Financing Nature

In this episode, Helen Avery speaks with Tom Curtis, founding partner at 3Keel and Landscape Enterprise Networks about the LENs model that brings together businesses to pay farmers for environmental outcomes across a shared landscape.

In this episode, Vanessa Garcia at Terrassos shares about mitigation banking in Colombia and their model of establishing habitat banks to provide biodiversity units into that market.

In this fourth episode, Helen Avery is joined by Michal Zrust, Founder and CEO of Lestari Capital to discuss the Rimba Collective, a financial mechanism that supports companies to finance a portfolio of forest conservation and restoration projects across Southeast Asia. Rimba Collective members make payments that are proportionally linked to the amount of palm oil procured. In return for funding the projects, participating companies can claim against the environmental outcomes for their sustainability commitments and supply chain resilience.

In this third episode, Helen Avery is joined by Nicolas Pascal, Founder of Blue Alliance to explore its innovative model that creates local reef-positive business rooted in the blue economy. These social enterprises then direct a portion of their profits toward the management of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) – helping MPAs to become financially self-sustaining.

In this second episode, Helen Avery is joined by Elizabeth Beall, Managing Director of Finance Earth to discuss supply chain models including the Fisheries Improvement Fund (FIF) and how it can be replicated and scaled.

The FIF brings together actors across the entire seafood supply chain to fund the full costs of a Fishery Improvement Project or wider fishery improvements. The investment is then re-paid by a volume-based fee paid by supply chain actors.

In this episode, Helen Avery is joined by Pedro Moura Costa, founder of Sustainable Investment Management (SIM) and BVRio, to discuss the Responsible Commodities Facility (RCF), and how it can be replicated and scaled.

RCF provides a financially sustainable vehicle that incentivises soy farmers in Brazil, and helps meet the growing international demand for zero-deforestation supply chains.

Join us for this special episode of our mini-series, Farming Nature, as Archie Ruggles-Brise shares his experience and advice on preparing for Biodiversity Net Gain. We also hear about interventions across his Essex farm such as the introduction of beavers for flood management. This episode is designed to support farmers working through Milestone 5 of our Farming Toolkit. Our regular podcast, Financing Nature, will return in April 2024.

From January 2024 to the end of March 2024, GFI's Financing Nature podcast is becoming Farming Nature - a series of audio interviews designed to support UK farmers in understanding nature markets as part of the newly-launched Farming Toolkit on GFI Hive.

In this episode, Timothy Coates, co-founder of Oxbury Bank and third generation farmer shares why he is adapting his farm ready to sell units and credits, his views on pricing and 'no regrets' decisions and his work with the Northeast Cotswolds Farmer Cluster.

Financing Nature will be making its revamped return in April 2024 interviewing representatives from project developers, policy makers and financial institutions around the world in the lead up to COP16.

In this episode of Financing Nature in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme for COP15 in Montréal, we speak to those on the ground to hear why they have come, what they are hoping for from the negotiations on the crucial Global Biodiversity Framework, and their own work in halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030. Topics cover the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and data; financial sector engagement; business engagement and the role of subsidies; indigenous peoples and local communities; and the role of governments and public sector finance. 

Guests include representatives from the TNFD, NatCap Research, Finance for Biodiversity Foundation, Federated Hermes, Schroders, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Nestlé, Junglekeepers and UNEP FI. 

In this special episode at the start of COP15 in Montreal in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme, guests Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary, and David Ainsworth, Information Officer, at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity join the Green Finance Institute's Helen Avery. Together they share what we need to see over the 12 days of the Conference including within the Global Biodiversity Framework and its targets, commitments to reduce harmful subsidies, and greater actions to increase financial flows for nature restoration and protection.