Over the 42-month project period (Nov 2019-Apr 2022), We Value Nature has developed and delivered a wide range of resources supporting businesses embarking on their natural capital journey. We Value Nature took a behavioural change approach and developed a simplified natural capital uptake journey, and clarified key barriers at each stage of the journey, which has underpinned all We Value Nature output. Key output has included development of three training modules, applicable to all sectors, which help businesses to overcome barriers to uptake, in particular at the early stages of their natural capital journey. The modules raise understanding of natural capital and nature-based solutions and support businesses in making a first natural capital assessment. We adapted these modules to the specific needs of the food and beverage sector and the finance sector, and to integrate biodiversity considerations. These modules were delivered in face-to-face and virtual business trainings and train-the-trainer sessions to expand outreach, thereby reaching many hundreds of trainees, and adapted to a Coursera online self-paced training course that secured over 500 learners in the first 6 weeks of posting. We also delivered a series of virtual office hour calls providing a safe space for focussed discussion among network participants of key issues, and a series of bespoke helpdesk calls supporting individual businesses.
Additional resources developed by We Value Nature include: (1) an online media library which makes available a range of video, photographic and infographic resources, that businesses and others can use and adapt free of charge under a Creative Commons licence; (2) our interactive Natural Capital Journey tool facilitating access to appropriate resources at various stages of the uptake journey; (3) a series of blogs offering insights into key issues; (4) a series of Natural Capital Stories (video and pdf) offering inspirational case studies; and (5) a number of think pieces including a paper on the risks to biodiversity of expanded uptake of natural capital approaches, and a position paper on Improving Natural Capital Data Flow between Governments and Businesses.
We Value Nature was very active in supporting and energising the European 'network of networks', notably through close collaboration with the Capitals Coalition (the key pre-existing network of networks), through running many events including a 10-Day Challenge of 40+ webinars in collaboration with leading network participants, numerous other webinars and sessions at the EU Business and Biodiversity Summits (2019, 2020, 2021), an Innovate4Nature event providing a blueprint for NbS accelerator events, a series of Dialogues with the natural capital and NbS community, and meetings with its Advisory Panel (mostly businesses) and Academic Review Board.
