INVESTORS

  • Insurers

  • Pension funds

  • Multilateral development banks

  • Sovereign wealth funds

  • Retail investors

  • Impact investors

  • Asset managers

  • Family offices

  • Endowments & foundations

  • Corporations

  • Impact investors

  • Asset managers

  • Family offices

  • Endowments & foundations

  • Corporations

  • Insurers

  • Pension funds

  • Multilateral development banks

  • Sovereign wealth funds

  • Retail investors

A PURE-PLAY NATURE-POSITIVE INVESTMENT

Investors are increasingly seeking nature-positive investment vehicles that align with their own sustainability goals. Yet despite rising interest, the market has lacked instruments that allow direct, scalable investment into the full value of nature – including its intrinsic, ecosystem service, and option values.  

The opportunity is vast; however, investors need structured, transparent, and replicable mechanism to measure, account for, and then access that value.

NACs meet investors’ needs through an equity capital structure that fully values natural capital and delivers financial returns. NACs enable investors to:

  • Invest directly in nature with measurable climate, biodiversity, resiliency, and social impact

  • Convert natural capital into share capital through a unique equity structure

  • Utilize a transparent, auditable, and easily replicable financial reporting framework

  • Complement other nature-finance instruments, such as carbon or biodiversity credits

  • Earn market-rate returns through asset appreciation, cash-flow generation, growing market acceptance, and increased capital inflows

  • Access liquidity through secondary trading in private and, ultimately, public markets

NATURAL ASSET COMPANY INVESTMENT THESIS

RETURN PROFILE OF A NAC: Natural Asset Companies can generate returns in four principal ways:

  • Asset appreciation: Growth in the production of ecosystem services and/or the quality of the underlying natural asset due to active management

  • Cash flow generation: Ongoing income derived from the sale of ecosystem services, contracts, and/or sustainable operations

  • Market acceptance: Growing recognition, scientific certainty, and acceptance of the value of ecosystem services and NACs’ asset valuations in the market

  • Investor participation: Increased capital inflow from investors, driven by confidence in NACs’ long-term value, ease of trading, and greater liquidity

DEMAND DRIVERS: The return profile of a Natural Asset Company is amplified by four core demand drivers, each of which has a direct impact on potential for capital appreciation. The more these demand drivers mature, the more NACs can generate value.

  • Regulatory pressures: Evolving legislation related to carbon, biodiversity, and land restoration that requires compliance and costly reporting activities

  • Corporate resiliency: Prioritization of supply chain security and operational resiliency efforts to manage nature dependencies and vulnerabilities

  • Scarcity and resource value: Rising demand for ecosystem services (estimated 4% annual growth), given nature provides critical infrastructure for the global economy

  • Investment evolution: Need for a direct investment into nature that provides a market rate of return