I'm delighted to be joined by Diana Denke who has generously offered to bring us an overview of what can be done to bring more financing towards nature.

For generations wealth and financial markets have benefited from the extraction and depletion of the natural world to the extent that we're globally facing a crisis of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse.

There is a firm recognition of the need to protect, support and regenerate nature for the multi-faceted benefits that it brings to our economy, health, communities & climate.

But companies are facing a barrier when it comes to moving significant finance into projects for nature so there's a need for new approaches and further learning. 

Diana is passionate about nature regeneration and has a wealth of experience exploring investment opportunities into nature based solutions. She is the perfect voice to help us all to get a better grasp of the barriers, the challenges and possible paths forward. 

(For a further breakdown of this discussion see the timestamps below)

You can learn from Diana and her work with Fair Carbon here: https://www.faircarbon.org/

Find a video version of this conversation over on the website: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/nature-based-solutions-diana-denke/

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

04:34 - What are nature based solutions?

07:42 - The need & benefits of investing in nature

17:20 - Barriers to bringing finance into nature at scale

29:28 - Investing in carbon removal technology vs investing in nature

43:20 - Financing solutions for nature projects

50:35 - Collaborating to scale up projects?

54:20 - Diana's work with Fair Carbon [restoring coastal and marine ecosystems]