Dire news about climate change and the extreme weather events of 2021 has dominated the news over recent months and it is easy to get pessimistic. The BBC put out an article last week that 60% of young people are ‘extremely worried’ about climate change…

Earlier this month Bloomberg wrote a great piece entitled “How wall Street is Gaming ESG scores’’. The summary of the article was that there are vast inconsistencies between fund managers’ stated climate objectives and the reality of their investments.

Earthly offers climate change solutions to businesses both large and small offering a broad range of nature-based offsetting solutions to balance carbon impact.

Exciting times as OnePlanetCapital, the Sustainability EIS Fund, will make its first investments into a series of exciting companies that bridge strong potential investor returns with climate change impact.

ESG investing is obviously the talk of the town. ESG inflows are incredible and growing at about 17% per annum. Globally standing at about 50 trillion USD of assets, a recent Deutsche bank report forecasted 150 trillion USD of assets by mind 2030s.

In March 2020 we were on the verge of launching a green EIS impact fund called OnePlanetCapital. After 8 months of planning, sourcing partners and developing the game plan we were literally days from going live and starting to raise funds….and then Covid19 struck.

There is a lot of discussion these days about whether economic growth is really a good thing. Endless GDP growth cannot be sustainable, we are limited by our planets’ resources ultimately and the biosphere that we inhabit.