Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund

[Bogweevil]

HMG has announced a new fund granting up to £100,000 to groups including businesses for projects that tackle climate change, create and restore habitats, or improve water quality to demonstrate the UK’s leadership in nature as COP26 approaches in November.

Your application should explain how your investment model will lead to natural environmental outcomes, referring to the 25 year environment plan and its outcome indicator framework.

The following are examples of outcomes.

Thriving plants and wildlife
Such as:

• supporting or improving biodiversity
• supporting or improving pollinator status
• increasing favourable condition of protected sites
• restoration of priority habitats and reduction of degraded land
• supporting condition of marine habitats and sustainable use of the marine environment
• protecting threatened species
• net zero or negative emissions from deforestation and forest restoration
• increases in the percentage of production area under productive and sustainable agriculture and aquaculture
• creation of water habitats

Clean and plentiful water
Such as enhancing the water environment and supporting water bodies to meet good status.

Clean air
Such as supporting reduction of emissions from important air pollutants.

Protection from flooding, drought and other environmental hazards, and mitigation of and adaptation to climate change
Such as:

• peatland restoration
• flood resilience
• tree planting
• managing climate change risks – for example, taking account of the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18), Natural England’s adaptation manual for conservation, Environment Agency’s climate impacts tool, Forestry Commission guidance on managing woodlands in a climate emergency and its climate matching tool

Enhancing beauty, heritage and engagement with the natural environment
Including better outcomes in landscapes for nature and for people.

[Withdrawn] [Withdrawn] How to apply for a Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund grant

www.gov.uk

 

[delilah]

Suckler herd.

 

[wanton dwarf]

So bascially this is for the upper classes such as Prince Charles etc.


And it has the usual trick:

7. What the grant cannot pay for

You cannot get funding for:

• capital spending, such as buying or leasing land or equipment
• costs already covered through other funding
• costs incurred before you’re awarded the grant

So everyone who has an environmental asset on their farm should first utterly destroy it so they can claim grants. They never learn.

 

[farmerm]

so I can use this to create a new business with an online model aimed at selling carbon credits, spend a £5000 on a website, pay myself £95,000 directors salary. Then fold the company after a year or 2 when it doesn't go anywhere...