Enabling a Holistic Nature Investment Market for the United Kingdom.
In the age of a warming climate, record-breaking temperatures are increasingly threatening people and wildlife across the globe. Ecosystem restoration, with its dual capacity to sequester carbon and enhance biodiversity, has the potential to be a huge part of the solution.
A consortium of community organisations, national agencies, green finance and land management specialists has joined forces to create a novel framework to fund nature restoration in eastern Scotland, called Nature Finance Fife. The initiative will blend public, philanthropic and private finance for the restoration of the region’s natural ecosystems
* According to new guidelines published by the Scottish Land Commission (SLC), "community benefits" are defined as: * For the local geographical community – they are in addition to the public benefits nature restoration projects provide such as clean air and water, carbon sequestration and biodiversity gains, and in addition to
* The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. UK government is committed to restoring nature, including a legally-binding commitment to halt the decline in species abundance by 2030 and a pledge to protect and effectively manage 30% of land and sea for nature by 2030. * To
The Scottish Government and NatureScot, working in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund, with the support of the Green Finance Institute, have announced a second round of a grant scheme to support projects that shape and grow the use of private investment and market-based mechanisms to finance the restoration
