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In this episode of the Nature Recovery Podcast, Stephen Thomas is joined by Nat Duffus and Harrison Carter to unpack the often confusing world of biodiversity finance. Harrison introduces his new paper, Demystifying Biodiversity Finance, and explains why conservationists, ecologists and investors need a shared language to make sense of bonds, loans, equity, credits and risk.

The conversation explores:

• what biodiversity finance actually means in practice
• how bonds can support nature recovery, and where they fall short
• why project-level, social and ecological risks matter for investors
• the importance of monitoring, reporting and verification
• why scepticism is not the same as negativity when trying to finance nature

The episode makes a strong case for honest, practical collaboration between conservation and finance, with the long-term goal of creating more effective and more durable support for nature recovery.

You can find the paper here:

https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/outputs/demystifying-biodiversity-finance/

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