** 🌎Private investment in Nature-based solutions (“NbS”) – one of the keys to accelerate the green transition 🌿**
Was delighted yesterday to moderate the 10th edition of the “Value & Transformation” series by Amala Partners, SINGULIER & Omada with the co-founders of France Valley, an asset management company specialising in natural assets, with 42,000 hectares and over 350 #forests in France and Europe.
According to @#unep nearly $7 trillion is invested globally each year in activities that have a direct negative impact on nature from both public and private sector sources – that’s 7% of global GDP. In 2022, investments in nature-based solutions totalled approximately $200 billion, but finance flows to activities directly harming nature were more than 30 times larger (#COP28 State of Finance for Nature report by UNEP & partners).
💵💲To reverse nature-negative finance flows, investors need to see the tangible financial benefits of natural solutions. Pioneering companies like France Valley address this. With a client base of institutional investors, family offices, private banks, and savers, France Valley constructs and manages forestry, vineyards, agricultural and real estate investment solutions, offering capital gains and yields.
When Guillaume Toussaint ex-investment banker & Arnaud FILHOL former auditor & consultant, founded FV in 2010, in France, no investment solution for savers and professionals in natural assets existed - they started from scratch. ➡️ Today they operate in 10 countries, have 40 employees, and 4.2 billion euros in assets under management (*), with a "retail" model that operates like a “SCPI” (Civil Real Estate Investment Company); fundraising from individuals through wealth management channels.
“We have industrialised the process of making assets that are difficult to acquire and manage directly accessible to investors,” they explained.
🌲🌳🍇The assets are managed with a ‘reasoned’ approach that favours sustainable exploitation methods. To replace tree populations, FV work in coordination with forestry operators, choosing species capable of adapting to climate change, managing without clear-cutting, improving biodiversity, and increasing carbon absorption capacity. The value of these assets increases by 4 to 6% each year, with a growing demand for wood (notably for more sustainable construction) and forests as assets. They offer protection against inflation and enhance the value of the land and the wood stock, and, of course, also work as carbon sinks.
Always a privilege, through my numerous work assignments, to expand my knowledge of new sectors and thus my understanding of unfolding economic trends and meet inspiring entrepreneurs at the forefront of change and innovation. With thanks to our guests, Amala, Singulier, Omada Jean-Michel Cagin Rémi Pesseguier Nizar CHAYEB
