Key revenue streams

Forestry is an attractive asset class for investors due to favourable portfolio attributes including low correlation to other asset classes, natural inflation hedging, and low volatility of returns. 

Ecosystem services

• Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) is an innovative approach to conservation. Payments for Ecosystem Services is the name given to a variety of arrangements through which the beneficiaries of environmental services, from watershed protection and forest conservation to carbon sequestration and landscape beauty, reward those whose lands provide these services with subsidies or market payments. 
• Arranging payments for the benefits provided by forests, fertile soils and other natural ecosystems is a way to recognize their value and ensure that these benefits continue well into the future.
• Across the world, environmental conservation is critical to secure the flow of ecosystem services that are essential for people and nature. With funding for natural resource management dwindling, a variety of PES schemes have emerged as potential sources of sustainable financing for conservation.

Carbon credits and Agroforestry

• ​A carbon offset helps balance the greenhouse gas emissions from one party to another, with a financial reward for the landowner storing the carbon. Forest carbon sequestration, or the long-term storage of carbon as a way to mitigate the effects of climate change, is just one of many types of carbon offset projects, and measures carbon based on how much is stored in living and dead trees on a designated property.​
• ​Generation of revenue streams from sale of agricultural produce, particularly a mix of perennials that yield cash income on a long term basis. 
• ​Generation of revenue streams from sale of sustainable timber. Sustainable timber refers to timber that has been harvested responsibly from well managed forests that are continuously replenished and ensure that there is no damage to the surrounding environment, or to native flora and fauna.​