EP 92 - Nature 2 - Gail Gallie, Jay Lipman and Patricia Zurita - Closing the Nature Financing Gap
Episode 92 is a conversation with three very smart, courageous and thoughtful humans from new regenerative venture with a massive ambition - Nature 2
Gail Gallie, Jay Lipman and Patricia Zurita are co-founders who between them represent highly experienced operators and practitioners across worlds of campaigning and mobilisation, ethics driven finance and global conservation.
Nature 2 is a collaboration that seeks to connect, build and scale systems to urgently drive finance into protecting and regenerating the natural world globally.
At this moment in time there is a funding gap around nature, biodiversity and ecosystem protection and regeneration of approximately 830 billion dollars (gulp!) - something they call the ‘nature financing gap.’
Nature 2 are on a mission to close that gap. Seeking to catalyse the finance and investor communities to commit to directing 2% of managed assets towards nature based solutions.
We explore:
Nature 2: A new mission - how this idea emerged, how it works and the roles within this collaborative venture
The role of finance in nature conservation
The importance and complexity of shifting destructive subsidies towards regenerative practices
Navigating capitalism and conservation
Balancing big company action with local farmers and land based communities
Mapping the most urgent places on Earth for nature conservation and regeneration
Philanthropy and capitalism and the entanglement of todays economic system design with climate and ecological breakdown
Stories and communication to engage funding and investor communities
This conversation was recorded in spring 2024.
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