Episode 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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