WE HELP YOU BUILD

NATURAL STRATEGIES

Turn your Biodiversity Goals into Biodiversity Leadership
Use our digital solutions to set your biodiversity targets, implement high-impact projects and attract nature-positive finance

OUR SERVICES

Our Services

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Become Nature Positive

We guide you on your journey to measure nature impacts, set targets and turn them into action.

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Achieve Corporate Net Zero

We help you measure, reduce and offset your carbon footprint and report your climate engagement.

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Develop Your Nature Project

We identify green investment opportunities to help you combine profitability with sustainability.

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Finance Protected Areas

We build funding proposals &

mobilize green finance to help you reach your biodiversity goals.

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ABOUT US

We are a team of international consultants that champions nature-positive business transformations, blending environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Supported by a suite of cutting-edge digital tools, our services are designed to guide businesses on their journey towards nature-friendly practices. We support in identifying biodiversity risks, building corporate nature-positive strategies, implementing biodiversity action, financing nature projects and reporting progress.

We build on our experience in 40+ countries to understand nature-related dependencies and impacts, engage in the greening of agriculture and food systems and mobilize public and private investments for biodiversity.

We have a global reach and ‘boots on the ground’ experience in identifying and structuring nature-based solutions projects, teaming with local communities to deliver economic and environmental benefits.

As such, we guide our clients along their entire journey to plan and implement their nature-positive engagement while optimizing for social and climate impacts.

OUR PROJECT FOOTPRINT

Projects

PROJECT SPOTLIGHTS

Developing corporate guidance for benefit sharing

Natural Strategies works with a private sector client to create benefit sharing guidance to be used by nature-based corporate actors that channel investment towards ecosystems and communities.

2023

Scaling up nature-based solutions funding for crop diversity

Natural Strategies designs a strategy for Crop Trust and GIZ to mobilize nature-based solutions financing to bolster global crop diversity.

2023

Mobilizing GCF funds in West Africa

Natural Strategies works with a bi-lateral development partner on a concept note for a GCF project to improve management and resilience of forest landscapes in West Africa

2023

Identifying sustainable finance for protected areas

In collaboration with UNDP, Natural Strategies helps fund biodiversity and protected area management in Cambodia.

2023

Conserving the Congo Basin

In collaboration with WWF and the Landscape Finance Lab, Natural Strategies mobilizes investment in nature-based solutions to conserve Central Africa’s rainforests.

2022

Reforming subsidies that impact biodiversity in Botswana

For UNDP, Natural Strategies analyzes subsidies' impact on biodiversity and communities, and drafts reform proposals to optimize across stakeholder priorities.

2022

UN decade on ecosystem restoration

Natural Strategies develops the UNEP & FAO full-scale funding proposal for the project ‘Leading the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030’.

2022

Reforming subsidies that impact biodiversity in South Africa

For UNDP, Natural Strategies develops proposals to reform economic incentives impacting biodiversity in South Africa.

2022

Guiding corporate sustainability action

Natural Strategies supports leading media & events company to assess its footprint, set sustainability targets and become more climate- and nature-friendly.

2021

Accelerating private sector impact investments

Natural Strategies supports a leading private sector impact investor in assessing the sustainability of its global investment portfolio and in identifying high-impact nature projects.

2021

Financing nature-based solutions in cities

Natural Strategies authors working paper for the G20 on financing urban forests, green roofs and other nature-based solutions in cities.

2021

Financing Nature-based Solutions in the Mediterranean

Natural Strategies identifies capitalization options for Nature-based Solutions in Spain, Greece, Tunisia and Morocco for the MAVA Foundation.

2021

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Alexander Koch
Founder &
Managing Director

Alexander is the Founder & Managing Director of Natural Strategies. He has supported biodiversity conservation & sustainable land use in more than 49 countries in Africa, Latin America & Asia with the UN & the private sector.

Sophie Bonnard
Public Policy Lead,
EMEA

Sophie has worked for 10+ years on international cooperation on sustainable development and global policy for climate change and nature-based solutions. She spent 7 of those years with the UN Environment Programme.

Team

OUR TEAM

Jess Kalisiak
Regional Lead,
South East Asia

Based in Cambodia, Jess co-develops Natural Strategies’ work on financing Nature-based Solutions in Cambodia and the region. She is a tropical marine biologist with experience in the Maldives, Seychelles, and Cambodia.

Lars Schmidt
Senior Technical Expert,
Carbon Projects

Lars develops feasibility studies, Project Idea Notes, and Project Designs for forest carbon projects across the globe, having worked with VCS and Plan Vivo methodologies in Myanmar, Laos, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, and the Congo Basin.

Laura Boehm
Associate Consultant

As an Associate Consultant with Natural Strategies, Laura works on our project execution across several nature-based themes. Among others, Laura worked with GIZ on low-emission development strategies in the MENA region.