Last week our Chairman David Hill gave a webinar for the Natural Capital Investment Forum on the subject of ‘Building the foundations of a restoration economy – raising investment for habitat banks’.
David covered a wide range of topics regarding habitat banks including; the benefits, opportunities and barriers for initial setup and potential investment vehicles going forward.
The webinar can be viewed in full by going to https://ecosystemsknowledge.net/investmentforum
Alternatively, the slides from the presentation can be viewed here
With some Q and A questions and answers here
David is chairman and founding owner of The Environment Bank Ltd which he set up in 2006 to introduce the concept of compensation, via biodiversity offsetting and habitat banking, into the UK because of his concerns at the way biodiversity was treated within the planning and development sector.
David’s concept of biodiversity compensation, ensuring developments provide net gains to biodiversity, has been embedded in the government’s 25-year Environment Plan and National Planning Policy Framework and is being mandated through the enactment of the Environment Bill in autumn 2021 such that biodiversity net gain will be a requirement on all development’.