The Oxford Nature Positive Hub
Partners
Oxford-based Initiatives
Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery
The Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery acts as a hub for innovative thinking, discussion and analysis of nature recovery nationally and worldwide, it unites leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines across the University, to collaborate on a range of projects, in conjunction with national and international partners.
Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science
ICCS is a group of conservation scientists working on applied research at the interface of social and ecological systems. They work in collaboration with non-governmental organisations, practitioners, government agencies and businesses to provide approaches which address key conservation issues in every biome.
Nature Positive Universities
NPU is a growing network of people from over 500 higher education institutions across the world, working together to promote nature on campuses, in supply chains and within cities and communities. NPU was founded by UNEP and the University of Oxford in partnership with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
HESTIA platform
Hestia provides an open-access platform that stores standardised data on agricultural production. We also provide harmonized and transparent models to calculate multiple environmental impact indicators and enable benchmarking against similar farms. This allows our users to discern sustainable producers, products, and practices, and deliver science- and data-driven improvements in sustainability.
Nature-Based Solutions Initiative
The Nature-based Solutions Initiative is an international and interdisciplinary research centre, based within the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford. Its mission is to apply impactful research to shape policy and practice on nature-based solutions through research, teaching and engagement with policymakers and practitioners.
Benchmark for Nature
Benchmark for Nature's aim is to power the development of a structured, rigorous, and practically useful framework for assessing investor impacts on living nature. Its approach to estimating impact on biodiversity is designed to support and complement existing approaches to addressing the shortfalls in current ESG assessment approaches, using AI-enabled technologies with biodiversity conservation science.
Glob2Loc
Glob2Loc's aim is to project temporal biodiversity trends from multiple interacting human stressors in a way that integrates with the decision-making processes of end users in multiple sectors (e.g. conservation organisations, industry, government, etc), and then further identify how sets of actions implemented in different times and places might have potential to result in biodiversity net gain.
External partners
The Biodiversity Consultancy
TBC are a leading consultancy formed of biodiversity specialists, environmental data scientists, systems architects and sustainability practitioners working with business, civil society and government to create solutions to the world's most pressing sustainability challenges. They are pioneering approaches to nature positive and Science-based Targets for Nature with a range of NGO partners and leading companies.
Wild Business Ltd
Wild Business believes in the need for more nature in the world, and that restoring nature can be good for business. Based upon their ongoing scientific research, and years of consulting and problem-solving experience, Wild Business support businesses in protecting and restoring nature – ensuring that they benefit from doing so.
Accounting for Nature
Accounting for Nature® is an independent not-for-profit that provides a world-leading, trusted, science-backed framework to measure, verify, and report on the state of nature. Our mission is to contribute to improving the state of nature worldwide by enhancing the health of landscapes through rigorous environmental accounting that makes nature count.