Building Blocks of Nature as Infrastructure

What happens when a blockchain entrepreneur turns his gaze to Nature?

When floods stop trains, drought disrupts production or degraded landscapes threaten a £700 million order book, nature risk becomes financial risk.

In the latest episode of rewiggle, I speak with the brilliant Walid Al Saqqaf, co-founder of Rebalance Earth, about a different way of thinking about resilience — and investing in Nature.

There’s a fundamental problem with how we currently think about business resilience:

You can protect everything within your organization’s boundary walls. But you’re still exposed to the external landscape and catchment.

Your neighbours may depend on the same roads, power infrastructure and water supply — and face the same floods, droughts and other environmental hazards.

What if resilience becomes a shared investment?

From oysters cleaning millions of litres of water per day to the West Yorkshire Pension Fund investing in nature-based infrastructure through Rebalance Earth, this is a conversation about a provocative rewiggle:

Stop asking finance to care about Nature. Show finance why Nature matters to the assets, revenues and returns it already cares about. Show business why Nature is infrastructure.

Listen to rewiggle Episode 3: Building Blocks of Nature as Infrastructure

Useful links:

West Yorkshire Pension Fund

Rebalance Earth

Bordeaux’s Historic Wetlands Drained