OUR RECENT PROJECTS

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.

Carbon credits for conservation in the Congo

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

Carbon credits to fund protected area management

In collaboration with UNDP, Natural Strategies helps fund protected area management in Cambodia through REDD+ carbon credits and other sources.

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’.

Reforming subsidies that impact biodiversity in South Africa

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

Guiding corporate climate action

Natural Strategies supports leading media & events company to become climate-friendly and offset emissions through high-quality carbon projects.

Accelerating private sector carbon investments

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

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.

Carbon credits for biodiversity & protected areas

In collaboration with BirdLife International, Natural Strategies develops a country-wide sustainable finance plan for protected areas and biodiversity in São Tomé & Príncipe.

Creating protected areas finance plan

Natural Strategies develops a country-wide finance and investment plan for protected areas in Papua New Guinea, through REDD+ and other sources.

Unlocking private finance for forests

UNEP sets up a Seed Capital Assistance Facility to unlock private investments for forest & landscape restoration. Natural Strategies develops UNEP's funding proposal to BMU IKI.

Building a fund for biodiversity

Natural Strategies' Fund team establishes the Nature For Climate Fund, a new investment fund that aims to mobilize private sector finance for sustainable land use.

Analyzing benefit sharing mechanisms

Natural Strategies conducts a comparative analysis on benefit sharing under REDD+ globally.

Building Public-private partnerships for forests

Natural Strategies supports the EU REDD Facility on a public-private partnership to reduce deforestation.

Evaluating Private sector investment readiness

Natural Strategies supports Conservation International in phase I of its Forest Finance and Investment Incubator (FFII).

Strenghtening climate change engagement

Natural Strategies supports GIZ in the Democratic Republic of Congo to mainstream climate change into their development portfolio.

Protecting the world's top wetlands

Natural Strategies mobilizes finance for landscapes programmes in Paraguay and Zambia, to preserve some of the world's critical wetlands.

Helping access the GCF in 18 Countries

Natural Strategies Director Alexander Koch helps 18 countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa access the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

Supporting the REDD+ fund of DRC

Natural Strategies supports the USD 200 million National REDD+ Fund of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Mobilizing GCF funding for Galapagos

Natural Strategies helps turn measures of adapation to climate change into two concept notes for the Green Climate Fund.

Enabling green finance

Natural Strategies analyzes the enabling environment for green finance in Spain to contribute to the < 2-degree target of the Paris Agreement.