Christian Polman
Why Family Offices Should Be Looking at Nature-Based Solutions: Lunch with Terra Labs
If nature were listed on an exchange, it would be the most undervalued asset in the world. Consider the arithmetic. The world faces a $700 billion annual biodiversity financing gap, while $7.3 trillion flows into nature-negative activities every year, only $220 billion is spent conserving it; in other words, for every $30 spent destroying nature only $1 is spent protecting
10 Years of Groundswell: From Niche Movement to a Billion-Hectare Ambition
Ten thousand people. Ten years running. This year’s Groundswell, held at Lannock Farm just north of London, was unmistakable: a decade in, the movement feels stronger than it has ever been. There was real confidence, built on a decade’s worth of accumulating evidence that regenerative practices work — agronomically, commercially, and ecologically. That confidence has been sharpened this year by
Patient Capital with Purpose: Why Family Offices Hold the Key to Solving Multi-Generational Climate Crises
EthicalFin recently hosted a panel at the Concave Summit as part of London Climate Action Week for a discussion that captured something often overlooked in climate finance conversations: family offices aren’t just another source of capital—they’re uniquely positioned to solve problems that institutional investors fundamentally cannot. The “Patient Capital with Purpose” session, held as part of the summit co-hosted with
Nature, Capital, Cities: Mapping the Biggest Opportunities to Drive Climate Solutions
The question hanging over the 2026 Concave Summit at London Climate Action Week on “Nature, Capital, Cities – Investing for Resilience” was both simple and urgent: We know what needs to be solved. We have the technologies. We have the capital. So what’s required to scale the most promising solutions to our planetary crises? What emerged throughout the day—co-hosted by
Beyond the Hype: Three Shifts from London Climate Action Week That Matter for Impact Investors
There’s an old saying that a crisis is just an opportunity in disguise. If that’s true, then London Climate Action Week 2026 proved to be an exceptional moment of opportunity. This year’s gathering stood out not just for its quality discussions and world-class speakers, but for something more visceral: the week itself became a sobering reminder of just how urgent
Feeding the World Without Costing the Earth: Lessons from The Royal Society Environment Prize Lecture
When Professor Andrew Balmford FRS delivered this year’s Royal Society Environment Prize Lecture — “Feeding the world without costing the earth” — he posed a question that sits at the heart of food systems investing: how do we meet humanity’s most basic need without dismantling the natural systems that it depends on? [1] As Professor of Conservation Science at Cambridge’s
Seeing Beyond the Fog of Geopolitical Volatility: Hard Truths from Al Gore and Avril Haines on Global Security
This week, at the Generation & Just Climate’s Global Client Conference 2026, the air was thick with a level of gravity that only a Nobel Laureate and a former Director of National Intelligence can command. Al Gore and Avril Haines sat down for a fireside chat that felt less like a briefing and more like a map of the world’s
Scaling Climate Solutions: Investing in the Next Energy Super Cycle
The numbers tell a powerful story. Global energy demand is set to rise by 3.5% annually over the next decade, ending nearly two decades of stagnation in energy growth across developed markets. In the United States alone, demand from data centres is climbing at 8–12% per year, up from just 2-3% a few years ago. Solar energy production has
The Great Readiness Gap: What Texas Solar and London’s Livery Halls Tell Us About the Future of Climate Finance
If you want to see the future of renewable energy, don’t turn to Silicon Valley but rather look to the dusty ranchlands of West Texas. During the Livery Climate Action Group (LCAG) conference on January 26th at the historic Merchant Taylors’ Hall, Baroness Brown of Cambridge (Chair of the Adaptation Committee of the CCC) shared a startling statistic: Texas
Our 2025 Highlights and Lowlights: A Year of Reckoning and Renewal
2025 reminded us that impact investing doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It lives in an intricate overlap between global systems struggling to change and local actors who refuse to wait. This was a year that tested our resilience — as people, as professionals, as an organisation, and as a purpose-driven community. But it also offered glimpses of regeneration and
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