The fund class was established a couple of years ago as a complementary offering to the long-established Guernsey Green Fund, which was an innovator in its time, offering the world\u2019s first regulated and certified sustainable investment fund. <\/p>\n
The natural capital fund regime provides a regulated designation for investment schemes that make a positive contribution to the natural world or significantly reduce harm to nature.<\/p>\n
The new fund from specialist alternative investment manager Gresham House, which has long used Guernsey structures for its investment funds, will invest in large\u2011scale habitat creation and ecological restoration projects known as \u2018habitat banks\u2019 which support compliance with England\u2019s 2024 biodiversity net gain regulations, an emerging natural capital asset class that enables biodiversity to be restored at scale.<\/p>\n
Gresham House\u2019s natural capital strategy, spans sustainable forestry, sustainable agriculture and nature-based solutions. The company is positioned in the top 10 globally of natural capital managers.<\/p>\n
\u2018The Guernsey Natural Capital Fund designation shows our commitment to supporting investment in nature at scale,\u2019 said Peter Bachmann, managing director of sustainable infrastructure at Gresham House. <\/p>\n
\u2018Our biodiversity creation strategy demonstrates Gresham House\u2019s contribution to the transition to a nature positive economy by protecting and restoring biodiversity while generating returns for our investors, and we are proud to receive this world-first designation.\u2019<\/p>\n
Guernsey\u2019s natural capital fund regime is the world\u2019s first regulated natural capital and biodiversity investment fund designation and provides investors with confidence through clear governance, transparency and robust oversight, that contributes to the internationally agreed objective of abating natural capital loss.<\/p>\n
\u2018Guernsey provides an exceptional environment for innovative investment structures,\u2019 said Paul Duquemin, independent non-executive director of Gresham House\u2019s Guernsey-based management company.<\/p>\n
\u2018The island\u2019s regulatory framework, professional expertise and focus on sustainable finance were important factors in the decision to domicile this fund in Guernsey.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fund class was established a couple of years ago as a complementary offering to the long-established Guernsey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}