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Briefings
Explore briefings from the NATURANCE consortium on nature and biodiversity challenges and solutions
The Naturance series
This series of briefs presents insights from the NATURANCE project for policymakers, finance professionals, and other stakeholders. The briefs provide summaries of key findings from the project’s work and are tailored to these audiences, rather than offering a comprehensive review of NbS in general.
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The series is structured around the three overarching themes addressed by NATURANCE’s Innovation Labs: the first brief focuses on NbS risk management; the second on NbS and investment; and the third and fourth on NbS in advisory, aiming to raise awareness of new methodologies for risk and co-benefit calculation and modelling.
The NATURANCE Consortium – 2026
Risk transfer and reduction through nature-based solutions
This brief highlights key insights from four of the Innovation Labs that were focused on risk management and summarises NATURANCE’s work to: Review how risk transfer can enable NbS and vice versa; Explore opportunities for supporting greater NbS use in the contexts of: Resilience of UK housing and the built environment to withstand flooding; Rising wildfire risk due to climate change and land use pressures; flood risk management in Italy given increased glacial melt/precipitation; Urban heat action plans in Europe.
The NATURANCE Consortium – 2026
Scaling investment in nature-based solutions
This brief summarises NATURANCE’s work across four Innovation Labs. It reviews how the insurance industry can catalyse investment in NbS and identifies key enablers to help overcome existing barriers. It also explores investment opportunities in NbS in several specific contexts: conservation within the EU’s protected area network, resilience finance and urban green infrastructure, and wetland restoration.
The NATURANCE Consortium – 2026
Scaling finance for nature: Barrier breakdown
This report aims to clarify that achieving the biodiversity financing goals set out in the Global Biodiversity Framework requires a dual approach. Currently, private capital contributes US$5 trillion in finance flows linked to negative impacts on nature, while US$10.1 trillion in economic opportunities could arise from the transition to a nature-positive economy. By simultaneously halting and reversing nature’s loss, private finance can play a transformative role in reducing nature-related risks and accelerating this transition.
The NATURANCE Consortium – 2026
Harnessing England's Biodiversity Net Gain legislation to amplify urban flood risk management
The introduction of England’s Biodiversity Net Gain legislation in February 2024 offers a timely opportunity to strengthen flood risk management (FRM), especially in urban areas. To achieve this, barriers to implementation in cities must be addressed. The legislation could improve efficiency, encourage adoption, and deliver wider co-benefits. Given limited resources for grey and green infrastructure, BNG funding should be considered as a way to support FRM plans and promote nature-based solutions. Policymakers, planning authorities, and insurers should seize this opportunity to embed resilience into urban development.
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Financial incentives as a strategy for promoting disaster resilience
Amaratunga D., Mysiak J., Resch C., Nissanka S. (2025)
Scaling finance for nature: a primer on what financial institutions are doing today
Martin C., Middleton J., Small S. and Seega N. (2025)
Harnessing England's Biodiversity Net Gain legislation to amplify urban flood risk management
Sherry M. and Kassian J. (2024)
Primer on the financial materiality of Nature-based Solutions
Deltenre L., Seega N. (2023)