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A how-to guide on climate and nature positive investment
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A message from the Authors:
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"In this guide, we have sought to provide some tips and food for thought on how financiers can encourage nature-positive investment across their investment portfolios and identify pertinent issues to explore and relevant indicators for each sector. This space is becoming increasingly of interest to policy-makers, businesses and the wider investment ecosystem and new materials and ideas are being developed all the time. What we present here should be taken in the context of other relevant research and policy developments, particularly any regulatory drivers that might start to shape up in the coming months and years, particularly as the global Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) picks up its pace and influence on the market.
We hope that we have provided a useful resource that can support wider investment decision-making. In particular, to support UK SMEs and their financiers with the latest knowledge and most useful and practical tools and resources that can support nature-positive innovation in business that make up the majority of businesses in the UK economy.
To achieve these ends there will need to be some confident and effective first movers in nature-positive investment. We have given illustrative examples of some of these in this guide. In order to encourage more investors and businesses to move into this space, we hope that the simple inventory approach presented is a good start for market actors as well as B2B supply chains to encourage environmental decision-making in all aspects of investment.
We also encourage you to view other materials and resources that have been produced through the Middlesex University SME Financing for Biodiversity project and ongoing SME Nature Positive Finance for the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), available on our project web page: (click here). In particular, new ventures may wish to read our Sustainable Pitch Desk Best Practice presentation, to help prepare a sustainable pitch deck presentation to early stage equity impact investors which you can access here.
We will be using this guide to work practically with investors and SMEs in their supply chains in the coming months. In particular, we aim to add to these examples as our future research into four key sectors (agrifood, infrastructure, sustainable fashion and advanced manufacturing/tech) proceeds through our follow-on research."
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