Nat Cap Forum
Nature Finance into Action
As Co-Chair of the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital, Dr Hannah Rudman co-organised the Nature Finance into Action event, which brought together 150 stakeholders from Scotland’s natural capital community: investors, land managers, policymakers, scientists and project developers, to discuss one key goal: turning nature finance from conversation into action. The March event in Edinburgh sold…
Chairing Nature Repair events at Edinburgh International Book Festival
Hannah is chairing three Nature Repair events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025. Held in August at venues in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, the Repair theme is explained by Jenny Niven, the festival’s Director: “This year’s key theme of Repair starts from the belief that the brilliant ideas of writers and thinkers can help us…
Horizon Scan Roundtable: Exploring Place-based Approaches to Natural Capital
The Scottish Forum on Natural Capital recently hosted its Horizon Scan Roundtable, bringing together over 50 influential leaders from across the environmental, policy, and land management sectors to explore place-based natural capital approaches in Scotland. This high-level event, which included expert talks, targeted interventions, and dynamic breakout sessions, provided a critical space for discussing how…
Scotland’s Natural Capital Market Framework launches
Mr Tom Arthur MSP this morning launched Scotland’s first Natural Capital Market Framework at the Nature Finance UK 2024 conference in London. As Co-Chair, Hannah was able to chat to the Minister about the support that the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital and its Hubs could offer around the framework’s seven principles and their actions. Hannah’s 2023…
Chairing the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital
Hannah has been appointed co-Chair of the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital. She joined the forum and turned her professional focus and energy to nature positive solutions to the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis in 2020. Hannah has been a co-lead of the Nature Finance Pioneers Hub since its early days, when it was a…
COP26 videos & podcast
Scottish National Investment Bank Chair Willie Watt was interviewed by me at COP26 as part of the Finance for Nature conference. We discussed the public investment bank’s approach to nature – and climate-based investments as well as decision grade data. Willie Watt is the Chair of the Scottish National Investment Bank, a new publicly owned development bank…
The first £billion is the hardest: Scotland’s challenge for natural capital
Hannah is supporting the Scottish Nature Finance Pioneers network in developing new natural capital investment projects that can deliver returns for investors, whether they are private businesses, public agencies or communities. As the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) continues this week, a new report by the Green Finance Institute has revealed that a minimum of £44…