WE HELP YOU BUILD

NATURAL STRATEGIES

Turn your Biodiversity Goals into Biodiversity Leadership
Set your biodiversity targets, mobilize nature-positive finance and implement high-impact projects

Our Services

OUR SERVICES

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Develop Your Nature Positive 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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Achieve Corporate Net Zero

We guide you on your climate path to measure, reduce and offset your carbon footprint.

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ABOUT US

We help organizations translate their biodiversity goals into biodiversity leadership, working with clients to:

Design biodiversity and climate finance plans
Shift finance flows to nature-positive activities
Implement high-impact nature-based projects

We build on our experience in 40+ countries to assess the economics and finance of sustainable land use, engage in the greening of agriculture and food systems and mobilize public and private investments on the landscape level.

We also have a global reach and ‘boots on the ground’ experience in developing 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, finance 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 climate action

Natural Strategies supports leading media & events company to identify emission sources, set climate targets and become more climate-friendly.

2021

Accelerating private sector impact investments

Natural Strategies supports a leading private sector impact investor in identifying high-impact nature-based solution projects and in assessing the sustainability of other green investments globally.

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.