Nature Finance Learning Group (EKN)

📢 Join our upcoming webinar, Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs): delivering resilient outcomes for businesses, communities and nature in Wales, to discover how LENs brings farmers, businesses, businesses, public bodies, NGOs, and other land managers together to enhance landscapes and livelihoods.   📅 30th January, 1pm To register: https://lnkd.in/eVnGUBPf   Our speaker, Will Stephens, LENs Commercial Relationships Advisor, 3Keel, will explore how By assembling diverse partnerships with a shared interest in the health and resilience of productive landscapes, LENs creates a framework for multiple landscape beneficiaries to pay farmers and landowners to protect and enhance ecosystem services. Drawing on case studies from other LENs regions, we will hear how the LENs model works in practice, and share exploratory work underway for a first LENs in Wales.   This webinar forms the first of our upcoming webinar series for our new Welsh Forum | Finance for the Sustainable Management of Land and Water in Wales. Sign up to our new Welsh Forum mailing list to stay in-the-know about future Wales-focused webinars, relevant news updates, and action from across Wales.   For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/eQJxeuyM #Wales #Sustainable #LandManagement

Calling all nature market participants! Public comments for the first thematic standard for UK biodiversity markets (BSI Flex 702 v1.0) closes this Friday, 17 January.  This specification builds on the overarching principles for all nature markets and sets clear requirements for biodiversity outcomes, aiming to support the design of nature projects that drive clarity, quality, and consistency. What are your views on the standard? Share them now: https://lnkd.in/ez6s-Ddw Thank you for helping shape the future of UK biodiversity markets. #Biodiversity #NatureMarkets #BSIStandards #NatureInvestment 

Can you spare time to respond to this consultation by The Broadway Initiative? The UK Nature Markets Dialogue is currently consulting on what is required to establish an effective nature market governance framework in the UK. The consultation will run until 28 February 2025. The UK Nature Markets Dialogue is bringing together a coalition of experts from the finance, business, farming and environment sectors to support UK nature market development by building a consensus on nature market policy, infrastructure and governance. https://lnkd.in/e_7pJGbX

Launched today, landmark IPBES assessment of interlinked global challenges in biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change, and the need for a joined-up approach to tackle them. 📚 >70 options presented to help manage these nexus elements and deliver multiple benefits 🌍 165 experts from 57 countries 🔦 6500 sources of knowledge ⏳ 3 years of work Congratulations to co-chairs Prof Paula Harrison from UKCEH and Prof Pamela McElwee of Rutgers University and all the experts involved throughout the process! The report describes how interacting crises compound each other, making separate efforts to address them ineffective. It outlines options and actions for decision-makers around the world ✅ Biodiversity is declining at every level from global to local, and across every region, the report states, having direct and dire impacts on food security and nutrition, water quality and availability, health and wellbeing outcomes, resilience to climate change and almost all of nature’s other contributions to people. More than half of global gross domestic product – over $50 trillion of annual economic activity around the world – is moderately to highly dependent on nature. But, the authors say, current decision-making has prioritised short-term financial returns while ignoring costs to nature. This is having significant negative knock-on effects on biodiversity loss, climate change, water availability and human health. However a number of actions, from national to community level, are available to sustainably manage these challenges, many of which are also low cost.   Numerous case studies of the successful implementation of response options from across the globe are highlighted. For example, an innovative project in rural Senegal cut water pollution and removed invasive aquatic plants in order to reduce the habitat for snails hosting parasitic worms that cause bilharzia, a disease that can cause life-long ill health and affects 200 million people worldwide. The report also highlights agroecology as a holistic response option for shifting agricultural production systems towards the sustainable management of biodiversity, crops and other resources. After a week of negotiations, the Nexus assessment summary was approved on 16 December 2024 at the 11th session of the IPBES Plenary – made up of representatives of the 147 governments that are members of IPBES – at Windhoek, Namibia. See the IPBES release and link to summary report: https://lnkd.in/d__2Hn6m Read our news summary: https://lnkd.in/ekkS9_2i #NexusAssessment #biodiversity #water

❓ Do you want to share your work at a leading UK conference❓ ⏰ One week to go to submit your #papers and #posters to present your work at #envecon 2025! envecon, run by the UK Network for Environmental Economists, is the UK's premier applied #environmental #economics conference. Held annually at The Royal Society in London, envecon brings a large delegation of business and policy professionals together with researchers showcasing cutting-edge research utilising environmental economics. For more information and to submit your work before EOD Sunday, November 17, go here: https://lnkd.in/eE8y7JAK