Kew Gardens secures a multimillion-pound climate change investment

Greensphere Capital aims to invest up to 100m in research into some of world's most pressing challenges

The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew has secured a multimillion-pound investment to help commercialise its research into climate change-resistant crops, zero-carbon fertiliser and plant- and cell-based meat and dairy products.

Greensphere Capital, a sustainability-focused fund, is aiming to invest up to 100m in the work carried out by Kew, a research institution and the UK's largest botanic garden, as well as other organisations, to commercialise and scale-up study into managing risks around the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.