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Collaboration will accelerate restoration and protection of hundreds of thousands of hectares in the Global South to sequester and store carbon at scale, provide tangible benefits to local communities, and restore ecosystems LOS ANGELES , Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Climate finance company Catona Climate is teaming up with global nonprofit Eden: People+Planet through its full-service carbon project development company Compassionate Carbon, a wholly-owned subsidiary, to finance landscape-scale high-integrity nature-based Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) projects that will restore hundreds of thousands of hectares across the Global South and remove millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, while generating substantive benefits to local communities and regional biodiversity. Eden's Compassionate Carbon draws on nearly 20 years of experience and its work in ten countries to engage local communities and develop and operate large-scale nature-based projects. Compassionate Carbon and Catona Climate will look for opportunities to collaborate on project design to maximize ecological, biodiversity and social benefits. Catona Climate will help projects get off the ground and deliver sustained impact by securing project financing; bolstering both on-the-ground and tech-driven remote monitoring and engagement activities; driving sales through forward offtake agreements with its deep network of enterprise buyers; and providing storytelling support for projects. "Compassionate Carbon is excited for an opportunity to bring mission critical elements to the forefront of the carbon marketplace through careful and strategic project design and holistic implementation of ecosystem restoration efforts for the benefit of people+planet, " said Bryan Adkins , CEO of Eden. "The true and lasting impact we all hope for will only be achieved through like-minded partners working together for decades to come. Then we will celebrate a world where all people thrive through healthy and restored environments." While nature-based carbon projects represent one of several critical, proven solutions to combat climate change, they require significant upfront capital to get off the ground. Yet, these projects have the potential to generate meaningful carbon revenue for decades as they sequester and store carbon over time. Compassionate Carbon projects are specifically designed with community benefits and ecosystem services at the core to maximize the value to both the people disproportionately affected by climate change and the resulting emission reduction and removal credits to the market. Catona's innovative climate financing model helps solve this problem by supporting early-stage nature-based projects through an initial capital investment as well as enhanced monitoring capabilities that leverage Catona's trusted network of tech-based monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) partners. This helps incentivize large enterprise buyers in Catona's network to sign long-term offtake deals for future carbon removals as part of their net-zero commitments. In turn, these enterprise offtake agreements help derisk projects and serve as a critical mechanism to unlock capital from other financiers looking to invest in nature-based solutions. "This type of collaboration is exactly what the Catona model is designed to facilitate and scale, and we're delighted to be embarking on this journey with a partner like Compassionate Carbon that embodies the highest levels of integrity in the market," said Catona Climate CEO Tate Mill . "What this means for our enterprise partners is access to a massive new supply of high-quality nature-based credits; what it means for our financing partners is new attractive investment opportunities; and what it means for people and the planet is more economic opportunity, more biodiversity, and a lot less carbon in the air." About Catona Climate Catona Climate is a climate finance company that delivers high-quality carbon solutions to businesses everywhere, helping transform climate pledges into measurable action through rigorously vetted high-impact nature-based carbon projects around the world. Guided by an unwavering commitment to the planet, Catona Climate exists to combat the climate crisis by driving capital to nature and enabling a fair and equitable transition to a net-zero future. Catona Climate is a member of the Business Alliance to Scale Climate Solutions, IETA, and other critical industry groups dedicated to accelerating climate action. For more information, visit Catona.com . About Compassionate Carbon Eden: People+Planet is a full-service nature-based solution developer committed to ecosystem restoration through both carbon and non-carbon eligible landscape scale restoration projects. Since 2005, Eden