Capital for Climate

Our Brazil NbS Investment Collaborative member, Patria Investments, was featured on February 13th at the annual “New Green Shoots” webinar organized by United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), the Finance for Biodiversity Foundation and EU Business and Biodiversity platform. The webinar showcased recent innovations in finance for positive outcomes on nature, and Patria Investments’s Virgínia Guazzelli spoke about their Brazil Reforestation Fund as a prime example of the available opportunities for large scale international investors. Patria is the largest alternative assets manager in Latin America with over US$43 billion AUM, and the Fund is developed with Pachama, a leading project development tech company based in Silicon Valley. You can watch the recording using the link below: For more context, you read Scaling Nature Finance Now: Opportunities for Investors in Brazil and Beyond report co-authored with IFACC and the Climate Champions Team. Linked here: https://lnkd.in/eebeFxpr

In this week's issue of the Climate Investment Newsletter: Ambipar completes a $400 million green bond raise, Manulife closes a $480 million forest climate fund, Ecocem Global invests $52 million in low carbon cement, Sweden awards Stockholm Exergi $1.8 billion to develop BECCS, Canada releases new protocols for DAC credits, Bloomberg NEF finds the world passed $2 trillion in transition finance investments in 2024, and more! Subscribe to get this email in your inbox every week.

Catch up on the deals and stories you missed last week in our latest edition of the Climate Investment Newsletter. In this issue: Norsk Hydro issues $525 million in green bonds, Allianz and the European Investment Bank (EIB) close a $468.2 million EM climate fund, BNP Paribas Asset Management closes a $187.5 million climate fund, the Race to Belem initiative launches in Brazil, Indonesia opens its carbon exchange to international buyers, Bloomberg agrees to cover the U.S's UNCCCD contributions during the 2nd Trump Administration, a new report explores the carbon storage potential of European ecosystems, and more. Subscribe to get the email in your inbox every week.

In this week's Climate Investment Newsletter: New Forests raises $376 million for its landscape forestry fund, The U.S DOE LPO works to finalize grants ahead of the new administration, NatureMetrics raises $25 million for biodiversity data technology, Google signs a 200,000 metric ton carbon removal deal, UNEP publishes a report on nature-related banking regulations, The Bank of China joins the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and more. Subscribe to get the newsletter in your inbox every week.

In this week's climate investment newsletter: Constellation buys Calpine in a $29 billion deal, The World Bank issues a $1 billion Australian dollar denominated sustainable development bond, White Summit Capital secures $360 million for its infrastructure decarbonization fund, The Biden Administration bans oil and gas leasing across 625 million acres of coastal water, more banks leave the NZBA, Rhodium Group finds U.S. Emissions were almost flat in 2024, and more. Subscribe to get the email in your inbox every week!

Capital for Climate is excited to invite our friends who will be in Davos for the World Economic Forum to a special event: Tropical forest restoration as a critical lever to a net-zero economy: The Case of Brazil 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM 📍 Venue: Brazil House - Promenade 61, Davos Platz 7270 👥 Audience: Up to 40 high-level stakeholders, Entry is subject to venue capacity. 🌐 Language: English 🔍 About the Session: This panel will highlight Nature-Based Solutions (NbS), focusing on tropical forest restoration as a key component in the transition to a net-zero economy. Join leaders from academia, the private sector, and civil society to explore Brazil’s role and the opportunities and challenges in this sector. 🔔 RSVP by January 17, 2025: This event was made possible by our partnerships with Instituto Arapyaú, Brazil Climate Institute (BCI), Converge Capital, @Climate Hub, Columbia Global Center Rio, Institute for Climate and Society (iCS) and re.green. Please confirm your participation by completing the registration link below:

Capital for Climate is excited to invite our friends who will be in Davos for the World Economic Forum to a special event featuring our cofounder Tony Lent: COP30 in Brazil: context, expectations and key milestones on the road to Belém 2025. 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 2:30 PM–4:30 PM 📍 Venue: SDG Tent (Hotel National, Obere Strasse 31, 7270 Davos Platz) 👥 Audience: Up to 40 high-level stakeholders, entry is subject to venue capacity. 🌐 Language: English 🔍 About the Session: This panel will discuss the context and key milestones leading up to COP30 in 2025, which will be held in Belém, at the heart of the Amazon. Experts and decision-makers will come together to debate the expected outcomes and challenges surrounding the event, which is of critical importance for global climate action. 🔔 RSVP by January 17, 2025: This event was made possible by our partnerships with Instituto Arapyaú, Brazil Climate Institute (BCI), Converge Capital, Climate Hub, Columbia Global Center Rio, Institute for Climate and Society (iCS) and re.green. Please confirm your participation by completing the registration link below:

Catch up on 3 weeks of climate deals and stories in our first newsletter of 2025! In this week's issue: South Korea pledges $309 billion in green finance by 2030, the USDA finalizes $4.4 billion in rural clean energy funding, Crusoe completes a $600 million funding round for clean-energy powered AI, 360 Capital raises $144 million for a new climate fund, the Global Environment Facility approves 2 new investment tranches in nature and biodiversity, Brazil demarcates 13 indigenous territories, more members depart the NZBA, IPBES releases a new report on the global biodiversity crisis, and more. Be sure to subscribe to get the newsletter in your inbox every week.

Capital for Climate is honored to be a finalist for the World Economic Forum's GAEA awards, together with our partners Ambition Loop and The UN High-Level Climate Champions. Our Climate Investment Engine solution is a radical collaboration bringing together the partners' distinct capabilities to convert climate and nature finance commitments into high impact commercial deployments -- at scale. The Engine starts with a focus on Nature-based Solutions - mobilizing private, public and philanthropic capital to accelerate NbS sector scale-up, including at least $5B by COP 30, using our Brazil NbS Investment Collaborative and NbS 360 services to develop an organized NbS investment pipeline in Brazil. Our Co-founder, Tony Lent will be in Davos for the awards ceremony and will be happy to arrange 1:1 meetings with nature-focused institutional investors, family offices, philanthropies and other partners interested to collaborate with the Climate Investment Engine to accelerate the climate/nature transition. Reach out to us on LinkedIn, or send us an email at contact@capitalforclimate.com to set up a meeting.

**TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT** Capital for Climate is thrilled to welcome Akshay Sriprasad as our new Chief Commercial Officer. Akshay joins us from Google, where he was responsible for building and scaling AI-powered sustainability products globally. What really stood out to us was his intense dedication to solving real, critical pain points for customers to unlock climate impact at scale. As an experienced investor himself, he empathizes with the challenges of capital allocation and realizing real double bottom lines. We’re grateful he’s joining us on our mission to mobilize billions into critical climate sectors, starting with Nature-based Solutions. Please get in touch if you’d like to learn more about how Capital for Climate can accelerate your climate investment roadmap.