiversity standard for building sector
Danish pension funds’ real estate units link with Planetary Responsibility to establish measurement methods
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Interviews
Gresham House's Olly Hughes makes the case for sustainable timber
The Gresham House managing director warns against overlooking sustainable timber amid today’s new wave of natural capital. Interview by Lauren Mills
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Analysis
COP16: Indigenous peoples and businesses both vital to biodiversity conservation
The recent COP16 in Colombia emphasised the dual importance of indigenous peoples and businesses in biodiversity conservation. Christopher Walker reports
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News
Panattoni partners with Environment Bank for biodiversity at Crawley site
Environment Bank is supplying off-site biodiversity units from its dedicated habitat banks
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News
IPE RA Infra Conference: Investors debate benefits and evolution of natural capital
Low correlation and diversification benefits cited as major drivers for allocations
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Interviews
Will the EU’s Nature Restoration Law open up new natural capital investments?
Christopher Walker explores what the new law could mean for institutional investors
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Opinion Pieces
IPE Real Assets July/August 2024: The links between energy, data and nature
Assets under management (AUM) of the 100 largest infrastructure investment managers have risen to €2.2trn – from €1.98trn last year – according to the latest IPE Real Assets ranking. The industry is consolidating as well, led by the ongoing merger of BlackRock and Global Infrastructure Partners, which – based on current figures – would create a giant with more than €150bn in infrastructure AUM.
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Special Reports
Nuveen: Writing the textbook on optimising land use
Martin Davies tells Florence Chong about the need for a holistic approach to land-based investments
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Special Reports
What the biodiversity agenda means for forestry and agriculture
Biodiversity is rising up the agenda of institutional investors. Christopher Walker explores what it means for forestry and agriculture
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Magazine
Biodiversity and the built environment
In the third of a series of biodiversity articles, John Fernández and Thomas Wiegelmann highlight strategies that real estate investors can deploy on plots of land, buildings or neighbourhoods
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News
Gresham House secures £80m from Bedfordshire and Staffordshire pensions
This interim close brings the total capital raised for BSIF and its side-car funds to more than £400m