The Office for Investment (OfI) convened investors, nature projects and local and national government in Bristol on 5 November 2026 to encourage innovative financing and help nature projects attract investment. The meeting was hosted by OfI chief executive Parminder Kohli, West of England Mayor Helen Godwin and Lloyds Banking Group.

A report published by the OfI with the North Devon Biosphere found the UK's natural capital and ecosystem services were becoming a strategic investment opportunity, but that the market was still too fragmented and immature to attract capital at scale. The event examined how public and private investment could support nature recovery, with place-based partnerships cited as a way to turn shared interests into investable projects.

Kohli said the focus must be on helping promising projects become investment-ready while giving investors confidence to deploy capital. Godwin pointed to her £5 million Nature Fund and the Western Forest, England's first new national forest in a generation, as examples of nature recovery alongside economic growth. Lloyds said nature-based solutions could strengthen climate resilience while delivering wider benefits, and that realising this depended on strong public-private partnerships.