Thesis
Our mission is essential to address existential risks.
6/9 planetary boundaries for human survival have been breached in 2022.
Planetary boundaries were defined as safe operating boundaries for humanity in a landmark 2015 scientific paper. Its 2022 revision has warned transgressions for climate, biosphere, chemicals, and more.
Nature-based solutions (NbS) can provide 30% of global mitigation towards the Paris climate agreement.
Lack of adequate financing is a key barrier to scale NbS. Despite providing around 30% of the climate change mitigation required, only about 3% of climate financing is currently directed towards nature. This will need to scale rapidly to meet sustainability goals.
USD 44 trillion of economic value generation, over half of the global economy, is moderately or highly dependent on nature.
Nature provides critical services such as pollination, water quality control and climatic regulation. Its continued degradation this leaves the global economy at severe risk of nature loss and environmental change.
Opportunity
Catalyzing nature-based solutions
Scale existing nature-based solutions initiatives.
Accelerate nature-based solutions and SDG-enabling technologies.
Market conditions are highly favourable
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International protocols such as the UN-led Global Biodiversity Framework have created strong mandates for businesses to halt and reverse nature loss.
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Voluntary carbon, the most liquid nature market, was valued at USD 2 billion in 2021, 4 times its value in 2020.
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Nature market is plagued with greenwashing, opacity, and neglect for Asia, where nature investments made up 10% of global flows, compared to 43% for Europe.