Adam Gibbon

Natural Capital Lead
AXA Investment Managers

Adam leads AXA IM’s Natural Capital investment strategy, deploying equity, debt and carbon offtake agreements to high impact enterprises and projects that tackle the climate crisis through conservation, restoration and sustainable management of natural capital.
Adam has spent his career designing and implementing solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss. Whilst working for leading NGO Rainforest Alliance (2009-12) he pioneered the development of the voluntary carbon market through standard design, auditing and project development. He gained extensive field experience across conservation, sustainable agriculture and forestry across the tropics.At PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change practice Adam advised some of the UK’s largest companies on their landuse/deforestation and associated financial strategies and helped the Government of Guyana unlock $50m of performance-based payments from Norway. For eight years, as Chief Technical Officer and Investment Director at Mirova Natural Capital (previously known as Althelia) he helped build one of the world’s foremost natural capital impact investment platforms. Transactions he structured and executed have provided positive returns and significant quantified impact for public and private sector investors.Since 2013 Adam has been advising AXA IM on natural capital investments. AXA IM were an LP in MNC’s first fund, the Althelia Climate Fund, and following this Adam led a private mandate advising AXA IM on transactions from their Climate and Biodiversity Fund. Adam has since moved in-house with AXA IM where he has raised $500m into the Natural Capital Fund and built a portfolio of leading developers and projects.

Adam has an BSc in Natural Sciences from Durham University and an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University.

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