KERING and L’OCCITANE Group join hands to create Climate Fund for Nature


December 13, 2022 | By RetailME Bureau

KERING and L’OCCITANE Group join hands to create Climate Fund for Nature (PC: L’OCCITANE Group)

Global luxury group KERING and premium and sustainable cosmetics company L’OCCITANE Group have joined hands to create Climate Fund for Nature.

The ambitious Climate Fund for Nature will mobilise resources from luxury fashion and beauty sectors to protect and restore nature with a particular focus on women empowerment. EUR140 million is already committed out of a EUR300 million target size and the fund will be open to new partner companies to support the scaling up of its positive impacts on the ground. The fund will be managed by Mirova, the affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers 100% dedicated to sustainable investing.

The fund vehicle will start operations as of Q1 2023. With the objective of supporting high-quality projects dedicated to nature protection and restoration. The fund will also support farmers in their transition to regenerative practices, deliver carbon credits and generate co-benefits for the communities with a specific emphasis on women empowerment. Eligible projects will mostly take place in countries where the investors source their core raw materials. The projects’ progress will be monitored to ensure they deliver measurable outcomes for nature, climate and livelihoods.

The projects supported will also be required to significantly contribute to women empowerment by addressing existing gaps related to access to finance, land and training. To that end the fund and Mirova will collaborate with 2X Collaborative, a global industry body for gender lens investing.

On the occasion of announcing the Climate Fund for Nature, Marie-Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability and Institutional Affairs Officer of KERING said, “The Climate Fund for Nature provides an opportunity for the Luxury Fashion and Beauty sectors to collectively support biodiversity restoration and conservation at scale. KERING is proud to collaborate with Mirova and we welcome the fund’s first partner L’OCCITANE Group. Innovative financing mechanisms are crucial to channel much-needed investment into nature-based solutions if we are to reverse biodiversity decline by 2030 and, simultaneously, address climate change, which is intrinsically interlinked with nature. We entreat further companies to join this ambitious initiative to contribute to a nature-positive future.”

“With our planet facing a global climate and biodiversity crisis never witnessed before, L’OCCITANE Group is proud to join forces with KERING and Mirova to scale-up its action against the degradation of nature, which provides the very resources and services we rely on. While reducing our emissions and impacts is our priority, the Climate Fund for Nature will help us go further by supporting projects that encourage regenerative practices, benefiting both nature and communities,” added Adrien Geiger, Chief Sustainability Officer of L’OCCITANE Group and Managing Director of L’OCCITANE en Provence.

“We are proud to work with KERING, L’OCCITANE Group and more corporates to accelerate the mobilisation of resources for nature-based solutions to climate change and women empowerment. A Net Zero and nature-positive economy requires huge amounts of capital and the ambitious contribution of corporates is essential to achieve this transition,” stated Anne-Laurence Roucher, Deputy CEO, Head of Natural Capital and Private Equity of Mirova.

As countries and companies step up their commitments to fight the climate and biodiversity crises the need to scale-up finance and investment in nature-based solutions is now acknowledged as critical. Looking to the future if the world is to meet its climate change, biodiversity and land degradation targets investment in nature-based solutions should at least triple by 2030 and increase four-fold by 2050. This acceleration would equate to cumulative total investment of up to $10 trillion and a future annual investment rate of $674 billion.

 

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