Partners

Sustainable forestry investments

Arbaro Advisors GmbH is an investment advisory company with a combination of expertise in impact investing and forestry management, which enables them to select and develop sustainable forestry investments that maximize environmental, social, and economic benefits for all stakeholders.

RSCF is supporting Arbaro Advisors to develop the pipeline of projects of the Arbaro Fund, a private equity fund that invests in sustainable forestry in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa. By establishing a renewable resource through sustainably managed, FSC-certified forest plantations, Arbaro provides significant climate change mitigation and adaptation benefits in its target countries.

Over its lifetime, Arbaro aims to contribute to sequestering up to 20 million tons of CO₂, creating up to 5,000 new jobs and contributing to knowledge and skill development in the rural areas in which it operates. This combination of environmental and social benefits makes an Arbaro Fund investment a generator of positive impact on both a local and a global level while earning solid financial returns.

Agroforestry joint ventures with cooperatives

Ecotierra is a project developer and investment adviser to the Urapi Sustainable Land Use Fund. Ecotierra has over 20 years of experience implementing innovative land-use models that improve farmers’ revenues and livelihoods while restoring and protecting the ecosystems in which they produce.

The Urapi Fund aims to triple the household incomes of producers forming part of the cooperatives the Fund partners with. It is further anticipated that 200 jobs will be created and 25,000 hectares will be reforested through the Fund’s investments. Overall, the impact of the funded projects will lead to over 7 million tons in captured and reduced CO₂ emissions.

RSCF is supporting Ecotierra to broaden the Urapi Fund’s investment scope of geographies and project types and accelerate the process of identification and development of investment opportunities with positive contributions to forest restoration.

Nature based investments

New Forests is a global investment manager of nature-based real assets and natural capital strategies with USD 6.85 billion of assets under management. New Forests manages a diversified portfolio of sustainable timber plantations and conservation areas, carbon and conservation finance projects, agriculture, timber processing and infrastructure.

RSCF is supporting New Forests to develop the pipeline of investments under the Tropical Asia Forestry Fund 2 (TAFF 2), which focuses on sustainable forest management in Southeast Asia. Through a dedicated impact tranche, the fund will further invest in activities that will enhance its positive climate, biodiversity and livelihood impacts.

Large scale nature based solutions

Shared Wood Company (SWC) is a French investment management company that sources, designs, and operates large-scale nature-based solutions projects in Africa, Latin America and Europe to tackle biodiversity loss, climate change and rural poverty.

RSCF is supporting SWC in their development of investments focusing on forest & biodiversity conservation, sustainable restoration of degraded lands and sustainable forestry and agroforestry value chains. Through their operations, SWC aims to sequester or avoid carbon emissions equivalent to at least 40 million tons of CO₂ equivalent, restore at least 40,000 ha land, protect 500,000 ha of endangered ecosystems and improve the livelihoods of an estimated 30,000 farmers.