Blue Earth Summit
We’re thrilled to be a charity partner for this year’s Blue Earth Summit in London on 16 – 18 October
Published 20/09/2024
Invest in rewilding: Good for business, Good for people, Good for nature
We’ll be exhibiting at Blue Earth Summit, joining 7,000 trailblazers to shape a sustainable future and spread our vision of rewilding.
We have reached the point where the breakdown of our climate and the biodiversity crisis are urgent threats to both nature and human society. But with investment in rewilding there is a powerful solution.
Rewilding Britain’s mission at Blue Earth Summit is simple – meet as many businesses and individuals interested in investing in nature-based solutions as possible, so we can tackle climate change and you can grow reputational capital.
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Join the debate
Our CEO Rebecca Wrigley will host a panel of sector experts discussing “How can high-integrity investment boost rewilding whilst ensuring equitable community benefit?”
Rewilding 30% of Britain can help us transition to a nature rich, low carbon future while delivering real, locally generated benefits today. These include carbon storage, climate resilience, vibrant green economies, local livelihoods, flood mitigation, healthier air, water and soils, and improved health and wellbeing.
Making 30% rewilding a reality requires political will and sustained funding, within a financial system that values and invests in nature. Our panel of leading rewilders, market builders and businesses will discuss how to drive high-integrity investment into large-scale rewilding while ensuring that this brings shared value for nature, the economy and local communities.
The panel will take place on The Fourth Stage on 16 October, 10.30−11.30. See the full programme of events on the Blue Earth Summit website.
The panellists
Meet the speakers who will be coming together for this event.
Panellist: Rebecca Wrigley, CEO at Rewilding Britain
Rebecca Wrigley is the founder and Chief Executive of Rewilding Britain. With a career spanning three decades in environmental conservation and social change, Rebecca has been instrumental in driving the rewilding movement. Under her guidance, Rewilding Britain has gained significant traction, influencing national policy, catalysing a growing network of rewilding projects across Britain, engaging with landowners and inspiring people to Think Big, Act Wild!
Panellist: Archie Struthers, CEO at Nattergal
Archie has over two decades of global executive leadership experience, having developed multiple innovative investment solution capabilities primarily at BlackRock and then Standard Life/Aberdeen. He also oversees his family estate where he grew up in Argyll, Scotland.
Panellist: Tom Kelly, Senior Associate at Howden Climate Risk & Resilience
Tom joined Howden in 2019, and worked in the Reinsurance, Casualty and Financial Lines team before joining the Structured Solutions team within Howden M&A. Tom then spent six months on secondment to the Department of International Trade, where he helped to run a campaign focusing on how insurance can help build resilience in vulnerable communities around the world.
Panellist: Helen Avery, Director of Nature Programmes at Green Finance Institute
Helen Avery is a Director of Nature Programmes and GFI Hive within the Green Finance Institute. She leads the Institute’s work on supporting the development of a pipeline of investible nature projects and on building investor demand, including advising and supporting the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund. In previous roles, Helen was Sustainable Finance Editor and Global Wealth Management Editor with Euromoney Magazine.
Panellist: Angela Williams, Development Manager at the Langholm Initiative
Angela is currently the development manager for the Langholm Initiative — Tarras Valley Nature Reserve, South of Scotlands largest community land buyout. Angela has worked in the third sector all her professional life, the last 20+ years in the community land owning sector including Knoydart, Sunart and Fort Augustus. She is passionate about the role communities can play in owning and managing their land for the benefit of both people and the environment and in ensuring that natural capital benefits are shared with those who are most impacted by it.
Moderator: Ben Goldsmith, CEO at Menhaden Capital Management
Ben Goldsmith is a British financier, philanthropist and environmentalist who has been at the forefront of campaigns for more rewilding in Britain and Europe. He founded and chairs the Conservation Collective, a network of locally-focused environmental foundations. Ben is the Chief Executive Officer of Menhaden, a London-listed, sustainability-themed investment company and also a Trustee of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of the world’s largest climate change focused philanthropic funds.
