Collective Investment
Rebuilding Nature alliance members see the value of having a collective national nature investment vehicle that others can commit to knowing that it is underwritten by the state because of the value of the ecosystem services it will provide to society.
Members recognise that the Strategic Nature Network can:
- make the UK more socially, economically and ecologically resilient to current and future climate change thereby protecting our businesses, and the wider economy,
- benefit our employees, clients, customers, shareholders and communities in terms of their health and wellbeing, and
- strengthen the ecosystem services on which we all depend including food, timber, flood and drought resilience.
New approaches are needed now to rebuild this infrastructure and avoid ecological and climate collapse. “Conservation” has to become survival ecology delivered by all sectors of society working together.
In the UK 30/30/30 has to be based on restoring marginal land whilst productive land is farmed more sustainably, with lower inputs, to ensure food security. There is space for both. In fact we cannot have one without the other.
Ecosystem restoration enables food production through reduction in flood risk, provision of pollinators, and maintenance of conducive climatic regimes as well as revitalising the wider rural economy.
Moreover rebuilding nature is a massive investment opportunity because the restoration is ‘additional’ and works well in a market context.