What’s in it for your business?

Your inputs will inform the design of new “Impact Claims”, which will enable businesses to demonstrate support for high quality nature restoration projects that deliver measurable local impact, helping biodiversity to recover, increasing climate resilience while also benefiting local communities.

Join BioCap and Finance Earth for a workshop to explore how your business can play its role to helps address climate change and biodiversity loss, and also get ahead of the curve as Nature, ESG, and Sustainability, move up the corporate agenda.

 Explore how to:

• Help reverse biodiversity loss and sequester carbon across the Thames Valley
• Turn nature-related risks into strategic opportunities
• Meet ESG, CSR, TNFD, and other sustainability reporting requirements
• Boost resilience, reputation, and stakeholder trust

You’ll also discover:

• Opportunities to invest in and support nature recovery in Berkshire
• How to future-proof your business against emerging environmental standards
• Real-world case study of landowner-led restoration in action
• Q&A with industry experts and regional partners

Why now?

Biodiversity loss and climate change are material business risks – but also an opportunity for innovation, impact, and leadership. Investing in nature restoration now can secure the future environmental outcomes that will help to meet future nature-related reporting requirements, while also creating opportunities to generate returns on investment. This workshop is part of a Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund (NEIRF) supported project delivered by BioCap in collaboration with Finance Earth to unlock innovative finance for nature.

 Agenda

This workshop will be fully interactive with opportunities for Q&A and discussion throughout

• 11;30am: Introductions
  • Why a business should be interested – Nature and climate risks, the strength of local
  • Future standards be an early adopter and get ahead of the process – ESG, CSR, TNFD
• 12:00pm: The art of the possible: case studies and examples [TBC]
  • Case studies from the Thames Valley and across the UK
• 12:30pm: Impact Claims
  • A regional approach to funding and aggregating nature restoration
  • Discussion
• 1pm: Close

Further Information

About “Impact Claims”

There is growing recognition of the importance of nature for our economy, businesses and wellbeing. However, nature is in decline in the UK and globally, and current funding for nature restoration is insufficient to reverse this trend – an additional £97 billion in funding is required on top of current commitments to achieve the UK’s nature targets by 2030.

There are growing opportunities for nature restoration projects to access the private funding they need, while enabling businesses to contribute meaningfully to tackling the nature and climate crises. These include the sale of carbon credits and biodiversity units.

However, there remains a lack of suitable verification standards and frameworks for many of the other environmental and social impacts delivered by nature-based solutions. This project is offering businesses the opportunity to co-design an Impact Claims approach, where they can support high-integrity nature projects across Berkshire in return for the right to make certain quantitative environmental statements describing such support and expected impacts.

This approach could allow businesses to make specific claims based on the outcomes the supported projects are expected to deliver, such as:

• Carbon storage
• Increased biodiversity
• Flood regulation and water quality improvements
• Recreation and wellbeing benefits

This session is an opportunity for businesses to help design Impact Claims to ensure they meet their needs. Please register your interest here: [LINK]

 About BioCap

BioCap is working to reverse environmental decline through the development of local, investable, Nature-based Solutions. They are working with landowners to pilot this new approach across eight farms covering over 250 hectares in West Berkshire. Impact Claims could help implement high-quality nature restoration at these sites, including species-rich grassland, native woodland planting, and the creation of new wetlands, ponds and hedgerows, all delivering environmental and social impacts.

About Finance Earth

Founded in 2016, Finance Earth is a leading environmental impact investment boutique, offering financial advisory and fund management services. We are an employee-owned and award-winning social enterprise that makes finance work for conservation, climate and communities.

We provide regulated financial advisory and investment management services focused on scaling high- integrity, high-impact investment into nature, whilst ensuring communities are central to solutions. We also have extensive experience in designing financing solutions for Nature-Based Solutions, and in building ecosystem services markets.