Building thriving nature markets: UK biodiversity policy as a blueprint

As nature-related risks become an urgent priority across corporate and policy agendas, there is growing demand for robust, scalable models to measure and manage biodiversity impacts.

England’s Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) policy is one of the most developed examples of a regulated biodiversity market, providing a structured framework and metric for both assessing ecological losses and quantifying positive gains made through habitat restoration.

This session will explore how the BNG framework is being delivered in practice, with a focus on how the UK biodiversity metric has enabled a thriving nature market and helped businesses to avoid and reduce their ecological impacts in a measurable way.

Where impacts on nature cannot be avoided, the same framework is also enabling large-scale compensation through Habitat Banks. This is creating new income streams for landowners, channelling substantial investment directly into nature, and delivering tangible benefits for local ecosystems and communities.

Environment Bank, the leading BNG provider, will share how its team are exceeding the baseline requirements of the UK metric by incorporating additional data tracking improvements in water quality, flood management, soil health, carbon capture, and other ecosystem services to gain a more holistic understanding of the broader benefits.

We will explore how this additionality – looking beyond biodiversity – is fundamental to unlocking voluntary nature markets emerging in the UK and around the world. This includes Nature Shares, Environment Bank’s innovative product now launched for the voluntary market, which enable businesses to invest in large-scale nature projects like Bog Hall Habitat Bank at England's iconic Castle Howard Estate.

We will also introduce the Americas Biodiversity Metric, a voluntary model developed by Ramboll using the BNG framework. Companies across the Americas have already begun to adopt this new metric to enhance their nature strategy, strengthen their nature-related disclosures (such as TNFD and SBTN), and enable them to invest in net-positive outcomes for nature. 

With practical insight from the UK’s leading BNG provider, this session will explore...

• How the biodiversity metric is guiding both impact avoidance and compensation
• How habitat banking enables us to deliver positive outcomes at scale
• How the UK metric has been adapted to create the Americas Biodiversity Metric
• How companies are already using the voluntary metric (with examples)
• How biodiversity data can be leveraged to show gains in natural capital value
• What is working, what needs to evolve, and what is next on the horizon

This is an exclusive session designed for senior leaders...

• From companies that are looking for credible and measurable approaches to nature
• From public sector organisations that are developing their nature or land use policy
• In sustainability roles where they are responsible for nature-related disclosure

We may need to decline registrations from those outside these parameters if capacity is reached.

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