The Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) Summer Conference is focused on “Financing the Future – Using Green Finance to Drive Nature’s Recovery.” The conference is being held online.
Binnies’ Fran Moore and Laure Hobbs will give an overview of their work supporting Nature North in developing four of their ‘investable concepts’, and insights from the nature finance and investment landscape. Nature North is a collaboration of organisations across the North of England working to drive climate resilience and green growth through nature recovery. Binnies has supported their strategic and collaborative approach to steer nature finance and investment to where it is needed most: the right habitat, in the right place, for the right outcome. This work has included extensive stakeholder engagement to progress three ‘investable propositions’, alongside work to understand investment mechanisms and scalable financial models for landscape-scale nature recovery. The work has helped Nature North to progress forward at pace in its vital work to direct investment to nature restoration in the North of England. Binnies will give a brief overview of learning and insights.
Binnies’ talk will be useful to anyone seeking to undertake a collaborative approach to nature recovery, specifically the aim to harness the nature finance and investment landscape. It will give a useful, but brief, overview of key insights from the nature finance world – corporate drivers, credit markets and stacking, blending in emerging scalable models – risks and opportunities going forward.
Event informationAbout our speakers
Fran has over 17 years’ experience in valuing the benefits of nature-recovery for investment planning. She works in a range of sectors including water, flood risk, nature finance and energy. Her work helps to strategically channel nature finance and investment to where it delivers most impact. She has developed a Natural Capital Assessment Framework for the River Thames Scheme, and has been working on scenario planning for landscape recovery projects and large landowners. She works on optimal funding and income strategies drawing on credit markets, stacking and blending in innovative finance mechanisms. Fran recently completed her PhD on regenerative farming via University of Hull Centre for Systems studies.
Laura has over ten years’ experience working in nature recovery across the academic, private, and public sector. She has developed natural capital valuation frameworks for large infrastructure schemes (e.g. River Thames Scheme), landscape recovery projects and for large landowners and estates (e.g. National Trust). As an ecologist, she has expertise in Biodiversity Net Gain and agri-environment payments. She has worked on the design of nature-based solutions, from farms to landscape scale networks. She has recently been supporting the ‘Rivers Nature North’ Investable Concept for the Environment Agency and Nature North.