The following comments were submitted on 30 September 2025 to the European Commission’s consultation on the Roadmap towards Nature Credits. This initiative aims to promote private investments in actions that protect and restore nature, supporting biodiversity, ecosystem restoration, and sustainable use of natural resources across the EU.
Climate Leadership Coalition welcomes the European Commission’s Roadmap towards Nature Credits as an important initiative to scale up private investment in biodiversity and ecosystem restoration. CLC represents leading Nordic businesses that are committed to nature-positive action and recognise biodiversity as a strategic asset for long-term value creation and climate resilience.
As forerunners, our members are actively integrating nature into their business models and supporting the development of innovative, high-integrity biodiversity finance mechanisms. The Commission’s roadmap is a valuable step in enabling the conditions for these actions to be scaled across Europe.
In short, CLC recommends that the European Commission:
- Support piloting of a Nordic biodiversity market model using harmonised compensation frameworks for boreal ecosystems and public–private cooperation before EU-wide rollout.
- Set clear and aligned biodiversity targets, ensuring the nature credit system supports the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the EU Biodiversity Strategy, while being grounded in ecological compensation and encouraging science-based targets for business.
- Provide incentives and de-risking for forerunners through tax benefits, targeted funding, public recognition, and blended finance tools to lower barriers for companies and landowners.
- Link nature credits to corporate reporting by aligning frameworks with CSRD, TNFD and SBTN to ensure transparency, credibility, and integration into companies’ nature strategies.
- Strengthen governance through collaboration via joint public–private models, coordinated Nordic pilots, and EU-level regulation connected to corporate disclosure.
Read full statement in the pdf below.
These recommendations are based on CLC’s position paper Advancing biodiversity action through market solutions, available at: Nature is hard to monetize but the Nordics are uniquely positioned to try