has been intent on becoming an industry leader in the restoration of degraded environments by working through the people who are most affected by climate change. Eden is focused on being the long-term provider of nature-based solutions to climate change so that all people can thrive through healthy and restored environments. Eden-Plus.org Media Contacts Catona press@catona.com Catona Investor Relations investors@catona.com Eden: People+Planet marketing@eden-plus.org View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/compassionate-carbon-and-catona-climate-join-forces-to-scale-nature-based-projects-302324451.html SOURCE Catona Climate © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.Ashley Ridge, Fort Dorchester and Summerville entered this wrestling season ranked in the Top 10 for their division. The South Carolina Wrestling Coaches Association released its 2024 preseason rankings earlier this month and some local teams have already begun their 2024-25 season. Summerville is the top-ranked 5A, Division 1 team in the state after finishing last season as the state runner-up behind Fort Mill. Trailing in the Top 10 for the division, from second to 10th, are Carolina Forest, James Island, Fort Dorchester, Boiling Springs, River Bluff, Stratford, Byrnes, Ashley Ridge and Rock Hill. Cane Bay is ranked 15th while West Ashley is ranked 17th and Wando 18th. “We have a very strong group this year,” Summerville coach Daryl Tucker said. “I like our lineup if we can just stay healthy.” The Green Wave has three past state qualifiers leading the way this season. Junior Kayleb Pinckney lost to Nation Ford’s Danny Gilstorf in the 132-pound weight class during the semifinals of the 2024 state individual championships. Senior Landon Deaton was a 2023 state qualifier at 106. Senior Caleb Herring placed second in 2023 for the 126-pound class. Last season, Fort Mill handed Summerville a 32-27 loss during the Class 5A team championship. The Yellow Jackets were ranked third in the class entering the playoffs while the Green Wave was ranked first, as it had been for much of the season. The Green Wave finished the season with a 27-3 record and as a region champion and Lower State Champion for the third time in the past four seasons. Ashley Ridge and Fort Dorchester placed second and third, respectively, in their region behind Summerville last season. Ashley Ridge was eliminated from the playoffs in the second round by Goose Creek and Fort Dorchester fell in the same round with a loss to River Bluff. This season, the Patriots are led by four returning state qualifiers. Sophomore Richard Springs won the 120 class in 2024, claiming an 8-3 decision over Byrnes’ Hampton Higdon in the championship match. He also won a state title at 113 in 2023 and a state-title at 106 in 2022. Sophomore Evan Gates went 2-1 at 106 during last year’s championships to finish as the state runner-up. Senior Zach Gomer-Chrobocinski lost to Dutch Fork’s Jackson Stocker in the 113-pound semi-finals to finish in third place. In 2023 he placed third at 106. Fellow Fort senior Caleb Wilson qualified at 126 in 2024 and at 120 in 2023. Ashley Ridge has one returning state qualifier, senior Jeremiah Venning. He wrestled at 190 last season. Eastside is the top ranked team for 5A, Division 2. Rounding out the Top 10 for that division are Indian Land, Lugoff-Elgin, Chapin, Fort Mill, Greenwood, Goose Creek, Woodmont, Hillcrest and TL Hanna. Berkeley is ranked 20th in the division, but has four returning state qualifiers. Full wrestle rankings can be found at scmat.com , which compiles the rankings for the association. The next team and individual rankings are scheduled to be released Dec. 19.ATLANTA, Dec. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitcoin Depot Inc. (“Bitcoin Depot” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: BTM), a U.S.-based Bitcoin ATM (“BTM”) operator and leading fintech company, today celebrates a landmark moment in the cryptocurrency as Bitcoin surpasses its all-time price peak of $100,000. This industry milestone reflects growing global confidence in Bitcoin as a financial asset and highlights the increasing demand for accessible crypto solutions. "Bitcoin reaching $100,000 is an example of its resilience, staying power, and growing role in the financial ecosystem," said Brandon Mintz, CEO and founder of Bitcoin Depot. "This moment shows the growing trust millions place in Bitcoin and further establishes Bitcoin Depot’s commitment of 'Bringing Bitcoin to the Masses ® ' by providing secure, user-friendly access points that bridge traditional finance and the digital economy." 