❗ NEW GUIDANCE: Make nature count in your community with the just-released "Getting Nature into Financial Reporting"! The purpose of this guide is to help governments include natural asset disclosures in their financial reports, building on existing relevant international and national guidance and standards. 🌱 Getting Nature into Financial Reporting - Natural Asset Disclosure for Local Governments: https://lnkd.in/eyjp3--E ___ ❗ NOUVEAU: Faites en sorte que la nature compte dans votre communauté avec le guide « Inscrire la nature dans les rapports financiers »! Le guide a pour but d’aider les gouvernements locaux canadiens à inclure les divulgations sur les actifs naturels dans leurs rapports financiers, en s’appuyant sur les lignes directrices et les normes nationales et internationales. 🌱 Inscrire la nature dans les rapports financiers - divulgation des actifs naturels par les gouvernements locaux: https://lnkd.in/eDvzxVji Joanna Eyquem PGeo. ENV SP. CWEM. CEnv. Roy Brooke Michelle Molnar Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation | Centre Intact d’adaptation au climat KPMG Canada Standards Council of Canada (SCC) #ClimateAdaptation #NaturalAssetManagement #GettingNatureOntTheBalanceSheet
Natural Assets Initiative (NAI)
Non-profit Organization Management
Helping local governments identify, value & account for natural assets in their financial planning & asset management
About us
The Natural Assets Initiative (NAI) is changing the way communities deliver everyday services, increasing the quality and resilience of infrastructure at lower costs and reduced risk. The NAI team provides scientific, economic, and civic expertise to support and guide local governments, watershed agencies, Indigenous Nations, and others in identifying, valuing and accounting for natural assets in their financial planning and asset management programs, and in developing leading-edge, sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure. Local governments across Canada are faced with significant asset management challenges. Many of the services they provide — including water and wastewater, waste removal, transportation, and environmental services —depend, in large part, on engineered infrastructure assets that are in need of renewal. Meanwhile, the effects of climate change are expected to put even more strain on these assets and on local government budgets. To provide community services in a cost effective and sustainable manner now and in to the future, local governments are looking for ways to improve management of the critical assets that supply these services. Asset management—the process of inventorying a community’s existing assets, determining the current state of those assets, and preparing and implementing a plan to maintain or replace those assets — allows municipalities to make informed decisions regarding a community’s assets and finances. Unfortunately, local governments lack policies to measure and manage one class of assets: natural assets. Natural assets are ecosystem features that provide, or could be restored to provide, services just like the other engineered assets, but historically have not been considered on equal footing or included in asset management plans.
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www.naturalassetsinitiative.ca
External link for Natural Assets Initiative (NAI)
- Industry
- Non-profit Organization Management
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Victoria
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2016
- Specialties
- Nature-based solutions, green infrastructure, Climate-resilient infrastructure, Natural assets, Ecosystem service delivery, Asset Management, Policy, Financial Planning, Stormwater Management, Environmental economics, Nature service valuation, Natural infrastructure, and Natural asset management
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Victoria, CA
Employees at Natural Assets Initiative (NAI)
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Joanna Eyquem PGeo. ENV SP. CWEM. CEnv.
Vice President, Climate Risk Institute | Board Chair, Natural Assets Initiative | Committee Advisor | Media Outreach
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Donna Chiarelli
Helping to build healthy, prosperous and resilient communities.
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Roy Brooke
Executive Director at Natural Assets Initiative & Principal, Brooke & Associates
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Ellery Lamm
Writer, Filmmaker, Storyteller
Updates
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The City of St. Albert is growing — but at a rate of 2% a year, the demand for land is leading to a rapid loss of the region's #wetlands and other #NaturalAssets. With limited policy levers or legislation to protect natural areas in Alberta, the City's Environmental Coordinator, Melissa Logan, sees #NaturalAssetManagement as a valuable way that Prairie local governments can preserve critical #NaturalInfrastructure services like #flood mitigation and #drought resilience. Check out our blog with Melissa as she shares the steps St. Albert is taking to advance NAM, including: 🔹 Completing their Natural Asset Management Roadmap 🔹 Seeking funding to develop a natural asset inventory to support better land use decision-making across departments 🔹 Collaborating with partners like North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance to share the workload and address concerns at the watershed level 🔹 Updating multiple strategies and plans to improve natural area protections and allow for more green and hybrid infrastructure solutions Blog: https://lnkd.in/eni8iC7i #ABMunis #NatureBasedSolutions #ClimateAdaptation #Alberta #GreenInfrastructure
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New to #AssetManagement? Don't miss out on the subsidized professional training offerings from NAMS Canada! Kicking off April 14, the (Expanded) Professional Certificate in Asset Management Planning is a foundational start to AM, and: 🔸 Is recognized as a global standard in asset management training 🔸 Provides hands-on experience using your own data to draft an AM plan 🔸 Includes #ClimateChange resilience, #GreenInfrastructure, and #Equity considerations for asset management. See details and register: https://lnkd.in/gqX3G2Db ClimateWest
