Mobilising Private Finance for Nature

Green Finance Institute / GFI Hive

About Us

In line with the Green Finance Institute’s broader vision of a greener future made possible by finance, GFI Hive’s mission is to increase private investment in nature restoration, nature-based solutions and nature-positive outcomes in and for the UK.

We work with the finance sector, government, academia, environmental NGOs and land managers to identify and unlock barriers to this mission, and act as a knowledge hub on private investment in nature to increase shared learning, best practices and investment appetite.

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Latest Insights

Financing UK Nature Recovery Recommendations and Roadmap Report
Jun 07 2022
The Financing Nature Recovery UK Recommendations and Roadmap Report lays out a plan to drive private investment into nature and create environmental markets to help fill the annual £5.6 billion financing gap for UK nature recovery.
Welcome to GFI Hive
Dec 07 2021
Welcome to GFI Hive - a resource for the growing community of finance professionals and other stakeholders working to increase private investment in nature restoration, nature-based solutions and nature-positive outcomes in and for the UK.
Finance Gap for UK Nature Report
Oct 12 2021
The Green Finance Institute commissioned environmental economics consultancy, eftec, to identify the finance gap across the UK to achieve nature-positive outcomes in order to assess the need for private investment.
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Case Studies

Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT

Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT offers leases, mortgages and lines of credit to farmers in the US seeking to transition to organic farming. It buys conventional farmland and provides long-term lending to farmers, who then transition the land to organic farming. It also buys existing organic farmland for those who want to expand their existing operations. Currently, its portfolio has 100 farmland investments across 30,000 acres and 16 states, predominantly in the Midwest. It currently has around 650 investors. Some 75% are retail investors, and the remaining quarter come from family offices, foundations, and other institutional investors.

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Quintana Roo Reef Protection (Parametric Insurance)

Swiss Re and The Nature Conservancy developed the world’s first insurance solution to preserve a natural ecosystem. The parametric insurance model provided helped maintain Mexico’s Quintana Roo reef and, by extension, the community that relies on it. The claim payment release is triggered when hurricane wind speeds reach certain levels in a defined area, and allows the policy holder to rapidly deploy resources to support recovery of the reef, which minimises economic damage and further ecological degradation..

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Latest Podcasts

Episode 26: Emily McKenzie, Technical Director, TNFD
This week Emily McKenzie joins us to share more about the inner workings of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures and the challenges of shifting financial flows to nature positive. The TNFD is delivering a risk management and disclosure framework for organisations to report and act on evolving nature-related risks which be launching in 2023.
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Episode 25: Urs Dieterich, Managing Director, Landscape Resilience Fund
The Landscape Resilience Fund was designed by South Pole and WWF to lend to and invest in SMEs in emerging markets that are tackling climate adaptation. Urs Dieterich, managing director of the Fund, shares how climate adaptation and conservation go hand in hand, the similarities between financing both, and more about the Fund and its initial investment.
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Useful Resources

Report: Financing UK Nature Recovery Coalition's Recommendations and Roadmap

Date Published: June, 2022
The Financing Nature Recovery UK Recommendations and Roadmap set out how to make the UK am attractive market for nature-based investment to help drive nature recovery. The overall report outlines how to unlock existing barriers and deliver high-integrity environmental markets that drive private investment and nature recovery across the UK. It sets out a framework to modernise regulation, leverage public expenditure and secure large-scale private investment in nature and biodiversity each year by 2030.
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Report: Blue Carbon: The potential of coastal and oceanic climate action

Date Published: May, 2022
McKinsey’s new report, Blue Carbon: The potential of coastal and economic climate action, sizes Blue Carbon nature based solutions and measures their impacts, costs, and likely access to future funding. It highlights the latest scientific research and estimates abatement or conservation potential on a 2050 timeline. Deep dives on kelp reforestation and bottom trawling show how economies of scale in these emerging solutions could help reduce costs. The report also comments on the potential of blue carbon credit sales. 
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Report: Managing Carbon Assets from Investments in Nature Climate Solutions

Date Published: April, 2022
In this paper, New Forests provides investors with guidance on managing carbon through greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting for the land sector or through nature-based carbon credits and the intersection of these approaches with emerging net zero standards. This guidance seeks to support investors’ understanding of how to integrate sustainable landscape management with optimised returns, climate impact, and portfolio decarbonisation.
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Principles: Scottish Government PInterim Principles for Responsible Investment in Natural Capital

Date Published: March, 2022
The Scottish Government has set out six principles that set out their ambitions and expectations for a high-integrity market for responsible private investment in natural capital. This is targeted towards communities, investors, land owners, public bodies and other market stakeholders.
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