Catch Rob on DO Radio: Miracles Happen Here with Jon Kaye and Alan Wick from 13 to 20 April.
Rob Gardner is the co-founder of Rebalance Earth, a pioneering initiative reframing how we value the natural world.
After decades working at the heart of global finance, Rob began asking a simple but unsettling question:
What if the market is pricing nature at zero?
- Forests that clean our air.
- Peatlands that lock away carbon.
- Rivers that prevent flooding.
- Biodiversity that underpins entire economies.
We rely on them completely, yet they barely register on balance sheets. Rebalance Earth exists to change that.
Rob and his team are building financial structures that channel long-term investment into large-scale nature restoration.
He believes capital markets can evolve from extractive to restorative.
That pension funds and institutional investors can protect both financial returns and ecological systems.
That long-term wealth and living landscapes do not have to sit on opposite sides of the ledger.
DO Radio Show Notes
In this conversation, we explore what it means to put nature back on the balance sheet. How finance can become a force for restoration. And why the real risk isn’t investing in the planet, but continuing to ignore it.
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