2024 has been a defining period for the crypto industry, marked by significant advancements such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's approval of the first Bitcoin spot ETFs and continued growing institutional adoption. These achievements, coupled with increased regulatory clarity and rising global interest in Bitcoin, further demonstrate cryptocurrency's expanding role in the financial landscape. Bitcoin Depot, with over 8,300 Bitcoin ATM kiosks deployed across North America and Puerto Rico, has cemented itself as a key player in facilitating crypto adoption. As the largest BTM operator in North America, the Company has built significant momentum in the last year, marked by key milestones such as bringing its BDCheckout Program to six new states, expanding into Puerto Rico , and introducing strategic retail partnerships with multiple major convenience and grocery store retailers. “Bitcoin’s momentum is driving new users to enter the market, and many are choosing BTMs for secure and convenient access to cryptocurrency,” said Scott Buchanan, COO of Bitcoin Depot. “At Bitcoin Depot, we’ve always believed in providing everyone with easy access to Bitcoin, and as we grow, our focus remains on delivering a simple and reliable way to buy Bitcoin quickly and securely. This is just the beginning for the cryptocurrency industry and Bitcoin Depot as a leading provider.” Bitcoin Depot BTMs are designed to provide a seamless user experience, allowing customers to quickly convert cash into Bitcoin and access the broader digital financial system for payments, transfers, remittances, and investments. About Bitcoin Depot Bitcoin Depot Inc. (Nasdaq: BTM) was founded in 2016 with the mission to connect those who prefer to use cash to the broader, digital financial system. Bitcoin Depot provides its users with simple, efficient and intuitive means of converting cash into Bitcoin, which users can deploy in the payments, spending and investing space. Users can convert cash to bitcoin at Bitcoin Depot kiosks in 48 states and at thousands of name-brand retail locations in 29 states through its BDCheckout product. The Company has the largest market share in North America with approximately 8,486 kiosk locations as of December 05, 2024. 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(Bloomberg) — When Texas’s largest state pension funds and endowments moved to curb China investments in recent years, they still kept money with big names like Two Sigma Investments LP, Hillhouse Investment, PAG and HongShan Capital Group. Now a new order for state entities to divest all of their China investments calls into question the ability of those firms to hold on to existing cash or raise fresh capital from the Lone Star State. Governor Greg Abbott on Nov. 21 wrote to state agencies, barring them from making new investments in China and decreeing exits from any existing ones “at the first available opportunity.” The fresh order capped years of moves by some of the state’s largest public-sector investors to reduce their China holdings in the face of growing geopolitical rivalry along with the Asian nation’s regulatory uncertainty, slowing economy and slumping markets. The immediate impact on the likes of Hillhouse and Two Sigma may be modest, given that the allocations make up a small portion of the tens of billions of dollars they manage, and that, for the former, much of the money is tied up in relatively illiquid private assets. But there is a risk that other states may follow Texas as US-China tensions are expected to heat up when President-elect Donald Trump returns to power. The nearly $210 billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas, or TRS, and the $78 billion University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Co. — better known as Utimco — are among investment giants in the state that remain exposed to China. The Employees Retirement System of Texas, whose trust fund hit $40 billion, also disclosed allocations to asset managers with China exposure, such as Asia-based alternative assets investor PAG. TRS received the governor’s letter and is reviewing its China investments, a spokesman said in an email, adding its exposure to China is estimated at less than 1% of its assets. A new TRS investment policy statement adopted on Sept. 23 excluded Hong Kong and China from benchmarks used for public equity investments. Its investment committee earlier this year discussed “zero percent allocation” to China, “due to the political environment shifting.” The organization effectively halved the target allocation to Chinese stocks in September 2022, when it decided to reduce the country’s outsized weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index by switching to an equal mix of the original benchmark and a version without China. An investment report available to Bloomberg News showed TRS had a touch under $211 million parked in the Two Sigma China Core Equity Fund at the end of June. It had another $282 million invested with Green Court Capital Management Ltd. Those two investments are absent from the latest report for the end of