Sustainability Community webinar: Biodiversity - how to invest with purpose and positive returns

Wednesday 16 October 2024 | 13:00 - 13:50 | Webinar

This event has been organised by the CFA UK Sustainability Community.

Governments, industry and investors are increasingly recognising the importance of biodiversity and nature for maintaining resilient ecosystems. Investors can play a critical role in supporting sustainable practices. 

Understand biodiversity and practical steps investors can take to assess, engage, set measurable sustainability targets and make informed decisions.

Hosted by the Sustainability Community, this webinar brings you insights from Ruth Murray, Investment Director, Gresham House. Gresham House is a significant investor in nature projects. Ruth will share her insights on the projects they have done recently. 

Learn from Ruth about:

• Gresham House’s approach to biodiversity investing and why they care

• Challenges and solutions around investing in biodiversity including assessment and financial quantification

• How to manage nature / environment investment funds

• A real-life project on how to successfully invest in biodiversity and do good while maintaining returns

Timings

Registration: 12:55 
Event: 13:00 - 13:50

Speaker

Ruth Murray, Investment Director, Gresham House

Ruth is an Investment Director in the Gresham House Sustainable Infrastructure Team.  Ruth has been with Gresham House since 2020. The move to asset management marked a career change for Ruth who was previously a senior partner in a top 100 law firm leading the Energy, Waste and Projects teams. The Sustainable Infrastructure team manage the BSIF Funds’ strategies, investing in new Sustainable Infrastructure that can support and accelerate the changes and innovative solutions required to address key environmental and societal challenges whilst also delivering attractive returns.

Ruth is the co-fund manager of the Gresham House Biodiversity Co-Invest strategy, a dedicated vehicle to fund portfolio company, Environment Bank in establishing biodiversity rich habitat banks across England, catalysed by the introduction of mandatory biodiversity net gain for planning permissions under the Environment Act 2021.  Ruth is a director of Environment Bank and two of the BSIF Funds’ waste portfolio companies.

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