Project Summary – Aire Resilience Company
The Aire Resilience Company (ARC) is a partnership between the Rivers Trust, Leeds City Council, the Environment Agency, the Aire Rivers Trust and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. It will be an independent, commercial mechanism enabling the delivery of long-term natural flood management interventions (NFM) in the Upper Aire Valley. NFM interventions will be paid for partly by businesses and companies across the Aire catchment in return for enhanced flood risk reduction, along with a range of additional benefits derived from the use of nature-based solutions, alongside public grants.
Location: Leeds, England
Revenue stream focus: Payments for natural flood management
Key partners: Leeds City Council, Nature Finance, Environment Agency, Aire Rivers Trust, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, White Rose Forest, Rivers Trust