Rebalance Earth has invested in Great Yellow Group to help close the structural gap between large-scale nature recovery and institutional capital.
Great Yellow connects project developers with the networks needed to secure funding, put initiatives into practice, and scale projects effectively.
Great Yellow, alongside its sister company Swallowtail, is already supporting multiple DEFRA-supported landscape recovery projects across England. Their current portfolio spans over 300,000 hectares, with additional catchments under development.
Great Yellow said the partnership with Rebalance Earth will scale this momentum into a repeatable, farmer-led model for catchment resilience that works for nature, investors and the UK economy.
Ed Dick, CEO and co-founder, Great Yellow, said: “Delivering regenerative land use that is investable at scale is essential if we are to restore landscapes at the pace the UK now demands. Our partnership with Rebalance Earth connects high-integrity, on-the-ground delivery with the capital structures needed to support it.
“Together, we are building the mechanisms that can move nature recovery from fragmented, project-by-project interventions to a coherent, system-wide model of regeneration.”
Robert Gardner, CEO and co-founder of Rebalance Earth said his West Yorkshire Pension Fund-backed business closes the gap from the capital side by aggregating demand from utilities, developers, corporates and public bodies, structuring long-term, outcome-based contracts that generate infrastructure-grade cashflows for institutional investors.
Gardner said institutional grade revenue is generated through three principal, policy-anchored mechanisms including long-term contracted payments for flood mitigation and water quality, biodiversity net gain units, and UK carbon credits.
“Together, these diversified revenue streams generate investible, infrastructure-like cash flows that can attract pension and long-term institutional capital.The result is a shift from subsidised conservation to privately financed natural infrastructure, a system that works for companies, investors, farmers and the communities that depend on functioning ecosystems,” Gardner said.
He added: “The UK has already shown it can scale new infrastructure when capital and delivery align. Renewable energy is proof. Nature recovery is next. With Great Yellow, we are building the first vertically integrated system for regenerative land use in the UK, from ‘source to sea’ with the institutional backing to take it national.
“Our ambition is clear: mobilise £1bn into UK catchments within three years and scale to £10bn (€11.5bn) over the next decade, positioning nature as a mainstream UK infrastructure asset class and unlocking the capital required to restore the country at scale.”
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