The Nature Brief for Business.

The Big Picture

Momentum is building across sustainability reporting, biodiversity target-setting, and nature finance. Reporting frameworks are aligning to ease adoption, corporates are embedding biodiversity into strategy, and capital is flowing into blended finance initiatives. Meanwhile, biodiversity credits and nature tech continue to scale with innovative approaches.

Key movements this week:

• Business is stepping up biodiversity action, from governance to pollination.
• Finance is diversifying with satellites, space data, and agriculture strategies.
• Biodiversity credit markets are evolving, with new national schemes and investor-focused tools.

Market Essentials

Finance: New funding vehicles and blended finance tools are expanding the nature-positive investment landscape.

• New Forests, an Australian asset manager, launched a A$750 million agriculture strategy targeting biodiversity and carbon markets in the Indo-Pacific. Sustainable timberland and agriculture are drawing growing interest from institutional investors, reflecting a broader shift toward nature-based strategies that deliver both measurable climate impact and long-term financial returns.
• A nature financing initiative backed by the European Space Agency is using satellite data to develop biodiversity credit indicators. This initiative has launched six pilot projects, with the development of a biodiversity credit indicator as one of them, highlighting the growing role of technology in creating tools for nature valuation and financing
• French startup Versant raised seed funding of €500,000. The nature tech startup will use this to develop its platform, which helps integrate biodiversity into early planning for infrastructure, especially in renewable energy projects.

Targets: Restoration and Nature-Positive Commitments on the Rise

• Mannok has established a biodiversity committee to oversee nature protection and restoration across its business. The UK-based buildings materials and packaging group has already started a tree-planting project at the company’s insulation plant.
• Compleat Food Group have partnered with AgriSound to monitor pollinators using bioacoustics, embedding biodiversity into UK pork supply chains. The collaboration will allow the business to measure the effectiveness of biodiversity-friendly landscaping efforts.

Trend Watch.

Biodiversity Credits: The credit market is gaining traction through new schemes and investor-focused innovations.

• Indonesia’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry is exploring a national biodiversity credit scheme.
• UK-based Foundation For Nature is building a ratings agency to boost trust in credit markets.
• The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development is advancing biodiversity credits in rural areas to reward smallholder farmers.

Nature Tech: Tech is transforming nature finance and monitoring with satellite and AI-driven solutions.

• Data firm Fugro and software company Spoor are developing an AI-powered bird monitoring tool for offshore wind projects.
• Ghana is rolling out digital mapping tools to track national biodiversity progress.
• ZSL spotlighted the use of satellite-based monitoring as a “blood test from space” for nature loss.
  

Nature and Net Zero: Nature-based solutions are taking centre stage in climate strategies.

• The EU is moving to embed biodiversity in renewable energy auctions.
• Pakistan is scaling restoration of blue carbon ecosystems as part of its climate resilience push.
• Scotland is prioritising peatland restoration for joint climate and biodiversity impact.

Quick Hits.

Policy:

• European Commission finalises amendments to the anti-deforestation law, easing compliance pressure.
• UK faces scrutiny over ecosystem risks from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
• Slovakia plans to permit hunting of 350 brown bears, raising legal and ethical concerns.

Investment:

• The SEC approved Green Impact Exchange (GIX), the first sustainability-focused stock market in the U.S., aiming to list companies with binding sustainability commitments and increase investor transparency.
• Campbell Global closed a $1.5 billion Forest and Climate Fund, which is the largest timberland fund in a decade. The timberland investment advisory is owned by J.P.Morgan Asset Management.
• Dedicated closed-end timberland funds have raised $6.1 billion since 2023, indicating a significant inflow of capital into this sector

People:

• Brazil launched a $26 million fund for Indigenous-led ecological restoration.
• Yezidi women in Iraq are leading environmental recovery in degraded areas.
• Scotland’s Land Commission released guidance for community engagement in restoration efforts.

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