&Green
Tropical countries
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targeted
Description of the Project
Initiated by IDH and NICFI, &Green invests in commercial projects in agricultural production value chains in order to protect and restore tropical forests and peatlands and make agriculture more inclusive and sustainable. The Fund provides credit or guarantees to finance commodity supply chain projects in jurisdictions with progressive forest and/or peatlands protection strategies & policies.
Managed by Sail Investments, &Green has an environmental return target of 5 million hectares of tropical forest protected or restored. &Green assesses every transaction with respect to its potential for generating environmental return, and monitors its achievement through a suitable set of transparent KPIs.
Source : https://www.andgreen.fund/
&Green is an evergreen fund structured as a Dutch Stichting and with capital committed through grants, redeemable grants and loans from its private and public contributors including NICFI, FMO, Unilever, GEF and the Green Climate Fund.
Read the latest Nature and Biodiversity Report of the &Green Fund :
Innpact contribution
Innpact has supported IDH and NICFI in the design, structuring and incorporation process of the & Green Fund as a blended finance Dutch stichting. This included financial modeling, drafting and negotiation of legal documenation and fund policies, design of the ESMS of the Fund, selection of SAIL Investments as Investment Manager and of the service providers of the Fund, incorporation of the Fund.
As Fund Management Advisor, Innpact supports the Advisory Board and Board of Directors of AndGreen Fund with Governance support services.
Project Factsheet
- Name: &Green
- Inception: 2017
- Domicile: The Netherlands
- Structure : Evergree, Blended Finance, Dutch Stichting
- Initiator: IDH – the Sustainable Trade Initiative, NICFI
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Investment advisor: Sail Ventures
- Sector : Agriculture production, Forestry
- Geographic Focus : Tropical Forest Countries globally
- Investees: supply chain companies medium to large scale plantation and farming business, financial institutions managing an agriculture portfolio
- Instruments : subordinated creditor guarantees, under flexible terms
- Info: www.andgreen.fund
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