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To deliver on the goals set at COP15, the upcoming UN Biodiversity COP16 will once again unite business leaders and policymakers to advance nature-positive action through impactful, catalytic collaboration. Pollination will have a strong presence at COP16 in Cali. If you're attending, we invite you to explore our events and find out how you can connect with our team during the conference. For more information and event details, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eBtbZHFs Jane "Carter" Ingram Matthew Cranford, PhD, CFA Helen Crowley Jane Hutchinson Ariadne Gorring Kirsty Galloway McLean Guy Michael Williams With thanks to our partners and collaborators Howden, Nature2, Barclays, The Rockefeller Foundation, World Benchmarking Alliance, IUCN, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), S&P Global #cop16 #biodiversity #nature

Launched today: a new report with Howden exploring the critical role insurance plays in enabling investments in nature-based solutions: https://lnkd.in/gDE3-i_8 As we reach the halfway point in a decisive decade for the future of our climate and nature, significant acceleration of private sector capital flows towards nature-based solutions is essential. Our report offers actionable insights for investors, insurers, policymakers, and the wider nature community. It highlights strategies to de-risk investments, mobilise capital, and leverage insurance innovation to protect natural assets. Going to be at #COP16Cali? Connect with Pollination's Jane "Carter" Ingram and Matthew Cranford, PhD, CFA who will be on the ground in Cali to chat about the report. #Cop16Cali #Insurance #NatureFinance #NbS Valerie Pinkerton Sage Bucher-Melcer Erin Gianferrara Annick G. Paradis Megan Flynn Patrick Suckling Geoff Summerhayes

Biodiversity underpins all economic activities and human well-being. Yet biodiversity - and the ecosystem services it provides - continue to decline at an alarming rate. Halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 will require urgent action to mobilise finance for biodiversity from all sources, public and private, domestic and international. Speaking ahead of COP16, Pollination Senior Advisor Helen Crowley will be joining the High-Level Plenary on 'Mobilising private finance for biodiversity' at the OECD - OCDE Forum on Green Finance & Investment on 16 October. This session will bring together leaders from the private sector to explore incentives, investment barriers and opportunities for scaling up private biodiversity finance. It will focus on biodiversity financing instruments, investment projects and financing channels, including blending of public and private finance. Register today: oe.cd/gfi-forum2024 #OECDgfi #GreenFinance

The Country Road Climate Fund was launched in 2022, with help from Pollination, and supports grassroots projects that mitigate climate change and build climate resilience. Congratulations to this year’s four successful projects – who receive part of $1.5 million to be allocated over the Fund’s first three years. Pollination’s Carter Ingram, who sat on the Fund’s assessment panel, said the pioneering thinking displayed by this year’s applicants was impressive. “Pollination has had the honour of being involved with setting up the Fund and has continued that involvement by helping select the winning projects,” she said. “It is wonderful to see the diversity of organizations and initiatives that are focused on supporting the Australian fashion and textiles industry’s efforts to address climate change and protect and restore nature.” “Country Road is at the forefront of industry leadership and the projects enabled by this year’s Fund demonstrate their commitment to climate change mitigation and nature.”  Meet this year’s successful projects: With a $200,000 grant from the Climate Fund, Greening Australia will partner with Merino wool farmers in Tasmania’s Midlands to plant approximately 30,000 native plants, to restore fragmented habitat and provide refuge for threatened animals.  A grant of $51,400 will support Mimal Women Rangers in Central Arnhem Land to access sacred sites and strengthen connection with their closest art centre. For these women, caring for Country and creating woven items are complementary activities, allowing them to monitor the threat of bushfire, conduct cool burns and watch over wildlife. With a $30,000 grant, RediRobots will deploy an advanced robotic arm at Textile Recyclers Australia setting a new standard in garment end-of-life processing and contributing to a more sustainable fashion industry. A grant of $139,700 to design firm A.BCH (ABCH Pty Ltd) will help fund a Circular Sourcing Surplus Guide, to support designers make circular design choices and re-use excess fabrics that would otherwise be landfill. The guide will include an impact calculator that allows users to measure and report on the greenhouse gases, water and waste savings generated through their usage of surplus fabrics. Find out more about these impactful projects at https://lnkd.in/gH6YUuDw Lauren Drake Olivia Back Country Road Group Cassandra Austen Georgia Monaghan Jane "Carter" Ingram Gemma Cahill #sustainablefashion #netzerotransition

Congratulations to The Crown Estate on the launch of their Nature Recovery Ambition - we are delighted to have supported them in the development of this important initiative.   The Crown Estate has set three key goals. It has pledged to deliver a measurable increase in biodiversity across land and sea by 2030. The second goal aims to protect and restore freshwater, marine, and coastal systems within Crown Estate’s influence by 2030. The final ambition is to reconnect people to nature by delivering health and well-being benefits by 2030, with a focus on community engagement across projects.   Pollination Executive Director Gemma Cranston said “This marks a significant milestone for The Crown Estate, highlighting their pivotal role in driving innovation and investment to regenerate and restore nature across land and sea. We are proud to have supported them in co-designing and refining their Nature Recovery Ambition and commend their commitment to a collaborative approach in tackling this crucial challenge." #naturerecovery #biodiversity

