New Gresham House forestry fund to pay investors in carbon credits

Credits can be sold or used for offsets

Gresham House has launched a UK forestry strategy, which will pay investor distributions in carbon credits that can either be "sold to provide income" or used to "address carbon emissions".

Investors will receive distributions in the form of verified carbon credits that can be retained for ‘insetting' purposes - to address carbon emissions in their sphere of influence or portfolio - or sold to provide income. These returns provide "potential upside" from an increase in the value of carbon credits. Gresham House appoints director of sustainable investment The fund aims to deliver sustainable capital growth through new productive woodland creation and returns will be generated through the sale of timber and the capital growth of land and trees from existing forests. Mea...