Commission registers Guernsey's first Natural Capital Fund
17th February 2026
The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has registered the island’s first Natural Capital Fund marking a significant milestone in Guernsey’s support for nature‑focused sustainable finance.
The Natural Capital Fund regime provides a regulated designation for investment schemes that make a positive contribution to the natural world or significantly reduce harm to nature. It forms part of Guernsey Sustainable Funds framework and sits alongside the Guernsey Green Fund designation which, itself, has circa £4.5 billion of assets under management.
The newly registered Natural Capital Fund will invest in large‑scale habitat creation and ecological restoration projects known as “habitat banks” which support compliance with England’s 2024 biodiversity net gain regulations, an emerging natural capital asset class that enables biodiversity to be restored at scale.
This development reflects growing demand for nature‑focused investment opportunities which Guernsey is delighted to enable.
Speaking about the registration, Director General, William Mason said: “We are pleased to have registered a fund under our Natural Capital Fund regime - a regime we designed as a pragmatic framework to help make it easier for investors to contribute to helping the planet meet the Kunming-Montreal Global Diversity Framework vision of living in harmony with nature.”
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Further information on the Natural Capital Fund framework is available on our website: Investment - Natural Capital Funds — GFSC