Pollination co-founder and CEO Martijn Wilder AM joined the Climatalist podcast for an engaging chat about his love for nature, what led him to found Pollination and how it has grown in just five years from seeing itself as an advisory and investment firm to a global 'climate and nature solutions company'. "The vast majority of strategic advice is to corporates and institutions that are involved in the climate and nature transition," he says. "Some of our clients will just say: 'we need assistance with how to decarbonise our business. We've committed to these targets. How do we do it? How do we find a business that can help solve this emissions problem?" "Others will say they would like a whole strategy on nature because nature is an important part of their supply chain." "We've helped investors understand climate risk and nature risk. We've helped people develop projects. It's a very broad strategic advisory practice." "But then what we also tend to do with those clients is work with them to implement the solutions, as projects or through funding acquisitions, through setting up a new business or fundraising. Whatever they need." Martijn also discusses: - The challenge of attracting capital to fund the climate and nature transition - The different skillsets that make up an expert team like Pollination's and the importance of a values based approach to hiring and growth. - The establishment of Climate Asset Management, Pollination's joint venture with HSBC that aims to be the world's leading fund for natural capital. - What the future holds for Pollination as it continues to grow and change Listen to the full interview with Anton Babkov at https://lnkd.in/gD6NuYTZ #naturalcapital #climatefinance Global Nature Positive Summit 2024

Climate change is increasingly effecting ecosystem services due to the devastating depletion of our Earth’s natural capital. Examples of these ecosystem services include pollination, erosion control, flood and storm protection, disease control and soil quality. Industries that are dependent on these ecosystem services are seeking systematic and application-oriented data and insights to assess risks and invest in adaptation strategies. Tomorrow Pollination Managing Director Jane "Carter" Ingram will join this live webinar which will address the emerging need to understand how physical risks associated with climate change will impact the natural capital and biodiversity that supports economic activity. Register to join this timely discussion: https://okt.to/oknJfT tomorrow at 10am ET / 3PM BST. #naturepositivesummit #cop16 #naturalcapital #ecosystems

As The Guardian sets the scene for this week's Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 they turn to Pollination's latest research into the state of voluntary biodiversity credit markets. "Pollination examined the 16 leading schemes globally and concluded that the results were encouraging, but also demonstrate just how far there is to go," Adam Morton writes. "Up to $1.8m worth of credits have been sold globally and the transactions have protected or restored up to 125,000 hectares of nature ... But at the moment there just aren’t enough credit purchases. Scientists have estimated $2bn a year is needed in Australia alone to halt nature destruction and help restore what has been lost." As the summit gets underway today Pollination's expert nature team will be there, sharing their insights and sense of urgency in events, discussions, meetings and panel discussions. Read the full Guardian piece at: https://lnkd.in/g2ymNzrX Download and read the full report https://lnkd.in/gbUa9zB6, #naturepositve #biodiversity Laura Waterford Jane Hutchinson Olivia Back Guy Michael Williams Veda FitzSimons Megan Flynn Beth Keddie

Pollination's Martijn Wilder AM and Andrew McConnell are putting a 'bold but achievable' idea on the table, with this piece in The Australian, as the Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 gets underway this week. The deterioration of nature is an existential threat to economies, companies and people everywhere. But the cost of repairing and restoring nature is estimated at more than US$1 trillion. Where will the capital come from to pay for this urgent transformation? Martijn and Andrew suggest that banks could be required to hold 'natural capital buffers' -- securing and maintaining a stipulated amount of natural capital in proportion to their environmentally risk-weighted assets. "Conventional capital buffers (under the Basel III framework) mitigate systemic risk by preventing a banking collapse, requiring financial institutions to hold sufficient capital to cover unforeseen losses," they write. "NCBs would mitigate systemic risk by preventing the collapse of nature." "In layman’s terms this would mean banks would be required to reserve money towards the conservation of nature, based on the extent of their risk exposure to natural systems collapse." Such a change would be bold but achievable. Read the full piece (paywalled) at: https://lnkd.in/gZ9zJJds #naturepositive #naturefinance #sustainablefinance

As Australia prepares to host next week's Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 Pollination's Laura Waterford moderated a panel at the pre-summit event 'Real Value for Nature,' hosted by The Katoomba Group. The panel discussed the current state of carbon, water, and biodiversity markets as well as their potential to help deliver the nature-positive goal. "Environmental market mechanisms have potential to help us reform the economy to stay within planetary boundaries," Laura said. "They are not the only tool, but they can have a meaningful role to play if we act now and get it right." The panel featured Qantas Acting Chief Sustainability Officer Fiona Messent, as well as Gena Gammie from Forest Trends Association, Erika Korosi from Conservation International and Barry J Hunter, CEO of North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance #naturepositive #biodiversitymarkets