Speaker

About the speaker: 

Yann Grandemange is an Associate Director at Finance Earth, where he specializes in structuring and implementing innovative financing models for the natural and built environment. Yann co-designed and launched the Blue Catalyst Fund, a facility providing catalytic funding to accelerate high-integrity blue carbon projects. He has also advised the UK National Trust on Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) strategies and developed seascape financing models with WWF in Tanzania. Prior to joining Finance Earth in 2021, Yann worked as a credit research analyst at Nomura Asset Management and Moody’s Investors Service. He holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge and is a CFA Charterholder. He is based in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and focused on Finance Earth’s Asia operations and expansion.

Company info:

Finance Earth is a UK-based leading environmental impact investment boutique and employee-owned social enterprise. Their mission is to make finance work for conservation, climate, and communities by offering regulated financial advisory and fund management services. With a track record of over 100 impact projects and £100m+ in impact transactions, they design financing solutions that scale investment into nature. Finance Earth works with NGOs, governments, and corporates to build high-integrity markets for nature, ranging from the UK Nature Impact Fund to the global Fisheries Improvement Fund.

Presentation:

While carbon credits have dominated the conversation on conservation finance, the market is rapidly evolving toward broader "Nature Credits" that value biodiversity and other ecosystem services. This presentation will explore how the blue economy can look beyond carbon to unlock new revenue streams. Drawing on Finance Earth’s work such as the "High Integrity Marine Natural Capital Markets Roadmap" and the UK’s terrestrial Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) market, the speaker will discuss how these credit models could apply to the marine sector. The speaker will to also cover practical examples of marine and coastal programmes we developed with their partners, such as the South West Indian Ocean (SWIO) Venture Builder with WWF, to demonstrate how the coastal and marine economic sectors (fisheries, seaweed farming, etc.) can layer revenue from a range of sources to achieve conservation outcomes.