Introducing North Star Transition

We are witnessing nature’s collapse all around us. But where will the finance come from to restore nature and to protect against climate, social and health catastrophes? Jerome Tagger reports on North Star Transition’s 2023 investigations into the feasibility of investing in nature at landscape scale.

When the then UK environment secretary Therese Coffey described the Wye as “unfavourable-declining” we at North Star Transition asked how we could make the Wye and Usk landscapes completely regenerative. Jo Jones relates the progress we made in the Wye-Usk Transition Lab in 2023.

Large-scale investment funding is missing in action when it comes to transforming landscapes. In 2023, North Star Transition and its partners have continued to find out how to unlock this critical piece of the funding puzzle. Jyoti Banerjee reports on our investigations.

Jane Davidson has been appointed to lead the Wales Net Zero 2035 group to help the country speed the transition to Net Zero. Jyoti Banerjee, appointed to the group, explores the challenges ahead to imagine a fairer, more sustainable Wales.

In April, our Wales Transition Lab team enjoyed an excellent opportunity to meet some of the Lab’s participants at the wonderful Spark building in Cardiff. Jyoti Banerjee reports back on the new ideas and hopes being brought into the Lab.

The Wye and Usk are storied and much-loved rivers that also happen to be some of the unhealthiest waterways in the UK. What does it take to transform the Wye and Usk catchments? Luke Penny and Jyoti Banerjee lay the case for a Wye-Usk Transition Lab.

Jenny Scott and Jyoti Banerjee have known each other for years. Now the organisations they co-founded, Apella and North Star Transition, are entering a strategic partnership to accelerate systems change.

A partnership between North Star Transition and Mott MacDonald brings together our unique Transition Lab systems change chops with their infrastructure, environmental and digital expertise.

We asked Dan Ward, our resident systems thinking enthusiast, to explore how carbon markets might work, and how we might prevent the unintended consequences that mar the current iterations.

How can we fund the transformation of landscapes? Jenny Scott reports back from a meeting North Star Transition co-hosted on behalf of Anglian Water with financial institutions and policy-makers on the challenges and opportunities of funding landscapes at scale.