Landscape Finance Lab

We're excited to share that Phase One of our first peatland restoration project is now over 50% complete! Phase One has a total restoration area of ~600 hectares. A huge thank you to our hardworking contractors and dedicated team for their efforts so far. This is a significant step in protecting our peatlands, fighting climate change, and preserving biodiversity. Here's to even more progress ahead! 💪💚 This project is supported by The Facility for Investment Ready Nature in Scotland (FIRNS). Delivered by NatureScot in collaboration with Net Zero Scotland and in partnership with the The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Scottish Government's Peatland ACTION Fund delivered in partnership with NatureScot and other agencies.

🗓 There's still time to register for 'Beyond Grants: Valuing Wetlands' on Tuesday 29 October at 12pm CET. This introductory session will showcase a variety of ways WaterLANDS Action Sites are #valuing their #naturalcapital as a means of unlocking #finance for #restoration beyond traditional conservation #grants. Join us! https://lnkd.in/dq_KYHbc Rolf Hogan Paul Leadbitter Dr Guaduneth Chico Jane da Mosto Jan Peters Agata Klimkowska Wetlands International Europe LIFE IP Wild Atlantic Nature We are here Venice Michael Succow Stiftung Shane Mc Guinness, Ph.D.

📣 Exciting new #project alert! Work kicked off last week with partners to begin mapping out how our consortium will develop landscape-scale approaches to protecting, conserving and restoring Europe's #lake #ecosystems. The Lab is delighted to be leading WP4: #Nature #Finance for #Transition along with colleagues at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei - follow EUROLakes for updates.

The Peatland Finance Collective met earlier this month for our 3rd in-person #knowledge-sharing workshop with UK and Ireland based #Peatland programmes. Many thanks to our brilliant hosts Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme iCASP and University of Leeds for a rich day of exploring challenges and #solutions to accessing and #scaling suitable #investment opportunities to support #peatlandrestoration on the British isles. The Peatland Finance Collective aims to facilitate knowledge exchange and #learning, and undertake collective action to promote the financing of peatland restoration. Members undertake to co-develop #resources and #tools, and identify additional sources of #finance and areas of potential collective action. Many thanks to everyone who attended - motivation and momentum continues to grow in this sector! 💡 Learn more about the workshop and the Peatland Finance Collective here: https://lnkd.in/e7Jq454J WaterLANDS Peatland Finance Ireland North Pennines National Landscape Nature North The Flow Country Partnership Moors for the Future Partnership South West Peatland Partnership IUCN UK Peatland Programme Cumbria Wildlife Trust Rolf Hogan Lucy Garrett Shane Mc Guinness, Ph.D. Paul Chatterton Paul Leadbitter Anton Gigov

What a week! 5 speaking slots / 3 conferences / 4 days! Australia has just held the world's first #GlobalNaturePositiveSummit, which will now repeat annually. And in parallel were the Australian Land Conservation Alliance and Telstra Business for Nature conferences. Here are some takeaways: 🦘Australia is amazing #Australia has been largely absent on the world stage. And yet on the ground are some of the best examples of #natureconservation, #naturefinance and #natureleadership anywhere. The Summit was a launchpad to tell many more of these stories globally. Watch #naturepositivematters ! 🪷 Nature repair has arrived Kudos to Minister Tanya Plibersek and her superb team for hosting the #GNPS and setting the policy frame for a #naturerepairmarket. There is palpable excitement. And so good that #NaturePositive is not "#Netpositive". #Natureoffsets make no sense. 🐨 Nature infrastructure is strong #Naturerepair requires systems. And Australia’s are among the best. Institutions such as NRM Regions Australia, the Australian Land Conservation Alliance, catchment authorities and Landcare support strategy and delivery across every one of the 54 bioregions. Our partner Healthy Land & Water is one of these and last week we launched ENVestor, the first truly bioregional investment instrument. 🚛 Finance and business are now key Smart businesses are getting #naturesmart. The Telstra summit showed the willingness of many leading businesses to #investinnature. And TNFD and the Nature Positive Initiative among others are lighting the path. But we still need simpler and more joined up #metrics linked to reliable tech like FLINTpro and Planr. And then scaled up #finance. We were very pleased to announce our new N+ Facility with Mercer this week. 🪃 The future is indigenous #Firstnations rightfully held first place. And groups like the Indigenous Desert Alliance led by the wonderful Sam Murray are doing amazing things with #desertrangers. With 65,000 year of #resilience R&D, #indigenousknowledge is critical to navigating an increasingly #turbulentworld. Good on ya Oz! I’m proud! Elisabeth Mealey Julie McLellan Andrew O'Neill Barry J Hunter Ian Hamm MAICD FIPAA Alison Knoblauch Jody Gunn Victoria Marles AM Kate Andrews Estelle Parker Rik Irons-Mclean Leah Armstrong Adam Bester Louise Arkles Jeffrey Parrish Chrissy Grant Karen Sack Stewart Christie Tiahni Adamson Helen Oakman Karen Fitzherbert Lili Pechey Rob Waterworth David Major Damian Richmond Grad AICD, MA Theo Cynthia Mitchell AO Karen Sack

It's been an incredibly busy and fruitful few days for our team in #Australia, with the Lab's Paul Chatterton speaking at the Australian Land Conservation Alliance #PLC24 Conference and the #Telestra Business for #Nature Action Symposium, hot off the heels of an incredible inaugural Global Nature Positive Summit 2024. From all quarters, momentum for nature positive action is growing on the continent, and the last week has demonstrated strong commitment from #public and #private partners.

Following a big two days for regional NRM organisations at the #GlobalNaturePositiveSummit, we have moved into another big two days at Australian Land Conservation Alliance’s annual Private Land Conservation conference (PLC24). Over fifty people participated in the workshop NRM Regions Australia ran on Thursday afternoon on Natural Capital and the Landscape Scale. The workshop started out with a fantastic panel including two regional NRM organisations; Adam Bester CEO Glenelg Hopkins CMA & Karen Fitzherbert Team Lead Strategy and Partnerships, Local Land Services NSW and also, Paul Chatterton Lead and Founder Landscape Finance Lab, Helen Oakman Manager, Market Development, Primary Industries Productivity and Abatement Program NSW Government Department of Planning and Environment and NRM Regions Australia CEO Kate Andrews. The workshop also included an extremely fun and engaging Landscape Investment Game that allowed participants to experience both the challenges- and fantastic opportunities for maximising impact- of projects that are planned at the landscape scale. Thanks to Amble Studio who helped us develop the game.

That's a wrap! Many thanks to the organisers of the Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 for giving the Lab a platform to talk about the potential of #holistic #landscapes for #nature recovery, and the excellent work being done by our colleagues at NRM Regions Australia, Healthy Land & Water, ENVestor in #Australia

‘Australia is world class in this space’ says Landscape Finance Lab Paul Chatterton at the closing plenary of the #globalnaturepositivesummit - let’s get the message out, share proven solutions & scale good practice!! #naturepositive #tnfd #esg #sdg15

We're honoured to have shared a panel on #IntegratedLandscapeManagement (#ILM) with esteemed colleagues at Day 1 of the Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 where #Australia is demonstrating drive and #innovation in new #landscape #finance models. Lab Lead Paul Chatterton will be speaking tomorrow at the closing plenary.