Second Nature with Rich Stockdale (Oxygen Conservation)
E190 · 27 August 2026 · 84 minutes
Stop Trying To Save Nature! This Is How We Actually Fund It.
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Bringing nature's recovery to stages worldwide.
Keynotes, panels, workshops, and podcasts on rewilding, nature finance, measurement with integrity, and the business case for restoring ecosystems at scale.
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Second Nature with Rich Stockdale
“Stop Trying To Save Nature! This Is How We Actually Fund It”
E190 · 27 August 2026 · ~84 min
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S&P Global, All Things Sustainable
“The role of carbon markets in protecting and restoring nature”
January 2026 · 27 min
Listen →Contact me for sample presentations or to discuss your event. Speaker one-sheet and headshots are on the Press page.
Topics
Signature speaking topics
Hard Sustainability
Why disclosure without measurement is the new greenwash, and what decision-grade ecosystem data looks like when an independent standard sits behind it.
Best for: Corporate sustainability summits, TNFD/CSRD briefings, board and risk forums
You Cannot Finance What You Cannot Measure
How verified condition data turns ecological recovery into something capital can price, allocate, and hold to account. Built around CreditNature's NARIA framework and the Ecosystem Condition Index.
Best for: Finance conferences, investor forums, nature-market panels
Nature as Infrastructure
Treating restored ecosystems as assets on the pathway from voluntary markets toward sovereign and corporate balance sheets, with integrity as the non-negotiable.
Best for: Policy conferences, infrastructure and investment forums, public-sector nature strategies
Rewilding Half the Planet by 2050
Why the most ambitious conservation goal of our time is also fundable: the science, the land-economy reality, and the capital stack required to restore half the planet within a generation.
Best for: Corporate events, sustainability summits, TEDx-style stages
Nature in the Age of AI
What machine intelligence changes about measuring ecosystems, where models still fail without ground truth, and how to keep nature finance honest when the tools get faster than the field data.
Best for: Tech and climate conferences, AI + sustainability rooms, innovation festivals
Upcoming
Jones Day: Natural Capital panel
21 September 2026 · New York Climate Week
Panel on natural capital with co-panellists from the nature and finance worlds. Public session during Climate Week NYC.
Recordings
Selected appearances and recordings
Inaugural Global Rewilding Gathering, Broughton Sanctuary
29 June to 2 July 2026
Official speaker, “Funding rewilding at the scale nature needs”.
S&P Global, All Things Sustainable
January 2026 · 27 minutes
The role of carbon markets in protecting and restoring nature.
Listen →S&P Global Commodity Insights: Global Carbon Markets Conference, Barcelona
2 December 2025
Panellist, “Targeting the right opportunity: measuring nature uplift with integrity”, alongside Tony Goldner, chief executive of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.
Westminster Energy, Environment and Transport Forum
20 November 2025
Speaker on environmental protection and the planning system in England.
Changing Landscapes Conference, Hometree
Do we have time to redesign capitalism?
Watch →Oxygen Conservation, Episode 47
June 2024
Ecological Recovery.
Watch →Blue Pioneers Podcast
May 2024
Rewilding Half the Planet by 2050: A Moonshot Vision.
Watch →The Hive Podcast with Nathalie Nahai
Ep. 99
Rewilding, regeneration and ecosystem recovery.
Listen →Earlier stages: Corporate Investments into Forestry and Biodiversity (October 2024); Nature Positive Investment Forum 2024 (Net Zero Investor, April 2024); CreditNature webinar “From Integrity to Impact”, Session 07 “Future Frontiers”. Watch the recording →
Press
Press and recognition
As recognised by
ENDS Report Power List (inaugural) LinkedIn Top Green Voice (UK) Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) and MCIEEM
Under his leadership
- CreditNature's Terrestrial Ecosystem Condition Method: world-first independent accreditation under the Accounting for Nature® Standard (method accreditation, United Kingdom and 38 European ecoregions)
- B Corp certification for Ecosulis and CreditNature
- Scottish Government Ecosystem Restoration Code (CivTech / NatureScot partnership)
Selected stages
Global Rewilding Gathering (Broughton Sanctuary) S&P Global Westminster Forum Innovation Zero Embercombe CE Media Circular Economy Summit Longview Networks
Book Cain to speak
I am available for keynotes, panels, workshops, podcasts, and corporate events on rewilding, nature finance, measurement with integrity, and the business case for biodiversity.
Booking enquiries go to Cain directly.
cain@cainblythe.comDownload the speaker one-sheet and approved headshots from the Press & Media page.