A Report developed by Oxbury Bank and the Environmental Farmers Group (EFG) to explore how farmers, landowners and land managers can work with corporates to restore nature at scale
- Opportunity scale detailing nature payments, ease of access and contract commitments
- Analysis of the corporate demand for nature-based solutions supplied by famers and landowners on farmland
- Review of the indicators and metrics used across frameworks, with impact drivers.
What is the report about?
This paper has been developed by the Environmental Farmers Group (EFG) and Oxbury Bank to explore how formal partnerships between corporate funders and farmers can support the restoration of natural ecosystems and the services they provide.
The aim is to create a framework to support the exchange of natural capital between companies reporting on their impact on nature and farmers and land managers in England who supply nature-based solutions.
The report includes:
- The potential opportunity created by connecting corporate demand for natural capital with collective groups of farmers delivering the supply of nature restoration.
- An overview of the corporate regulatory landscape related to nature and emerging nature markets, including the motivation to assess nature-related risks and opportunities.
- An overview of the income opportunities for farmers from nature capital projects and the level of scalability required to meet corporate demand.
- How EFG could support its member farmers to capitalise on this opportunity in the context of Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) landscape engagement targets.
- Introduce what delivery could look like and the significance of indicators, metrics and financial flows.
- Outline the next steps to building on this research and analysis to turn it into actionable exchanges of natural capital.
About Oxbury's approach to natural capital
Oxbury is the first UK-headquartered bank to have issued a Natural Capital report aligned with both the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and it also recently launched a unique Transition Facility to support farmers with their progress to adopt lower-carbon, more resilient farming systems.