Financing Nature

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Financing Nature

How can we mobilise investment into nature restoration? Financing Nature from GFI Hive aims to better understand how we can unlock private sector investment into nature restoration and nature-based solutions, and move towards a nature-positive economy. Each episode features interviews with leaders in finance, policy and the environment to discuss solutions. Hosted by the Green Finance Institute's Helen Avery.

  1. R4N Episode 3: Nicolas Pascal, Blue Alliance

    1D AGO

    R4N Episode 3: Nicolas Pascal, Blue Alliance

    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.

    30 min
  2. R4N Episode 2: Elizabeth Beall, Fisheries Improvement Fund

    JUN 6

    R4N Episode 2: Elizabeth Beall, Fisheries Improvement Fund

    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.

    29 min
  3. R4N Episode 1: Pedro Moura Costa, Responsible Commodities Facility

    MAY 29

    R4N Episode 1: Pedro Moura Costa, Responsible Commodities Facility

    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.

    41 min
  4. Farming Toolkit Special Episode: Archie Ruggles-Brise, Spains Hall Estate

    01/19/2024

    Farming Toolkit Special Episode: Archie Ruggles-Brise, Spains Hall Estate

    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.

    36 min
  5. Farming Toolkit Special Episode: Timothy Coates, co-founder Oxbury Bank and third generation farmer

    01/10/2024

    Farming Toolkit Special Episode: Timothy Coates, co-founder Oxbury Bank and third generation farmer

    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.

    39 min
  6. COP15 Special: Live from Montréal

    12/16/2022

    COP15 Special: Live from Montréal

    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.

    55 min

  7. 12/07/2022

    COP15 Special: Elizabeth Mrema, Executive Secretary, and David Ainsworth, Information Officer, UN Convention on Biological Diversity

    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.

    28 min
  8. COP27 Special Series, Episode 5: Susan Gardner and Ivo Mulder

    11/02/2022

    COP27 Special Series, Episode 5: Susan Gardner and Ivo Mulder

    In this final episode of our COP27 Special Series with the United Nations Environment Programme, we are joined from UNEP's Ecosystems Division by Susan Gardner, Head of the Ecosystems Division and Ivo Mulder, Head of the  Climate Finance Unit. Susan and Ivo wrap up the series by sharing what they hope to see happen at COP27 and the actions we collectively need to take to ensure that nature restoration and nature-based solutions receive the investment they urgently require.

    32 min
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How can we mobilise investment into nature restoration? Financing Nature from GFI Hive aims to better understand how we can unlock private sector investment into nature restoration and nature-based solutions, and move towards a nature-positive economy. Each episode features interviews with leaders in finance, policy and the environment to discuss solutions. Hosted by the Green Finance Institute's Helen Avery.

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    Green Finance Institute
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2025
  • Episodes
    42
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    © Green Finance Institute
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