Sustainable Biz Magazine A4 March 2023 - Flipbook - Page 9
The projects:
Reducing commodity-driven
forest and biodiversity loss by
exploring and filling data gaps for
due diligence
Project lead: Dr Antje Ahrends, Royal
Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Dr
Jonathan Green, University of York
Financial rewards for improved
biodiversity outcomes
Project lead: Professor Paul
Brereton, Queen’s University of
Belfast
Co-creating and applying a theory
of change for biodiversity credits:
towards a nature-positive future
Project lead: Professor Richard Field,
University of Nottingham
Solent to Sussex Bay seascape
restoration network
Project lead: Professor Stephen
Fletcher, University of Portsmouth
and Dr Claire Evans, National
Oceanography Centre
Integrating finance and
biodiversity for a nature positive
future
Project lead: Professor Ben Groom,
University of Exeter
Nature positive small and
medium-sized enterprise finance
Project lead: Dr Robyn Owen,
Middlesex University
Science-based markets for nature
recovery
Project lead: Professor Richard
Pywell, UK Centre for Ecology and
Hydrology and Dr Steven Reece,
University of Oxford
Integrating nature-climate
scenarios and analytics for
financial decision-making
Project lead: Dr Nicola Ranger,
University of Oxford and Professor
Paula Harrison, UK Centre for
Ecology and Hydrology
Robust environmental, social and
governance data for biodiversity:
towards a spatially-sensitive
approach to sustainable finance
Project lead: Dr Steven Reece,
University of Oxford and Professor
Richard Pywell, UK Centre for
Ecology and Hydrology
Mediating the first transaction of
biodiversity stewardship credits
Project lead: Dr Axel Rossberg,
Queen Mary, University of London
Integrating finance and
biodiversity for a nature positive
future
Project lead: Dr Hannah Rudman,
Scotland’s Rural College, Dr
Christopher Ellis, Royal Botanic
Garden Edinburgh and Professor
Marc J Metzger, The University of
Edinburgh
Nature-positive investment
opportunities through solar parks
Project lead: Professor Piran White,
University of York
Multidisciplinary research
Further details on phase 2 of the
programme, in partnership with
Innovate UK, will be announced in
the new year.
Jacky Wood, Head of Business
Partnerships at Natural Environment
Research Council (NERC), said: “The
current United Nations Biodiversity
conference (COP15) negotiation
is highlighting the importance of
building biodiversity into financial
systems.
“This new research will help address
knowledge gaps, supporting the
transition to a more nature-positive
global financial system.
“This new investment adds to NERC’s
growing ‘Green Finance’ portfolio.
It will bring together a community
of researchers and experts from
across disciplines to help the finance
sector be part of the recovery
and restoration of our natural
environment.”
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