We create innovative projects and partnerships to solve the greatest challenge of our time
Fighting climate change through conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity
Research, advocacy and legal action
We believe that research and analysis should be the foundation of good decision-making. We engage in public advocacy and mobilization to inform and influence processes and decisions that impact the future of ecosystems and communities that depend on them. Ecosystem protection plays a decisive role in climate change mitigation and adaptation and provides an array of vital services both at local and global scale. We aim to ensure that ecosystem protection is at the heart of climate action and targets.
We also develop innovative legal approaches and strategies to hold actors accountable and to improve legal frameworks that fail to protect ecosystems.
Bridging geographies and disciplines
We aim to bridge international debates and local perspectives. Our team members have backgrounds working in countries with high concentration of biodiversity and critical ecosystems, this is coupled with experiences from international arenas. They combine in-depth knowledge of policy processes with data from stakeholders in the field, which allows them to bring viable solutions to the table.
We also have a strong focus on interdisciplinary approaches. Our team members have backgrounds from a wide array of fields, which allows us to develop innovative and comprehensive approaches.
Technological solutions
We leverage the latest technologies to support our goals and help support the development of technological tools to promote ecosystem protection. Technology plays a critical role in monitoring ecosystems and biodiversity. It also is key in improving transparency into corporate practices harming ecosystems. We seeks to find new ways of using available technologies to enhance ecosystem protection and corporate accountability.
Our work is organized around three main pillars that impact the future of the world’s ecosystems
Economic activities, regulations and investments are key to ecosystem conservation and climate change
Supply chains and corporate practice
Economic activities such as agriculture, mining and infrastructure are the main causes of ecosystem and biodiversity loss.
While these activities create profit for companies in the short-term, in the long term this uncurbed conversion of ecosystems will lead to depletion of the very natural-resources that these industries depend on. Smarter business models that respect ecosystems and local communities are needed to ensure long term economic stability. Economic activities should be done in a way that adhere to natural principles, create value for local communities and invest sustainable solutions.
Financial flows and investments
Through investments and other financial services, banks and investors enable the economic activities that drive ecosystem conversion, associated GHG emissions and biodiversity loss. By adopting policies and procedures that safeguards ecosystems, biodiversity and local livelihoods, they can ensure that their investment portfolios and other financial services are not causing or facilitating ecosystem loss and GHG emissions.
Investors and banks can also promote climate change mitigation and ecosystem conservation through supporting nature-based solutions and providing finance to mechanisms that support conservation and GHG emission reductions.
Legal and political frameworks
Illegal and illicit activities drive loss of ecosystems and corruption enables these activities and provides impunity for the actors benefiting from illegal conversion of ecosystems. While crimes are often committed in countries with high ecosystem cover, many of the ultimate beneficiaries and enablers of illicit goods and financial flows are based other countries. Global markets and actors create demand and facilitate the flow of these illicit goods and funds.
New and innovative approaches are needed to find ways of targeting the actors driving and facilitating these crimes. Transnational collaboration and in-depth investigations are key to uncovering the actors and networks that are responsible. Using a collaborative approach to build strategic litigation is key to succeeding in holding actors accountable.