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  • Date 19 April 2024
  • Words by Ben O'Donnell
  • Reading time < 1 mins

Natural capital will become a fundamental component of investors’ portfolios

Natural capital offers investors the opportunity not only to generate long-term value from the finite and essential resources that support life on our planet, but also to manage them in a way that ensures the prosperity of those assets for future generations.

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This article by Ben O’Donnell, Chief Investment Officer of Climate Asset Management’s Natural Capital Strategy, was first published in Environmental Finance 16 April 2024.

It was a response to Peter Cripps’ (Editor of Environmental Finance) article: ‘Comment: Can natural capital become its own asset class?‘ which was first published 15 March 2024.

You can download a pdf copy of the article here or read both articles as they appeared in Environmental Finance using the links above.

Further reading:

Read Ben’s interview with Environmental Finance ‘Making the case for investment allocations to natural capital‘ first published in Environmental Finance’s Biodiversity Insight January 2024.

You can download a pdf copy here of the interview here

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