Rebalance Earth

And in today's episode, we're going to explore how it works, why we should care and what's already happening on the ground.

So I am delighted to be joined by two expert practitioners in this space and really head of origination from Rebalance Earth, and Isabel Milligan, Head of Natural Capital Portfolio Development from Great Yellow.

So welcome, Anne, and is to Planet Possible.

It's great to have you with us.

So the size of the challenge essentially outstrips government funding.

And oftentimes that philanthropic and conservation-led approach is too small scale to really yield the sorts of value and benefits that things like natural flood management can give us, but that need to be done on a really large scale to have that benefit.

And as a result, the gap is really where organisations like Rebalance Earth and others are coming in, which is figuring out privately funded or institutionally capital backed ways of actually funding these projects.

If we can treat nature as infrastructure, we can learn a lot from the way that we fund infrastructure to enable us to design projects where because nature is essentially also shared infrastructure, we can put in place models where you have Potentially very large scale, blended finance models where you might bring together some government money in addition to private capital to be able to do the upfront work.