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🔔 NEW from the International Institute for Sustainable Development: Funding the Future presents practical steps to enable natural infrastructure solutions through federal $ programs so that communities can benefit from cost-effective, climate-resilient solutions. Why? Local governments need affordable infrastructure options with long-lasting value. #NaturalInfrastructure offers resilient solutions to deliver, enhance, or protect water infrastructure services, whether as a complement or replacement to more expensive traditional infrastructure. 🟢 Critically, this report highlights not just why we need to fund natural infrastructure, but HOW federal funding programs can better enable local governments to invest in natural infrastructure. IISD provides 14 practical criteria to effectively include natural infrastructure within major #infrastructure projects. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gAQ5_jyC Natural Infrastructure on the Canadian Prairies
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🌊 A new study of Florida's coastline reveals that areas with the best protection — meaning healthy #NaturalAssets like salt marshes and mangroves — saw significantly fewer flood #insurance claims per month than other coastal areas. "Even after accounting for other flood risk factors, we consistently found that the frequency of insurance claims approximately halved in areas of high coastal habitat protection" - Swiss Re This study highlights how vital #natural areas are in mitigating the impacts from #ExtremeWeather events and climate change, AND points to opportunities for the insurance industry to support the conservation of natural areas for the valuable risk reduction benefits. Read the full publication from SwissRe ⤵️
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Build your professional #NaturalAssetManagement knowledge and learn how to advance sustainable service delivery in your region with the 🎓 Natural Asset Management Fundamentals course at Royal Roads University! Register today: https://lnkd.in/gfzHPwv #ClimateAdaptation #NaturalInfrastructure #ClimateEducation #Training
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📣 NEWS: NAI scaling up support to 🍁 local governments as partner of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities ___ We're excited to expand our training & capacity programs and help communities build #ClimateResilience through #NaturalAssetManagement (NAM), with support through Green Municipal Fund's Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation initiative! Through this program NAI and partners are able to expand a number of initiatives to support municipalities, as well as practitioners and other organizations' abilities to work with nature for sustainable service delivery, including: 🔶 The Natural Asset Management Roadmap Program, now accepting EOIs: https://lnkd.in/ewcsyWkA 🔶 Professional Asset Management Training with a focus on climate adaptation, equity, and sustainability, offered through NAMS Canada in partnership with NAI & ClimateWest: https://lnkd.in/gj-FnzrC 🔶 A 4-part workshop series that will equip local government staff with knowledge and guidance on how to develop #AssetManagement plans that effectively include #NaturalAsset considerations (registration opening late spring 2025) 🔶A “Train the Trainer” workshop on NAM fundamentals for organizations wishing to build key concepts and good practices into their own climate adaptation training. FCM has been a critical partner in helping NAI make NAM a mainstream practice across Canada. Stay on top of updates by subscribing to our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/erkawetH ____ Related - Canada and FCM invest $30 million to build resilient communities: https://lnkd.in/gTWh88pT
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Natural Assets Initiative (NAI) reposted this
Wonderful to see my Natural Assets Initiative (NAI) colleague Michelle Molnar in person at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Sustainable Communities Conference, joined by our board member Joanna Eyquem PGeo. ENV SP. CWEM. CEnv. from the Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation | Centre Intact d’adaptation au climat. They are participating in a panel discussion on natural asset management, organized by the Canadian Standards Association. Wonderful that FCM is prioritizing this content at the conference, and in doing so, signalling that natural infrastructure and #naturebasedsolutions are critical in managing costs and risks of service delivery — particularly in the context of increasing #climaterisks.
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Update: Thank you to all those interested! Please note we are no longer accepting applications for this position. __ 🌟 We are hiring! NAI is seeking an organized and detail-oriented individual to join our team as the Project and Operations Assistant. This is a full-time, 18-month contract #opportunity with possibility of extension. Please apply by February 21, 2025. If you want to surround with a great team and support #NatureBasedSolutions in Canada, we would love to meet you! See full details below or on our website at https://lnkd.in/gapND76H #Hiring #ProjectAssistant #OperationsAssistant #GreenJobs #Canada #Remote
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Our very own Paige Olmsted will be at GlobexChange by GLOBE Series, providing expertise on investment strategies for watershed security. Co-hosted with gwen bridge and Roy Brooke, this interactive workshop on Feb. 11 will explore investment models and mechanisms to supply sustainable and flexible funding for watershed projects. Participants will look at the strategies to scale investments for global adaptation and conservation goals. Check out the full programme and register: https://lnkd.in/eVzvnCKQ #naturefinance #conservationfinance #globeseries #GLOBExCHANGE #sustainablefinance #conservation #watersheds Natural Assets Initiative (NAI)