This excellent summary by Paul Turner-Smith very much echoes the feelings and thoughts of RESTORE as we enter 2025: the year of unlocking natural capital, alongside others such as Oxygen Conservation and Nattergal Ltd in the nature restoration market.
Across 2024, our key focus was on growing acres and clients; ensuring we have a sound nature restoration portfolio - one that thankfully continues to grow, as demand from landowners for restoring their land grows apace. However, as we move into 2025, it is critical that we accelerate change on the ground, and unlocking natural capital - on sites awaiting but yet to feel the full force of nature restoration uplift - will be key.
The core barrier for landowners and especially smaller-acreage farmers wishing to restore nature - whether process-led ecological restoration ("rewilding") at scale, or recovery of functioning habitats in farmland - is finance at the front end. It's all very well having cash later, but how do you transition a farm dependent upon intensive processes, without enormous risk?
There is a growing realisation and acceptance that by restoring nature, capital can be unlocked in the future - but still an annoying lack of emphasis, if you are a farmer, on how capital can 'bridge' the gap, and help you transition from extractive land practice towards restorative, with the certainty needed to carry out bold change with confidence.
This year, RESTORE and its growing natural capital team, led by Gil Martin, will be pushing further than before in ensuring transitions into restoration are de-risked, and natural capital products that deliver up-front certainty will be a critical piece of this puzzle.
What could 2025 have in store for natural capital? 🌱
From scaling carbon transactions to the rise of nature-positive investment funds, this year has the potential to be a turning point for natural capital in the UK – and beyond.
Alex Godfrey, our Natural Capital Investment Director, shares five key developments he thinks will reshape markets, restore ecosystems, and align environmental and financial goals.
Read Alex’s outlook here: https://bit.ly/40Bzjaj
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