Nature Outcomes Catalogue

Fully-loaded costs of nature protection and restoration projects in Britain

How much does it cost to deliver outcomes for nature in Britain?

The Nature Outcomes Catalogue compares the fully-loaded cost of nature protection and restoration projects across Britain. Projects are grouped by the environmental outcome they deliver, and coloured by the mechanism funding them — so you can see how delivery choice shapes cost.

40 projects
15 outcome types

How does cost vary within each environmental outcome?

Fully-loaded cost per primary outcome unit, £, shared log scale. Each bar is a project; colour shows delivery category. Sorted cheapest to most expensive within each outcome type.

Each panel groups projects that deliver the same primary environmental outcome. The x-axis is shared and log-scaled across all panels — bar lengths are directly comparable between outcomes. Projects are sorted cheapest to most expensive. Colour shows delivery category: whether the project is driven by the planning system, agri-environment payments, or voluntary action. Use the left-hand filters to narrow to a subset of projects; panels with no matching projects are hidden.
Planning System Agri-Environment Scheme Voluntary Scheme Unspecified
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£10 £100 £1k £10k £100k £1m £10m
£10 £100 £1k £10k £100k £1m £10m
£10 £100 £1k £10k £100k £1m £10m

How do costs compare across delivery mechanisms?

Fully-loaded cost per primary outcome unit, £, log scale. Each dot is a project; rows are outcome types; colour shows delivery category.

Fully-loaded cost per primary outcome unit, plotted on a logarithmic x-axis. Each dot is one project. Rows group projects by primary outcome type. Use the colour toggle to compare costs by delivery mechanism or delivery category. Use the outcome filter to show or hide specific outcome rows.

What does nature cost, and where does the money go?

Each cluster is a project, broken into five cost components. Toggle between relative and actual size.

Each project is shown as a cluster of five bubbles — one per cost component. Relative size: each cluster fills the same space so composition is readable across all projects. Actual size: bubble area reflects the true £ value — cheap projects shrink, expensive ones dominate. Click any bubble to open the full project detail.
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