Responsible Investment in Sustainable Forestry

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1 Responsible Investment in Sustainable Forestry How do asset managers develop and execute RI strategies for timberland? Radha Kuppalli Director, Investor Services New Forests Pty Ltd RI Europe 2013 London, June 2013

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3 Institutional Investment in Forestry Million Acres Institutional capital in timberland is growing with room to grow and increasing international and emerging markets focus Institutional Timberland Investment by Area Global Area Investible Universe $Bn* - Approximately $160 billion South Africa $3 SE Asia $5 Canada $7 Australia $7 6 New Zealand $ Other Latin America $20 Brazil $35 United States $75 *Source: HNRG and New Forests estimates, does not include Europe Let s take forest certification (e.g. FSC) as a given and go beyond certification. What else can timber investors do to ensure responsible investment? Slide 3

4 Australia Landscape of Renewable Resource Investing at scale enables both property and landscape-level outcomes Plantation eucalypts have steadily replaced native woodchip exports to Asia Australian softwood services domestic housing industry with low carbon building materials Slide 4

5 Asia ESG from DD to Management Land encroachment squatter s oil palm nursery Addressing land tenure & claims Worker health & safety Due Diligence Approach -Specialist land tenure analysis -Biodiversity and HCV study (greenfield) -Gap analysis of FSC and IFC Performance Standards -Develop Certification Action Plan Temporary contract workers camp Management Approach -Pursue FSC and IFC Performance Standards -Transparency and reporting to investors -Social & Environmental Management System with annual internal audit process Slide 5 Plantation logs for R&D trial Long-term workers camp Contractor management & training

6 US Regulatory Environmental Markets Wetlands, stream, & species banking Pineywoods Mitigation bank, in East Texas is the second largest wetlands and stream mitigation bank in the United States (19,000 acres), servicing oil and gas, highways and reservoir development. Forest carbon for California cap-and-trade market Forest Carbon Partners fund finances carbon project development on non-industrial forests, including family forests and Native American tribal lands. Total sales of mitigation credits from banks and other sources estimated at $ billion annually.* The total value of the California carbon market is expected to range from $3-8 billion through Slide 6 *Ecosystem Marketplace, State of Biodiversity Markets.

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