Joining forces to accelerate investment in natural capital: investors are committed to raising higher levels of private capital to help protect and restore nature.

As the international community continues to tackle the two-fold climate and biodiversity crisis, interest is growing in investing for the management and preservation of natural capital. This trend is seen as an obvious solution to reduce emissions, restore biodiversity and stimulate sustainable and job-creating economic growth. However, only a limited number of initiatives, aimed at promoting nature as an investment opportunity, have been set up to date. And yet, half of the world’s GDP depends on natural capital.

The Natural Capital Investment Alliance was launched at the One Planet Summit for Biodiversity, in January 2021. The Alliance’s aim is to work with the asset management industry, an industry worth 120,000 billion dollars, and to raise private capital in a practical and effective manner, in favour of natural capital investment opportunities.

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"Nature’s contribution to the global economy is estimated to be worth more than $125 trillion annually – greater than the entire world’s annual G.D.P. If we build conservation and nature-based solutions into our asset base and supply chains we will be able to drive significant economic growth for countries and businesses alike – including in areas such as the circular bioeconomy, ecotourism and green public infrastructure."
 

His Royal Highness King Charles III

The Alliance, created as part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative launched by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, was co-founded by HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management, Lombard Odier and Mirova.

Its aim is to complement existing initiatives and to create a stronger relationship between public sector and civil society experts in natural capital on the one hand and traditional investors on the other.

The Alliance has set itself the objective of raising more than $10 billion by the end of 2022. It will serve as an investment platform for companies and financial institutions seeking to increase their investment in natural capital, to support the restoration of biodiversity, especially via carbon offsets.


Alliance members also wish to share their investment knowledge and expertise, so that natural capital can become an investment theme in its own right.

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Raising 10 billion dollars by the end of 2022

The idea is to demonstrate the scalability of dedicated investment vehicles and the large number of investment opportunities available, for all asset classes. This work relies on the individual and joint initiatives taken by founding members, such as Mirova’s dedicated Natural Capital Platform (https://www.mirova.com/fr/investir/capital-naturel), HSBC Pollination’s dedicated natural capital fund (https://www.assetmanagement.hsbc.fr/fr/professional-investors/investment-expertise/sustainable-investments/climateassetmanagement ) and Lombard Odier’s Natural Capital strategy (https://www.lombardodier.com/fr/contents/corporate-news/media-releases/2020/november/lombard-odier-launches-natural-c.html).

 

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The Alliance was created at the initiative of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, as part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative (https://www.sustainable-markets.org/).

Its founding members, HSBC Pollination Climate Asset Management, Lombard Odier and Mirova, work hand in hand with the Sustainable Markets Initiative to structure the Alliance’s activities.

At COP26 in Glasgow, His Royal Highness King Charles III announced that 12 additional members had joined the alliance, bringing the total to 15.