Kirsty Wilman, COO & CFO at Rebalance Earth - Why Should Real Estate Investors Care About Nature?

This week I sat down with Kirsty Willman, CFO & COO of Rebalance Earth to ask Why Should Real Estate Investors Care About Nature?

Kirsty spent 22 years in private markets finance, most recently as COO of Real Estate at Federated Hermes. She walked away from that to back a £100 billion market that nobody has properly built yet.

Her view is straightforward. Flood risk is becoming impossible to insure away. Coastal erosion is outpacing the defences built to stop it. Urban temperatures are rising fast enough to change where people actually want to be. Most real estate portfolios have not started pricing any of this.

We got into how Rebalance Earth finances nature restoration projects, how the returns work through service contracts, carbon credits and biodiversity net gain, and what 4 million oysters off the coast of Norfolk have to do with coastal property and offshore wind.

This is not a vanilla ESG conversation; it is a conversation about portfolio risk and why you really should care about nature before it is to late.

Drop your thoughts in the comments.

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Key Topics

✅ Why Nature Loss Is Now a Real Estate Balance Sheet Risk Not an ESG Talking Point

✅ How Rebalance Earth Underwrites Nature Restoration Like Any Other Private Markets Asset

✅ Flood Risk, Coastal Erosion and Urban Heat. The Risks Most Portfolios Have Not Priced

✅ Why Kirsty Left a Senior COO Role to Back a £100 Billion Market Nobody Has Built Yet

✅ The Revenue Model Behind Nature Based Investing and Why It Works for Institutional Capital

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