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When it comes to climate - related investments , the king of beasts ’s percentage has gone to companies work in vigour and transportation . Most investors overlook actual lions — that is , nature - based solutions like biodiversity tend to get brusque shrift in the investment public . Just$35 billionwas invest in nature - base solutions in 2022 , compared with$1.46 trillionfor the rest of the climate finance sector .
To address the shortage , Just Climatehas raised $ 175 million from Microsoft ’s Climate Innovation Fund and CalSTRS .
Just Climate is an branch ofAl Gore ’s Generation Investment Management . Until this year , it had focused on what it calls industrial climate solution , much like most other private mood tech investor .
The new stock will pore on natural climate solution , which could let in everything from husbandry to forestry . Nature - base solutions speech nursery gas source that typically go down under agriculture , forestry , and realm - use change , which together representabout 15%of one-year global emissions .
But nature - ground solutions can also eliminate carbon dioxide that ’s already in the atmosphere . Reforestation projects develop novel Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree on devalued demesne , sequestering carbon paper in the Natalie Wood . For example , Microsoft recently invested in one such inauguration , Chestnut Carbon .
The new fund aims to restore nature to invert biodiversity loss and emissions from realm use . The house cites a few exercise of potential investments , including biologic fertilizers and pesticides , restoration finance platforms , and technologies that avow C reduction and biodiversity trade protection .
Just Climate ’s first investing , made in January , led a Series B support round in NatureMetrics . The company determines the biodiversity of a site by surveying what ’s have it away as eDNA , or environmental DNA , which is free - floating desoxyribonucleic acid found in water or soil samples .
