E160 Rob Gardner: Floods Will Break Britain

Rob Gardner isn’t trying to make nature sound good. He’s trying to make it investable.As CEO of Rebalance Earth, he’s building the UK’s first natural capital asset manager — structuring real revenue models around flood mitigation, water resilience, peatland restoration, and even oyster reefs. With a £25m cornerstone portfolio backed by West Yorkshire Pension Fund, this is institutional capital moving into ecosystems — not as philanthropy, but as infrastructure.We explore how ecosystem services can generate long-term, pension-grade cashflows, why nature risk is still missing from trustee dashboards, and what it will take to turn biodiversity and climate resilience into a recognised asset class.This isn’t ESG. It’s a blueprint for repricing nature at scale.