Investor

AxialPar

Brazil

AxialPar is a private equity company investing in businesses dedicated to the development of environmentally sound socially responsible and economically profitable products and services. Partners and the team of AxialPar believe in the compatibility of profitability and sustainability aiming at the balance between economic growth mankind and the environment. AxialPar is a Katoomba Group member.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: Brazil

Impact: Access to Financial Services

Investor

Brushy Creek Conservation Bank

United States of America

Brushy Creek Conservation Bank is a mitigation bank with 120 acres in Contra Costa County, California serving the Burrowing Owl.

Type:

Geography: United States of America

Impact:

Investor

Climate Neutral Group

South Africa

Climate Neutral Group is a Dutch organization established by the Face Foundation and Triodo Bank to supply CO2 credits to businesses through sustainable forestry projects. The website includes an online CO2 meter to measure company emissions associated with driving and flying as well as information on programs to reduce emissions and receive carbon credits.

Type: Other Capital Channels & Intermediaries

Geography: South Africa

Impact: Access to Energy

Investor

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

New Zealand

The Commonwealth Bank is an Australian financial institutions with businesses in New Zealand Asia and the United Kingdom. The Bank provides banking and financial services for Australians. They also support a range of programs that protect Australia's habitat and are undertaking a number of programs to improve the environmental performance of operations. The Commonwealth Bank is a Katoomba Group member.

Type: Bank

Geography: Australia and New Zealand

Impact: Access to Financial Services

Investor

EA Capital

United Kingdom of Great Britai

EA Capital LLC is a merchant bank specialized in private equity investments in technology IT and the Internet that increase resource efficiency and productivity in the energy water agriculture transportation and forest product industries. EA Capital provides its clients with investment banking venture capital fund management and strategic advisory services to help them capitalize on these investment opportunities. EA Capital is a Katoomba Group member.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: China

Impact: Access to Financial Services

Investor

Environmental Financial Products, L.L.C.

United States of America

Environmental Financial Products L.L.C. (EFP) specializes in developing and trading in new environmental financial and commodity markets. Environmental Financial also designs risk management and hybrid financial instruments that enhance the interrelationships between the capital commodity and environmental markets. Environmental Financial has been both a market designer and market participant. Members of the Environmental Financial team played a role in the design and implementation of the SO2 emission allowance market and have traded SO2 and CO2 offsets as both principal and agent. The firm also provides advisory services focused on monetizing emission reductions energy efficiency improvements and carbon sequestration and managing exposure to environmental energy and financial risks.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: United States of America

Impact: Access to Energy

Investor

Global Environment Fund

Brazil

Global Environment Fund (GEF) is an international investment management firm established in 1990 to invest in and provide management support to companies that make positive contributions to environmental quality human health and the sustainable management of natural resources. The Firm's investments focus especially on companies whose business operations deliver measureable environmental improvements through deployment of improved environmental infrastructure and clean technologies. GEF's investment objective is to provide superior returns by harnessing the power of technological innovation to promote energy sources and means of production that are cleaner cheaper more efficient and more sustainable. GEF is a Katoomba Group member.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography: South Africa

Impact: Access to Financial Services

Investor

New Ventures

United States

New Ventures a World Resources Institute (WRI) initiative is a collaborative effort in Latin America to connect investors with sustainable business leaders. New Ventures is helping to meet the demand for profitable investments that meet social and environmental criteria by identifying promising enterprises providing business mentoring services and introducing entrepreneurs to potential investors. New Ventures is growing the pipeline of sustainable businesses in Latin America and building local capacity to support hundreds of entrepreneurs in the region.

Type:

Geography: United States of America

Impact:

Investor

Orchard Creek Conservation Bank

Orchard Creek Conservation Bank is 632 Acres in Placer County California and sells vernal pool credits.

Type:

Geography:

Impact:

Investor

Pope Ranch Conservation Bank

United States of America

Pope Ranch Conservation Bank is 391 Acres in Yolo County California selling conservation credits in the Giant Garter Snake.

Type:

Geography:

Impact:

Investor

Rancho Jamul Mitigation Bank

Rancho Jamul Mitigation Bank is 250 acres in San Diego County California selling credits in Least Bell's Vireo Freshwater Wetlands and Riparian Habitat.

Type:

Geography:

Impact:

Investor

Terra Capital Fund

The Terra Capital Fund is a US$15 million private equity fund that invests in and catalyzes private enterprises that generate conservation benefits through sustainable use of biodiversity in Latin American countries which have ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity. Terra Capital's underlying premise is that private sector participation in the sustainable use of biodiversity is indispensable for its long term conservation. By developing economic value from biodiversity the users and owners of biodiversity will have an incentive to protect these assets in the long run. Terra Capital's commercial objective is to realize long term capital appreciation through equity or quasi equity investments in biodiversity benefiting enterprises and thereby demonstrate to entrepreneurs and investors that such enterprises present viable opportunities.

Type: Investment Fund Manager

Geography:

Impact: