Science-based Markets for Nature Recovery

1.我们的经济、生计和福祉依赖于生物多样性和相关的生态系统服务。然而，由于栖息地丧失、气候变化、污染、入侵物种和病原体，物种正在以有记录以来最快的速度减少。2.公共和慈善资金不足以扭转这些下降，在英国造成了估计为56亿英镑的私人融资缺口。实现有意义的自然恢复需要一套复杂的以科学为主导的方法，这对于金融机构理解和有意义地参与或评估结果都是有问题的。3.在为自然恢复建立高度完整的投资市场方面存在四个障碍：㈠需要高质量的生态数据和模型，以保证干预措施将为自然带来惠益; ㈡需要在投资模型中反映出使干预措施为自然带来的多种惠益最大化和使不利风险最小化的潜力，允许多个投资者对综合项目进行投资; ㈢需要有能力瞄准大规模改善环境的机会，以最大限度地增加对自然的多种惠益，并提高对气候变化的适应能力; ㈣一旦启动基于自然的投资，就需要根据全球商定的标准进行可靠的监测和核查，以确定投资回报并降低投资风险。我们将建立一个由金融部门、主要土地所有者和生态研究人员组成的专家社区，以扩大解决这些障碍所需的知识范围，为自然恢复建立一个以科学为基础的投资市场，并支持该计划第二阶段更广泛的目标。我们将举办便利的用户需求研讨会，汇集领先的金融部门合作伙伴，主要土地所有者和研究人员的网络，以确定关键的知识差距，并共同定义任何新数据和工具的功能，以实现稳健和高度完整的自然积极投资市场。6.实地会议（实验室）将在三个实验平台进行基于自然的干预：商业农场，大规模盐沼和泥炭地恢复网站。将提出核实管理干预措施成果的方法，并进行实地评估。结构化的利益相关者访谈将量化这些工具的可接受性和信心。7.我们将运用我们的集体知识，以及新的数据和评估工具，以三个客户案例研究的例子，由金融合作伙伴提供。这将使真实的世界测试现有的数据和工具，以进一步阐明关键的知识差距。我们将把调查结果作为案例研究的例子与吸取的经验教训一起发表。8.总的来说，该项目的产出将立即为金融部门和自然积极投资的潜在市场带来有益的结果。第二阶段的关键投入将是我们共同定义的用户需求、知识差距以及提供基线信息和研究的路线图。

1. Our economy, livelihoods and well-being are dependent on biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. Yet, species are declining at the fastest rate recorded, driven by habitat loss, climate change, pollution, invasive species and pathogens. 2. Public and philanthropic funding have been insufficient to reverse these declines, creating a private financing gap estimated at £5.6 billion pa in the UK. Achieving meaningful nature recovery requires a complex set of science-led approaches, which is problematic for financial institutions to both understand and engage with meaningfully, or to assess the outcomes. 3. There are four barriers to developing high-integrity investment markets for nature recovery: i) high quality ecological data and models are required to provide assurance that interventions will provide benefits to nature; ii) the potential for maximising multiple benefits of interventions for nature and minimising the risk of dis-benefits needs to be reflected in investment models, allowing multiple investors in aggregated projects to invest; iii) capability to target opportunities for environmental enhancement at scale is required to maximise multiple benefits to nature and increase resilience to climate change; and iv) once nature-based investments are instigated, reliable monitoring and verification to globally agreed standards is required to determine return on investment and reduce investment risk.4. We will develop a community of experts from the financial sector, major landowners and ecological researchers to scope the knowledge required to address these barriers to developing a science-based investment markets for nature recovery, and support the wider ambitions of Phase II of the programme.5. We will hold facilitated user-requirements workshops bringing together a network of leading financial sector partners, major landowners and researchers to identify key knowledge gaps and co-define the capabilities of any new data and tools to enable robust and high integrity nature positive investment markets. 6. Field meetings (labs) will be held at three experimental platforms undertaking nature-based interventions: a commercial farm, and large-scale saltmarsh and peatland restoration sites. Methodologies for verifying the outcomes of management interventions will be presented and assessed in situ. Structured stakeholder interviews will quantify acceptability and confidence in these tools. 7. We will apply our collective knowledge, together with new data and tools assessed, to three client case study examples supplied by finance partners. This will enable real world testing of existing data and tools to further elucidate critical knowledge gaps. We will publish the findings as case study examples alongside lessons learned. 8. Collectively, outputs from the project will have immediately beneficial outcomes for the finance sector and potential markets for nature-positive investments. Key input into Phase II will be our co-defined user requirements, knowledge gaps and a roadmap for delivering baseline information and research.