Media and Reports

Recent media coverage includes:

Sustainable Finance Insight Journal: guest article by Emilien Hoet, LENs strategy director
Business News Wales: on the launch of LENs Wales
MLex: news of the CMA’s guidance on LENs and also featured in Lexology.
Farmer’s Weekly: a farmer’s opinion piece and a review of LENs
Carbon Herald: LENs Impact Report
Scottish Farmer: Launch of LENs in Scotland
Farming Online: Launch of LENs in Scotland
Sustainability Magazine: Purina’s involvement in LENs
Podcasts: Green Finance Initiative’s Financing Nature series; 8Point9; and the Forth Rivers Trust

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Developing regional economic resilience through nature-based solutions

Green Finance Institute, March 2026

Features LENs as a key implementation model for coordinated private-sector co-investment in nature-based solutions, directly mitigating water and soil risks threatening local business continuity.

Creating shared value

Nestlé, February 2026

Features Lora Kátai, a LENs farmer in Hungary, as a case study to highlight how LENs is helping farmers tackle the challenges of climate change.

RegenCompass: A farmer-led guide to frameworks, certification & claims in regenerative agriculture

European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture, February 2026

Benchmarks LENs MRV with 28 other regenerative agriculture schemes, assessing systems that explicitly and intentionally address regenerative agriculture at field, farm or supply-chain level.

CMA Informal Guidance: Landscape Enterprise Networks

Competition and Markets Authority, January 2026

Confirms LENs as facilitating legal and transparent collaboration on environmental goals, providing a clear precedent for cross-industry cooperation that drives nature recovery without restricting market competition.

Biodiversity: risk, reward, resilience

Savills, 2025

Highlights LENs as a sophisticated funding model that bridges the biodiversity finance gap by converting ecological goals into tangible private-sector investment opportunities.

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Call for Action: Principles for High-Integrity Insetting in the Land Sector

Conservation International, 2025

Features LENs as a pioneering “supply shed” model that demonstrates how high-integrity insetting can drive collective, landscape-scale investment while maintaining rigorous environmental standards.

Closing the gap: An analysis of the costs and incentives for regenerative agriculture in Europe

Deloitte with funding from Unilever, PepsiCo, OP2B and WBCSD, 2025

Showcases LENs as a leading incentive framework that de-risks the transition to regenerative agriculture by aggregating demand from multiple supply chain actors.

Delivering better integrated land use decision-making: evidence review

CPRE, 2025

Highlights LENs to illustrate how integrated land management governance can balance competing priorities like food production and climate resilience at a regional level.

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Growing Regenerative Agriculture: How businesses can help deliver impact at scale

Nestlé, 2025

Features LENs to demonstrate how collaborative investment models can drive measurable soil health improvements and secure long-term raw material supply.

Guidebook for Landscape Investments

WBCSD, 2025

Profiles LENs as a replicable operational blueprint for businesses looking to implement landscape-scale nature-based solutions through formal commercial contracts.

Land use innovation

Royal Agricultural College, 2025

Cites the LENs model as an innovative driver of rural economic resilience, showing how nature-based investments create new revenue streams for farming enterprises.

Making Nature Count

Henry Leveson-Gower, TABLE, University of Oxford, 2025

Uses LENs to demonstrate how a “demand-led” approach to valuing ecosystem services can move beyond theoretical metrics into practical, landscape-scale contracts that reward farmers for environmental outcomes.

Natural capital approaches to decision-making for collaborative landscape governance

Environmental Science & Policy Journal, 2025
Authors: Jayne H. Glass, Kerry Waylen, Mark S. Reed, Leo Peskett, Brady Stevens

Cites LENs as a prime example of institutional innovation, focusing on how its unique funding mechanism overcomes the limitations of traditional public agri-environment schemes.

Nature Handbook for Food & Drink Manufacturers

Food & Drink Federation, 2025

Presents LENs as a practical pathway for the food and drink sector to tackle biodiversity loss by pooling resources within shared sourcing landscapes.

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Revenues for nature case study: LENs

Green Finance Institute, 2025

Presents LENs as a pioneering revenue model for nature, demonstrating how high-integrity environmental outcomes can be bundled to attract private capital.

The Case for Revisiting Property Rights in the Context of the Climate and Nature Crises

Deborah Roberts, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2025

Economic analysis that uses LENs to showcase the efficiency of market-based approaches in delivering public goods like water quality and carbon sequestration.

Water governance and system coordination across diverse risk-management cultures

Brendan Bromwich, Damian Crilly and Jyoti Banerjee, 2025

Features LENs as a successful governance case study in coordinating diverse stakeholder interests to manage regional water risks and flood resilience.

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Bringing together groups of companies to invest in landscapes: LENs

Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2024

Presents LENs as a circular economy model for land, showing how cross-industry collaboration can regenerate the natural capital upon which all businesses depend.

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Enabling collaborative landscape management in Scotland – the stakeholder view

The James Hutton Institute, 2024

Identifies the LENs stakeholder engagement model as a key enabler for collaborative land management, providing a template for scaling nature recovery across Scotland.

Improving policy and practice for agricultural nutrient use and management

Defra, 2024

Cites LENs as a proven mechanism for improving nutrient management by aligning commercial incentives with improved soil and water health.

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Implementing Landscape-scale Environmental Management: Landscape Enterprise Networks

Journal of Environmental Law, 2023
Authors: Christopher Rodgers, Helen Kendall

Examines the LENs contracting framework as a leading example of how private law can be used to secure long-term environmental outcomes.

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A Blueprint for Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs)

1000 Landscapes for 1bn People, 2022

Showcases LENs as a scalable landscape model that successfully integrates private sector demand with local environmental and social needs.

Co-designing long-term agreements for Landscape Recovery

Countryside and Community Research Institute, 2022

Government-backed trial that highlights the LENs co-design process as an essential tool for creating long-term, trust-based agreements between land managers and investors.

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Decision Making in a Nature-Positive World: Nature-based Solutions for the water sector

CISL, 2022

Highlights LENs as a key example of how the water sector can use nature-based solutions to mitigate flood and drought risks.

Integrating ecosystem markets to co-ordinate landscape-scale public benefits from nature

PLOS One, 2022
Authors: Mark S Reed, T Curtis et al

Uses LENs to demonstrate the success of collective action models in achieving widespread adoption of sustainable farming practices.

Legal models for implementing agri-environment policy after Brexit

Christopher Rodgers, 2022

Features LENs as a robust private-sector legal model that complements national policy in the post-Brexit agri-environment landscape.

Modelling Nature-Positive Land Management: Lessons from the East of England Landscape Enterprise Network.

The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and 3Keel, 2022

Showcases LENs to illustrate how predictive modelling and landscape-scale investment can create a “nature-positive” agricultural system that benefits both business and biodiversity.

Public Policy to Support Landscape and Seascape Partnerships

Sara J. Scherr, Juan Ramos, Seth Shames et al, 2022

Cites LENs as a globally significant example of how public policy can support private-sector landscape partnerships to meet international climate goals.

Uplands Policy Brief

SRUC, 2021

Features LENs to demonstrate how landscape-scale funding can be successfully adapted to the unique ecological and economic challenges of upland farming communities.

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Healthy Ecosystems East Anglia: A Landscape Enterprise Networks opportunity analysis

Business in the Community, 2018

This founding report presents the original LENs pilot as a proof-of-concept for how regional business hubs can collaboratively invest in the health of their local ecosystems.