September. Hillhouse, which managed nearly $500 million of public markets investments for the pension fund at the end of 2020, dropped off TRS’s list of external managers in the latest annual report for the year ended Aug. 31. TRS also had investments in funds of Hony Capital and Orchid Asia Group, two China-focused private equity firms. Changes in the market value of holdings would have reflected the amount of committed capital called down by the funds for investments, cash distributions and market value changes in their underlying investments. Hillhouse, GGV Capital, Two Sigma and HongShan Capital Group, the renamed former China arm of Sequoia Capital, also feature prominently among managers with significant China investments that Utimco parceled out money to. Representatives for EQT, Green Court, Hillhouse, PAG, Two Sigma and Utimco declined to comment. Employees Retirement System of Texas and TPG couldn’t immediately comment. Coreview, HongShan, Hony Capital and Orchid Asia didn’t immediately respond to emailed requests for comment. Neither did Granite Asia, the entity that now runs GGV’s Asia operations. Most of the funds have broader geographical coverage, and it’s not clear how much of the amounts are actually invested in China. PAG funds that Texas investors have allocated money to have minimal exposure to China, said a person with knowledge of the matter. Geopolitical tensions have been mounting. President Joe Biden in August 2023 issued a long-anticipated executive order imposing screening for US investments in Chinese companies in some sectors. In October 2023, a US congressional committee sent Sequoia a letter asking for information about its China investment, calling out several as “problematic” for security or human-rights reasons. Earlier that year, the Select Committee sent GGV Capital, GSR Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and Walden International similar letters asking about various investments in China and Chinese investors in their funds. Abbott joined his counterparts in South Dakota, Iowa and Mississippi in writing to Vanguard Group in May 2023, urging the investment firm to create an emerging markets fund that excludes China. The Republican governor signed an executive order last month banning business travel by state employees to countries designated as “foreign adversaries,” including China. It required advance notification of planned personal trips to such destinations and post-trip debriefings. That would curb the ability of Texas public sector investors from conducting on-site meetings with managers in mainland China and Hong Kong. Abbott’s Nov. 21 order cited threats to the financial security of the state from the Chinese Communist Party and called for all investments of state money in China to be “evaluated and immediately addressed.” The order didn’t specify whether and how he expected private markets investments — such as private equity, venture capital and real estate — to be liquidated. A press officer wasn’t able to provide additional information. Even public market investments may take more than a year to exit, depending on lockup and redemption terms. The state investors may have money with other global or emerging markets or Asia regional funds that make part of their investments in China. It’s not clear how that will be treated. While public market funds allow redemptions, investors usually can only fully exit private equity and venture capital investments at the end of the funds’ lives or by transferring their stakes in the secondary market. Hillhouse has been expanding investments outside China. Founded in 2005 by Yale University endowment alumnus Zhang Lei with a mandate to trade public equities globally, Hillhouse has grown assets to more than $100 billion, diversifying into venture capital, private equity and, in recent years, real assets and private credit. Its investments away from China have included Asia warehouse operator GLP Pte, Royal Philips NV’s domestic-appliance unit and Swiss athletic shoe brand On. It has started a tender offer for Japanese real estate company Samty Holdings Ltd. Led by Neil Shen, HongShan is opening a London office to help scout for deals in Europe, as it ramps up efforts outside China. The company already has nearly 10 portfolio investments in Europe, including Monzo Bank Ltd., a London-based digital bank; new energy firm GEO; designer brand Ami Paris, and healthcare business Barinthus Biotherapeutics Plc. Its overseas investments are mostly in Asia, including Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia. Seeing growing obstacles to raise money from US public pension funds and endowments, asset managers with significant China exposure have been turning to private-sector investors such as family offices as well as allocators outside the US, most notably the Middle East.

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