{"id":85761,"date":"2026-04-24T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/?post_type=publication&p=85761"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:18:46","slug":"opportunities-enablers-and-requirements-in-advancing-earth-observation-for-scaling-nature-finance","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/granthaminstitute\/publication\/opportunities-enablers-and-requirements-in-advancing-earth-observation-for-scaling-nature-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities, Enablers and Requirements in Advancing Earth Observation for Scaling Nature Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Leveraging Earth Observation for Nature Finance (LEON) project, supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), seeks to transform the use of Earth Observation (EO) data in enabling, mobilising and scaling nature-positive finance globally.<\/strong>  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEON’s first major report and an accompanying survey have now been published. Earth Capital Nexus’s Executive Director Nicola Ranger is the reports’ lead author and one of LEON’s co-Directors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main report builds upon six months of structured research, landscape analysis and multi-stakeholder engagement to map the opportunities and requirements for EO data within financial decision-making. It establishes the conceptual and operational foundation for the LEON project and its six thematic pilots.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report combines five principal strands of analysis: <\/p>\n\n\n\n