UK Nature & Capital: A 5-Day Course
From the Finance Gap to BNG, Voluntary Markets, and Integrity — Nature as Financial Infrastructure
A companion to the UK Green Finance course: the parallel financial architecture forming around nature itself. Over 5 days, work through why nature has financial value at national scale, how Biodiversity Net Gain and habitat banks create a mandatory market, how voluntary nature markets and TNFD steer capital, what natural capital accounting and disclosure measure, and how verification and high-integrity standards bear the weight of scaling those markets.
The £56 Billion Question
Why the UK needs a financial architecture for nature — the scale of the gap and treating nature as infrastructure
15 minutesDay 2Mandatory by Design — BNG and the Habitat Bank Market
Biodiversity Net Gain, habitat banks, and how the UK’s first mandatory nature market works in practice
15 minutesDay 3The Voluntary Side — Nature Markets and TNFD
Voluntary nature and carbon credits, corporate demand, and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
15 minutesDay 4Counting What Counts — Natural Capital Accounting
How ecosystems become measurable assets — natural capital accounts, corporate reporting, and what gets disclosed
15 minutesDay 5The Integrity Question — High-Integrity Nature Credits and Verification
Verification, the BSI Nature Investment Standards, and why integrity is the load-bearing wall for nature markets
15 minutes