Lawyers are trained to spot legal risk, but what if a lawyer can credibly justify that Nature-related legal risk can also reveal financial opportunity?

In Episode 4 of rewiggle, Legal Eagle, David Alfrey — Managing Partner and General Counsel at Pactum Capital, makes a compelling case for why Nature is moving rapidly from the margins of legal thinking into the core of business strategy.

And the examples are striking:

1. A cosmetics business worth close to $1 billion discovers that a key ingredient will soon become illegal. Walk away from the deal? Or invest in replacing it — and turn a legal risk into a new business opportunity?

2. A data centre may have permission to operate — but what happens when nearby communities start losing access to water?

3. And when choosing a supplier, should the cheapest bid always win? Or could paying a little more today be a cost-effective insurance policy against tomorrow’s potential litigation, regulation and reputational damage?

David introduces the “Daily Mail rule”, explains why a company’s social licence to operate may matter as much as its legal one, and challenges lawyers to take action early, not when the house is on fire.

Perhaps the biggest rewiggle is to accept that Nature isn’t simply another compliance issue for lawyers to manage. We could be facing one of the biggest opportunities to rethink risk, resilience — and where value comes from.

🎧 Come listen to the conversation on rewiggle Episode 4: Legal Eagle for Nature

Useful link:

TNFD: Asking Better Questions on Nature for Legal Counsel starring David Alfrey as a guest

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

Can a zoologist really influence where trillions of dollars flow?

Yes. His name is Andrew Mitchell.

Founder of Global Canopy and one of the original architects who helped weave Nature into the DNA of global finance, Andrew has spent decades translating between worlds that rarely speak to each other — science, conservation, government, and business.

From learning the language of red‑combed Sussex chickens on a Jersey farm to co‑creating the blueprint for the Taskforce on Nature‑related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Andrew has mastered the art of Google Translation for Nature.

His story reminds us that when we learns to speak another world’s language, we don’t just enter the room — we empower ourselves to change the conversation, and in his case, entire systems.

And now, Andrew draws confidence from the revolution that has arrived: Nature Tech. Nature has been innovating for billions of years. Continuously upgrading its software. Zero patents. Open innovation labs. The opportunity is turning that intelligence into returns.

From chickens to capital, Andrew’s story is a lesson in translation. It sunlights a transition already underway, of organisations translating Nature’s billions of years of intelligence into the blueprint for what they build and innovate next.

🎧 Listen to discover: →

How a zoologist learned to speak finance

How an idea became the TNFD

Why translation can spark systems change

What the Nature Tech revolution means for the future

Useful Links for Further Information:

TNFD: https://tnfd.global/

TCFD: https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/

Nature Opportunities:

Little Book of Nature Business (co authored by Andrew Mitchell) https://globalcanopy.org/insights/publication/introducing-the-little-book-of-nature-business/

TNFD Discussion Paper on Nature related Opportunities

https://tnfd.global/publication/discussion-paper-on-nature-related-opportunities/

Bloomberg NEF When Opportunity Blossoms

https://about.bnef.com/insights/nature-and-agriculture/twelve-case-studies-survey-the-business-opportunities-in-curbing-nature-loss/

Andrew Mitchell photo credit: Matt Porteous.