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Investment Management for the Carbon Potential of Forests: David Brand, New Forests

Investment Management for the Carbon Potential of Forests: David Brand, New Forests

FromClimate Rising


Investment Management for the Carbon Potential of Forests: David Brand, New Forests

FromClimate Rising

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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

David Brand is founder and CEO of New Forests, a business that manages forests for long-term returns for institutional investors. He has an unusual climate vision. Right now the forestry business, together with agriculture and land use, is responsible for about one-quarter of the emissions that cause climate change. By unlocking the value of the carbon sequestered in forests, in conserved land, and other real natural assets, Brand aims to reverse this: Forestry, agriculture, and land use are currently responsible for producing one quarter of global emissions, but Brand wants to make the forestry industry responsible for capturing well over that percentage of emissions—all within 10 years. And he foresees a profitable way to achieve this.
Released:
May 13, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (83)

Climate Rising is about the impact of climate change on business. It brings business and policy leaders and Harvard Business School faculty together to share insights about what businesses are doing, can do, and should do to confront climate change. It explores the many challenges and opportunities that climate change raises for managers, such as decisions about where they choose to locate, the technologies they develop and use, their strategies with respect to products, marketing, customer engagement, and policy—in other words, the full spectrum of business concerns.