Our investment proposition for long-term asset owners
RE(DARWIN) Delivering adaptation, resilience, water infrastructure through Nature
RE(DARWIN) provides:
1. Attractive risk adjusted returns
2. Capacity for large-scale investments
3. Positive social, economic and environmental impacts
Investment in Nature needs to scale up significantly if we are to mitigate the impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss and the degradation of Nature. However the current investment returns on Nature, mainly from improving biodiversity (biodiversity net gain units) and carbon sequestration (carbon credits) are too small to support the restoration of UK Nature at a landscape and seascape level.
Rebalance Earth’s Nature-as-a-Service, where companies contract to pay for the business-critical service Nature provides, is a mechanism that will generate the volume of returns needed to mobilise capital at scale. Once companies start paying for the services of Nature because it makes good business sense, the opportunities to invest in Nature will grow way beyond the returns capacity of the Biodiversity Net Gain and voluntary carbon credits markets. Cashflows from NaaS contracts will transform our approach to tackling the UK’s climate and Nature crisis.
RE(DARWIN)’s return mechanisms
Strategy overview
The RE(DARWIN) fund strategy focuses on identifying and assessing opportunities for long-term asset owners to invest in large-scale Nature restoration in the UK. These projects are structured to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns by creating clear business cases for companies with Nature-related risks to pay for the services Nature provides through Nature-as-a-Service (NaaS) contracts. By demonstrating that Nature is a viable investment opportunity for long-term asset owners and that companies will pay for NaaS because it is central to their business resilience, a continuous flow of capital for Nature restoration can be unlocked.
