CapMan Natural Capital is a specialist natural capital asset manager focused on sustainable forestry investments across Europe. The investment team acquires and actively manages forest and land assets at scale with the objective of delivering long-term, risk-adjusted market returns alongside measurable environmental outcomes, including climate benefits and biodiversity enhancement.
- Specialist European natural capital manager: CapMan Natural Capital focuses on forestry investments across Europe, combining financial returns with measurable environmental outcomes such as climate change mitigation and biodiversity enhancement.
- Experienced team with track record: The team has over 100 years of combined experience in commercial forestry and private equity and a long history of successful forest investment funds and co-investment vehicles.
- Scale and reach: Managing approximately 240,000 hectares across eight EU countries with EUR 1.6 billion in assets under management and realised returs exceeding EUR 600 million.
- Functioning markets: CapMan Natural Capital’s Northern European Forest Investment Study 2025 shows the annual forest property market size across the Nordic countries, the Baltics, the UK totals approximately EUR 2.2 billion.
- Low natural risk and resilient investment environment: Northem European forests face minimal exposure to large-scale natural risks, while proactive management mitigates forest-specific risks such as pests, diseases, wind, and snow damage.
- Value creation: CapMan Natural Capital has been at the forefront of unlocking new income streams beyond timber, delivering additional value through initiatives such as large-scale renewable energy agreements and pioneering natural capital impact investment strategies in Europe.
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