Our journey timeline

1 March 2025

Coming up next for ENVestor: Pilots to commence

We are fast heading towards kick-off of our pilots, which are scheduled to commence early next year.

1 March 2025

8 October 2024

Global launch of ENVestor

International launch of ENVestor at the Global Natural Positive Summit, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

1 October 2024

SEQ launch of ENVestor

South East Queensland place-based local launch held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

1 October 2024

25 September 2024

MOU signing

Founding partners sign up to an official memorandum of understanding, marking their organisation's commitment to ENVestor and welcoming the opportunity for other companies to join the fold.

17 July 2024

Pilots development

Partners, scientists, catchment experts, scientists and partners design the first 4 landscape-scale pilots with co-benefits across environment, economy, society, community and culture:

  1. Riverine restoration & revegetating streams (flood mitigation and impact reduction focus)
  2. Restoring koala habitats & connectivity (biodiversity focus)
  3. Regenerative agriculture & sustainable farming (food, disaster preparedness and environmental improvement focus)
  4. Coastal restoration (blue carbon and ecosystem improvement focus)

17 July 2024

30 April 2024

Working groups and structure formation

Underpinning governance structures formed up including:

  • Impact working group.
  • Independent expert advisory panel.
  • Communications and marketing committee.
  • Finance working group (to come).
  • Community working group (to come).

23 January 2024

Terms of reference formation

The growing steering committee formalises their terms of reference to govern their active involvement in the venture's development.

23 January 2024

21 October 2023

Steering group formation

Corporates, government and other stakeholders come together to form a steering committee to develop the ENVestor venture, starting with a shared understanding and vision, prioritisation of activities for impact, and designing a governance model to underpin the work.

15 February 2023

Initialisation scoping kicks off

Work starts on fleshing out what each party brings to the table, and the steps needed to create a world-leading nature-positive investment venture. A team of experts and scientists come together to build a feasibility study and business case.

15 February 2023

30 November 2022

Idea conceptualisation

Co-founders connect and identify common aims and synergistic structures to grow landscape-scale nature-based investment at International Riversymposium 2022, Vienna, Austria.