A group of large companies including Agbar, Naturgy, Celsa, Cementos Molins, Grupo Occident, Grant Thornton, Flax
“Natural capital, the management and care of the environment, is a new sector of economic activity with great potential and with a positive impact; There are already platforms of this type in the Amazon, Canada or the United Kingdom, but not in the Mediterranean”, explains Joan Cabezas, CEO of Nactiva.
The platform has been established as a common interest benefit society, a non-profit social enterprise, based in Barcelona. It will allocate all its resources and future benefits to identify, select, design, accelerate and obtain financing, whether public, private or philanthropic, for business projects that regenerate the natural capital of the territory in four areas: water, coast, forests and land.
Nactiva studies and selects the projects, which may come from a startup, a scientific institute, an institution, company or research groups, among others. “They have to have an ecological impact, but also a social and economic one, and be replicable and scalable,” says Cabezas.
The platform has already started working on five projects, such as the MED-Forest program, for sustainable forest management, the Mediterranean Vegetable Protein program, focused on the development of an integrated value chain for the production of vegetable protein in the region, or a transformation program for the industrial colonies on the river Llobregat. Nactiva's objective is to catalyze 200 initiatives in seven years, mobilizing some 1,500 million euros.
