Environment Bank is part of a portfolio of pioneering companies in the Gresham House Sustainable Infrastructure Fund and has played a vital role in shaping UK environmental policy. With an initial investment of £240m, the Environment Bank team are establishing an expanding network of landscape-scale nature recovery projects. Uniquely, these projects are fully funded and designed to deliver the best possible social and environmental impacts.
With thousands of hectares of restoration underway, biodiversity outcomes are the driving force of their nature recovery projects. Working with the land to maximise the uplift in ecosystem services and natural capital value – including wider, people-focused asset classes – employing best practice methodologies and innovative monitoring systems.
Biodiversity Credits are Environment Bank’s newest natural capital asset class, built upon the same robust principles that underpin the Biodiversity Net Gain statutory frameworks in England. These high-integrity Biodiversity Credits provide businesses with a mechanism to achieve their nature positive targets, making meaningful and legitimate actions that net measurable, nature-positive outcomes.
Raised by Environment Bank’s ecologists, their Biodiversity Units holistically deliver impactful uplifts for biodiversity and natural capital in a way that can tangibly be quantified for stakeholders. They also provide a measurable social impact, including improving job opportunities, boosting rural economies, offering better access to nature, and providing equitable economic outcomes for all.