Althelia

Overview

Althelia Ecosphere is an asset management business focussing on designing and deploying innovative financing solutions that enable a transition towards sustainable management of the earth's finite ecosystem-based resources such as agricultural landscapes, forests and coastal environments. We work by linking sources of capital with activities on the ground that deliver outcomes that unify economic, social and environmental improvements, generating competitive returns alongside measurable social and environmental impact.\\Althelia is managing the Luxembourg-based Althelia Climate Fund, set up to focus on impact investments that deliver the highest calibre triple bottom line outcomes and demonstrate that high financial returns can be fully aligned with sound environmental stewardship and social development. With a special emphasis on sustainable agriculture and payment for ecosystem services, we leverage investment to simultaneously catalyse a range of positive impacts, including: \\-Positively transformed land-use models delivering social, economic and environmental outcomes; \-Economic and livelihood benefits realised by a wide spectrum of local stakeholders; \-Reduced greenhouse gas emissions; \-Sustained or enhanced biodiversity and ecosystem function; and \-Improvements in the conservation of threatened and endangered species. \\The closed-end Fund invests activities in Africa, Latin America and Asia that take the form of real assets (certified commodities and agricultural produce) and environmental services (carbon, payment for ecosystem services), delivering cash dividends to investors over its 8 year life.\\\To find out more about how Althelia is working to align economy with ecology, please contact us on: info(at)althelia.com