Natural Capital & Sustainability
Making Value Visible
The most successful companies of the future will help solve environmental and industrial challenges while creating attractive returns.
For more than 15 years, we have invested in businesses that help customers use fewer resources, improve efficiency and build more resilient operations.
Over time, we started asking a deeper question:
How can we better understand and communicate the value these companies create? That question led to Alder’s Natural Capital Framework.
The framework helps us make environmental value more visible by measuring both a company’s footprint and its handprint, the positive impact created through products and services. By translating environmental outcomes into a common value language, we can have better conversations with management teams, boards, customers and investors about what impact actually means and where it creates value.
Natural Capital & Sustainability is one of Alder’s three Value Creation Themes, alongside Leadership & Entrepreneurship and AI & Innovation.
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How we calculate natural capital value
Read more: How we calculate natural capital valueOne of our portfolio companies supports an industrial customer in redesigning a core production process to reduce waste, recover materials and lower energy use.
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Measuring handprint in practice
Read more: Measuring handprint in practiceAlder wants to enable all our businesses to measure their handprint and calculate actual savings for the customer, for example, in energy, CO2, water, waste, etc. This enables each company to substantiate its claims with…
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Ambassador of the year: Armin Stadler, eivis
Read more: Ambassador of the year: Armin Stadler, eivisEach Alder portfolio company appoints a Sustainability Ambassador to drive efforts to reduce its footprint and increase its positive handprint. This year, we’re highlighting eivis’ (formerly Insort) Ambassador, Armin Stadler, who demonstrates exactly what’s needed…
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Buy and build with impact
Read more: Buy and build with impact2025 was a strong year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with 20 add-ons acquired across the Alder portfolio. But what’s the strategy behind the buy-and-build approach and how does it improve our ability to increase…
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Communication and transparency
Read more: Communication and transparencyIt’s vital that every business we build can clearly communicate its products and services and highlight how they help customers reduce their environmental impact. As many companies begin to go quiet about their ESG progress…
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Interview Gustaf Folke, Biosphere Intelligence: Why accounting for nature’s value makes business sense
Read more: Interview Gustaf Folke, Biosphere Intelligence: Why accounting for nature’s value makes business senseExploring natural capital with Gustaf Folke With a wealth of experience in strategy consulting and business management, Gustaf Folke established Biosphere Intelligence in 2022 with his brother, Peder Folke. The organization aims to rethink how…
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Greening pensions with AP7
Read more: Greening pensions with AP7This year, our team received commitment for Alder’s Fund III, with significant investor interest in our sustainability-focused strategy. One investor, AP7, has supported Alder from the beginning, investing in all three funds. As a Swedish…