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:
- Riverine restoration & revegetating streams (flood mitigation and impact reduction focus)
- Restoring koala habitats & connectivity (biodiversity focus)
- Regenerative agriculture & sustainable farming (food, disaster preparedness and environmental improvement focus)
- 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.