Source · Select Committees · Environmental Audit Committee
Recommendation 9
9
Deferred
Government has clear role encouraging landowners to increase natural capital assets for market supply.
Conclusion
There is a clear role for Government in encouraging landowners and land managers to engage in the use of land to increase the stock of natural capital assets. One way to do this is through incentivising the allocation of land to natural capital schemes, thereby developing their supply to the market. We recognise the work already undertaken under the Nature Markets Framework to encourage landowners to recognise the potential benefits of participation in nature recovery. (Conclusion, Paragraph 63)
Government Response Summary
The government states that responses to the Land Use Consultation and a call for evidence published in June 2025 are informing its approach to incentive design for nature recovery.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
The Land Use Consultation included questions on the incentives required to support nature recovery on privately owned land, including public and private financial incentives. The responses to these questions, and the feedback we received through workshops and meetings throughout the consultation, are informing our approach to incentives design and how wider measures, such as the provision of data and guidance, can help landowners and land managers to engage with a wider range of potential revenue sources. This will be further supported by responses to the call for evidence on increasing private investment in nature which was published on 12th June 2025.