Our mission
To identify Nature Positive investment opportunities and appropriate metrics to enable their monitoring and reporting, through renewable energy value chains.
Why?
- To achieve our shared goal of net-zero, while maintaining a thriving economy, it is vital to ensure that future social and economic developments bring positive outcomes for nature.
- This requires identifying new opportunities and incentives for investment in natural capital and ecosystem services. It also requires developing new ways in which these investments can be monitored and evaluated, to avoid greenwashing and ensure environmental incentives can be better incorporated into business decision-making.
Who?
- A collaboration between University of York, Lancaster University, NextEnergy Solar Fund and NextEnergy Capital, which aims to explore and provide effective solutions to this challenge, in the context of the solar investment sector.
- One of twelve projects that have been launched to explore the gaps and improve integration between the financial system and biodiversity.
Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) – UKRI
Our Teams
Contact Us
We are actively seeking multi-stakeholder participation in this work, so we can build a strong community to take it forwards. If you are actively interested in contributing, please contact us to get involved.
Our Awards
The IMPACT Awards seek to recognise and reward the work of impact investors everywhere, and highlight emerging pockets of best practice across all asset classes and all geographies.
The ‘Nature-Positive Investment Opportunities Through Solar Parks’ research was recognised by the IMPACT Award judges, with NextEnergy Solar Fund winning the ‘Award for Impact Research’.
