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The Flow Country Green Finance Initiative aims to deliver ecological restoration, sustainable land use, a carbon investment model, support for circular business and community development. The regional aspiration, as defined through a stakeholder workshop, is to achieve a multi-use landscape where healthy and restored peatlands support globally significant biodiversity and climate protection, and a lively and prosperous region with high…
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We are a mission-driven social enterprise, working in partnership with world leading environmental organisations to protect and restore nature utilising market based mechanisms and implementing bespoke financial tools. We help create projects – and the investment vehicles to fund them – that balance positive outcomes for nature, communities and investors.
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We are a mission-driven social enterprise, working in membership with world leading environmental organisations to protect and restore nature utilising market based mechanisms and implementing bespoke financial tools. We help create projects – and the investment vehicles to fund them – that balance positive outcomes for nature, communities and investors.
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A grant scheme to help organisations and partnerships develop projects in Scotland that use private investment and market-based mechanisms to help finance the restoration of the natural environment in Scotland. Launched by NatureScot, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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What is "Conservation Finance"? Conservation Finance is an innovative and emerging investment sector, that seeks to leverage large-scale financial investment into nature. It aims to provide both a market-rate return on the investment, but also offer other economic, environmental and social benefits, helping us move towards a well-being economy with a positive conservation impact. It seeks to address a fundamental…
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The Scottish Forum on Natural Capital and Scottish Natural Heritage have joined forces with business, education and the arts industry to offer young people the opportunity to share work inspired by Scotland’s nature. The short film competition is seeking entries that combine passion and creative talent with the latest facts to make a powerful case for why businesses should…
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Nature offers multiple ways to tackle many of the issues we face as a result of a changing climate and our changing society. We have always sought help from nature, but only recently are we beginning to fully understand and appreciate the value of nature as a problem solver. In Scotland, communities are suffering from issues such as flooding, poor…
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The Scottish Forum recently hosted the first webinar for our new Conservation Finance Pioneers’ Working Group, that explored different options for investing in the marine environment. Hosted on our online Basecamp hub, the event was open to all members of the new working group, with three presentations from invited guests to introduce examples of marine funds, that are either established, or being developed, The aim of the webinar was…
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Lunch & Learn: Scotland’s Approach to RBMP4 and Natural Capital May 2025 Watch the recording of this Scottish Forum on Natural Capital Lunch & Learn webinar, where Roy Richardson from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) explores Scotland’s approach to River Basin Management Planning (RBMP) and early thinking on integrating a natural capital approach. RBMP is Scotland’s strategy for…
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Lunch & Learn: Scotland’s Approach to RBMP4 and Natural Capital Watch the recording of this Scottish Forum on Natural Capital Lunch & Learn webinar, where Roy Richardson from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) explores Scotland’s approach to River Basin Management Planning (RBMP) and early thinking on integrating a natural capital approach. RBMP is Scotland’s strategy for protecting and…