Nature Means Business

Rebalance Earth is the first UK boutique asset manager entirely focused on Nature as an investable asset.  

Over the next decade Rebalance Earth aims to mobilise £10bn from long-term asset owners to invest in UK natural infrastructure, to build climate adaptation and resilience.  

We will restore Nature at a landscape and seascape level, to deliver vital ecosystem services to companies, communities and cities.  

This is a scalable and transformative approach to solving the UK’s climate and Nature crisis.  

Financing Nature as business-critical infrastructure

The scale of the opportunity is in direct proportion to the scale of the problem.

  • 185,000 businesses at risk of flooding

    It is estimated that 185,000 businesses in the UK are located in flood risk areas (Environment Agency). The average cost of a flood event is £82,000 per business (London Climate Review 2024).

  • Water shortages cost London £500 million per day

    The cost of insufficient water supply would cost London's economy £500 million per day (London Climate Review 2024).

  • £105 billion investment needed to secure water supply and reduce sewage by 2030

    A £105 billion investment from 2025 to 2030 is needed to safeguard water supplies, maintain top-quality drinking water, and drastically cut sewage pollution, pending Ofwat approval.

  • Biodiversity loss could cost $5 trillion.

    Global impacts from biodiversity loss and ecosystem damage could exceed $5 trillion, according to new research from Oxford University.

  • 256% rise in offsetting costs by 2030

    FTSE 350 companies spent £38 million on voluntary carbon offsets in 2022. According to BloombergNEF this cost could increase to £154 million by 2030 and £356 million by 2050 for the same volume of offsets.

The scale of the problem is huge but surmountable if we invest significant amounts of capital into landscape and seascape level restoration. Returns will come when we invest in Nature as business-critical infrastructure and companies pay for Nature-as-a-Service because it makes good business sense.

Rebalance Earth (DARWIN*): Our investment proposition for long-term asset owners

The UK needs to invest £100 billion over the next decade to restore its natural infrastructure. This is just 2% of the £5tn in UK pension and wealth assets.   

Long-term asset owners care about the state of Nature. But as an investable asset class for long-term asset owners, Nature is at an early stage of development. This is changing rapidly with the emergence of innovative investment opportunities.  Rebalance Earth’s DARWIN Fund, investing in UK Nature as business-critical infrastructure, is one of these.  

RE(DARWIN) will deliver investors attractive risk-adjusted returns with positive social and environmental impacts. 

*Delivering adaptation, resilience and water infrastructure through Nature

Nature restored will mitigate real-world risks such as: 

  • Flooding 

  • Drought 

  • Water quality 

  • Biodiversity loss  

  • Carbon emissions 

Rebalance Earth’s strategy is to make a clear case to companies, communities and cities that Nature is business-critical infrastructure, and by paying for its restoration in their local area, they will increase their operational resilience. The payments will come through Nature-as-a-Service contracts which will generate long-term cash flows for investors.

By generating cashflows from Nature it becomes an investable asset class. 

Nature-as-a-Service (NaaS)

How RE(DARWIN) will generate returns.

Our real-world risk mitigation proposition for companies

Rebalance Earth’s Nature restoration projects will provide companies with operational resilience from climate and Nature related risks by:

  1. Reducing risk of damage to assets

  2. Reducing business disruption

Companies will pay for these services through Nature-as-a-Service (NaaS) contracts.

These contracts will act as long-term offtake agreements that deliver reduced flood and drought risk, consistent water availability, improve water quality, an increase in both biodiversity and carbon sequestration.  

NaaS provides companies with the opportunity to address the root of the problem rather than continuously paying for the consequences.  

Landowners and farmers

Landowners and farmers are key stakeholders in our mission to finance Nature as business-critical infrastructure. We believe that the substantial investment Rebalance Earth will bring to the restoration of Nature will support the farming community’s transition to regenerative agriculture; reducing the need for pesticides and fertilisers, boosting soil health (increasing carbon and water retention), and improving water quality.

GPAP: Geospatial Predictive Analytics Platform

At Rebalance Earth GPAP, assesses the risks companies and infrastructure assets face due to climate change and Nature and biodiversity loss.

GPAP determines the optimal mix of Nature restoration investments that simultaneously mitigate risks and deliver attractive returns to investors. Our data-driven approach changes the way Nature is valued and invested in, designing and delivering the most impactful solutions to drive operational resilience to companies, communities and cities, through Nature-based solutions.

Meet the Team

  • Robert Gardner

    Robert Gardner

    CEO & CO-FOUNDER

  • Walid Al Saqqaf

    CTO & CO-FOUNDER

  • Kirsty Wilman

    COO

  • Lucy Clark

    EXECUTIVE ASSITANT

  • Mark Scantlebury

    BUSINESS ADVISOR

  • Athena Petychakis

    PARTNERSHIPS AND NATURE CREDITS

  • William Vine

    NATURE PARTNERSHIPS

  • Liberty Scutcher

    ANALYST

  • Dheeraj Sara

    ANALYST

  • Neil Entwistle

    ACADEMIC ADVISOR