Wilder Carbon: update on projects and buyers, together with plans for a Nature and Climate Credit.
The Wilder Carbon Standard ensures that high-quality conservation projects delivered in the UK result in long-term carbon lock-up and real biodiversity gains. Wilder Carbon then matches these projects to UK buyers who are demonstrably reducing their own emissions.
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Join this webinar to hear an update on the project pipeline and buyer activity and outline Wilder Carbon’s ambitions for a new bundled nature and climate credit. Speakers include Sarah Brownlie, Evan Bowen Jones, Ross Johnson and Helen Gillespie-Brown from the Wilder Carbon team. Gillon Dobie, Impact Director from GrowUp Farms will also feature in the event, providing the perspective of a buyer of Wilder Carbon credits.
Speakers
Sarah Brownlie
Program Director, Wilder Carbon Initiative
Sarah Brownlie
Program Director, Wilder Carbon Initiative
Sarah Brownlie is Program Director for the Wilder Carbon Initiative, oversees the initiative to ensure appropriate separation and governance of the component parts, and the effective efficient operations of each ensuring that all the components operate robustly, transparently and in-line with the Wilder Carbon principles and ethos that assure delivery of high-integrity natural solutions from end-to-end.
Helen Gillespie-Brown
Business Development Manager, Wilder Carbon
Helen Gillespie-Brown
Business Development Manager, Wilder Carbon
Helen Gillespie-Brown is Business Development Manager for Wilder Carbon whose main focus is on awareness building, facilitating new partnerships with organisations, generating demand and identifying opportunities for our partners to deliver more for nature and climate.
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Ross Johnson
Head of Nature Markets, Kent Wildlife Trust Group
Ross Johnson
Head of Nature Markets, Kent Wildlife Trust Group
Ross is the Head of Nature Markets for the Kent Wildlife Trust Group and leads on technical aspects and project development work for Wilder Carbon. This involves coordinating the development of Wilder Carbon’s data and MRV approaches and the minimum intervention management framework, assisting projects with feasibility assessments and the validation process, and facilitating Project Developers to be able to deliver Wilder Carbon projects, as well as project development of Kent Wildlife Trust’s own Wilder Carbon projects. Ross has a background in ecology, particularly wilding, as well as in environmental consultancy, and is able to combine commercial insight with technical understanding in order to help drive the progression of Wilder Carbon.
Evan Bowen-Jones
Managing Director, Wilder Carbon
Evan Bowen-Jones
Managing Director, Wilder Carbon
Evan Bowen-Jones, Chief Executive of Kent Wildlife Trust has been working on delivering KWTs ambitious strategy for a Wilder Kent during his time in post. This strategy hinges on finding impactful local solutions to tackling the national and global nature and climate crises we all face at speed, and in the most defensible and pragmatic manner possible. It is where Wilder Carbon was born: an initiative that now has a dozen English Wildlife Trusts as well as John Muir Trust in Scotland signed up as local deliverers, making it scaleable and investable. Evan has a 25 year professional conservation background that encompasses implementation of species and landscape-level conservation projects; analysis of international policy; and working with NGOs, governments and Corporates to deliver real gains for wildlife all over the world.
Gillon Dobie
Impact Director, GrowUp Farms
Gillon Dobie
Impact Director, GrowUp Farms
Gillon is the Impact Director at GrowUp, where he’s leading the charge on their social and environmental initiatives. Before joining GrowUp, he worked in renewable energy, helping big factories decarbonise. Gillon’s based at his family’s farm in Scotland, he’s all about finding smarter, more sustainable ways to farm, which is why he’s such a fan of projects like Wilder Carbon.