14/10/2026
Nature risk is becoming an important consideration for financial institutions. Lending against farmland, ensuring a coastline or financing a supply chain now raises a question institutions increasingly need to answer with confidence: what is happening to the land, water and ecosystems underneath?
There is already a wealth of environmental data available. The opportunity now is to make it consistent, comparable and independently at larger scales and across larger portfolios, so it meets the standard risk committees need before they approve decisions on it.
Satellites offer a powerful part of the answer. They observe the same ground in the same way, at a regular frequency, over years. UK companies including Map Impact, Earth Blox, Gentian and AAC Clyde Space already use satellite data to map biodiversity, land cover, water and climate risk consistently.
The technology works, but needs common standards of evidence, indicators that fit financial decisions, and services the buyers can procure. No single bank or company can settle that alone.
Nature Intelligence for Finance, run by Satellite Applications Catapult, brings banks, investors, regulators, nature agencies and UK space businesses together at our latest event to explore what space data can unlock for financial institutions. It will highlight emerging capabilities, practical applications and real-world perspectives, and provide opportunities for collaboration, and connect with others interested in the growing role of space-enabled data in nature intelligence for finance.
5 November, IET London: Savoy Place
14:00 to 15:30: Plenary and presentations. UK companies show how their customers already use satellite data to assess nature risk
15:30 to 17:00: Networking drinks.
Register: https://bit.ly/47lFFNJ
