Agbar’s water and Naturgy’s energy, as well as Celsa and Cementos Molins building materials. the services of Catalana Occidente and Grant Thornton; financial advisors Global Impact Assets and those of CaixaBank. Food from Flax & Kale and Ametller Origen and now buildings from Copisa. Everyone wants to be sustainable. These multinational companies from seemingly far-flung industries have come together to make a reality of the responsibility and desire to protect the exploited Mediterranean habitat.
Keyword: natural capital is understood as the set of resources of an ecosystem. And those who want to partner with multinational companies: Nactiva, a newborn platform with all these companies behind it, by giving it financial support and taking advantage of it as a partner. It is defined as an organization that aims to accelerate investments and sustainable projects in the Mediterranean region.
250,000 beneficiaries
The platform was created with the goal of mobilizing around 1,500 million by 2030, and this project will be invested in 100 projects of “proper size” that will impact an area of 50,000 square meters – they could reach 200 if we count the small ones. hectare. Nactiva’s goal is to impact 250,000 beneficiaries (among workers, investors and affected communities). To do this, you need to have between 50 and 100 partners based on your data.
However, Nactiva was born in April, and so far its creators have refused to specify what investment they made it with. were formed with.small contributions, not so importantSources from Ametller Origen also confirm this. “The hiring was more for our project, not for capital,” they point out. Collaboration sought “We share what we do and get help from others,” they say.
The platform hopes to attract private investment for each project it launches. “Go find big funds so that the programs have a big impact,” he emphasizes. In the first year, it aims to channel investments worth between 50 and 70 million.
food addiction
Two years ago, Joan Cabezas director, director of The Palladium Group’s natural capital business, and silvia alsinaRoman, CEO of the communication agency Roman, realized that “one of the regions of the world most affected by climate change is the Mediterranean”. Here the loss of biodiversity adds to that of food sovereignty. “We depend on products that other countries want to sell to us,” they say. As such, they had to work in clearly differentiated roles: “I would attract CEOs of companies and Silvia would explain the project to them,” Cabezas says in an interview with ‘activos’.
Nactiva’s ultimate goal is to ensure that the Mediterranean economic sector “has a part closely linked to the natural capital sector” and can then be exported to other countries. “And in this way – he adds – the creation of start-ups working in this industry is encouraged. “Companies will want to invest in us because they see business opportunities in the medium to long term,” he says.
“We are self-financing – he insists heads-. We don’t want the platform to hit the market, but we want it to attract more and more important resources to be able to invest.” They also want to channel some public investment. But the goal is not to gain benefits. “We want to stay at zero every year,” the creator emphasizes, emphasizing that all his income is reinvested. “We will not invest more than we can gather between partners and projects,” he concludes. This includes the salaries of 10 people. They have staff. They also subcontract some services. However, the number rises to twenty people.
They are planning to leave Spain but not in the first year. In the medium term, they want to enter France, Italy, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco… They do not clarify numerical targets for reducing CO2 emissions, For example. “We need to start projects to make initial measurements and set goals,” they say.
four vertical
Nactiva encompasses four environmental verticals. The first is the management of “abandoned and underdeveloped” forests, as most of the property is private. They want their owners to transfer some of the land to the companies that manage it, and in return withhold all the material they get from the forest.
The second project aims to decrease imports by increasing vegetable protein production in Catalonia. Third, along the same lines, it aims to achieve “100% food sovereignty”. And finally, Nactiva will focus on reducing pollution of seas and rivers, as well as giving a second life to industrial colonies.