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On October 29, 2021, the L’Oréal Fund for Nature Regeneration1 announced its support to in The Real Wild Estates Company, the UK’s first ecosystem and species restoration business with sustainable financial returns. This innovative model is expected to unlock private capital to accelerate rewilding in the UK and, ultimately, across Europe. L’Oréal’s impact investment strategy is operated by Mirova’s natural capital platform. A pioneering impact-investing company, Mirova gets involved in the seed phase to catalyse innovative and scalable Nature-Based Solutions2, creating value from carbon credits and payments for ecosystem services.
Mirova is one of only five companies that has consistently ranked in the H&K Responsible Investment Brand Index (RIBI™) Global Top 10 every year for the past four years. The RIBI™ has been developed to identify asset management companies that act as responsible investors and commit to sustainability by placing this concept at the heart of their identity and image: in their brand.
From 18 to 21 October 2021, the PRI Digital Conference was organised by the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), with the support of Natixis Investment Managers. Hervé Guez, Mirova's Head of Equity, Fixed Income and Social Impact Investing, was honoured to be invited to share his vision on the future of equity markets over the next ten years during a plenary session on 19 October.
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H2air and Mirova inaugurated the Œillets wind farm in Fourcigny (Somme), in the presence of the Mayor of the municipality Joël Gilbert and alongside residents and project stakeholders.
Ladislas Smia, Head of sustainability research at Mirova, has been selected to serve two years as Member of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure” (TNFD), along with 30 senior executives from financial institutions, corporates and market service providers.
In line with our commitment to continuously participate in initiatives pushing for action on biodiversity issues, we have joined the group of 78 financial institutions managing more than $10 trillion in assets that urge world governments to halt and reverse biodiversity loss and call for raising the ambition by setting specific targets for the financial sector supporting redirection of financial flows from nature harming to nature positives activities. Transition to a nature-positive economy could generate $10 trillion of annual business opportunities and nearly 400 million jobs by 20301 while fostering cobenefits in the fight against climate change considering the essential role of biodiversity in regulation of greenhouse gases fluxes.
Among the themes on which the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) World Conservation Congress focused, the need to transform the global financial system and direct investments into projects that benefit nature and biodiversity was largely addressed throughout the event.
