The Landscape Finance Lab supports practitioners and investors to
structure, launch and finance deals at landscape scale.
Featured Landscapes
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Scotland
The Flow CountryMoreThe Flow Country Green Finance Initiative aims to deliver ecological restoration, sustainable land use, a carbon investment model, support for circular business and community development. The regional aspiration, as defined through a stakeholder workshop, is to achieve a multi-use landscape where healthy and restored peatlands support globally significant biodiversity and
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Zambia
Kafue Flats, ZambiaMoreA vision to maintain the vast wetlands of the Zambezi basin, like the Kafue Flats, to remain wild water landscapes. In turn providing consistent fishing opportunities, building materials for homes, fodder for animals, and water supply.
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Paraguay
Upper Parana Atlantic ForestsMoreThe Upper Parana River region includes the iconic Iguazu Falls. Once all rainforests home to large populations of jaguars, now only small disconnected patches remain. The program aims to establish biodiversity corridors to connect, protect and restore forests remnants and support more sustainable agriculture within a wider river basin approach.
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DFCD supportedPhoto Credit: Robert de Jongh / WWF
Colombia
The Pacifico Norte landscapeMoreThe Choco-Darien is an extremely biodiversity rich region recognised for its mangroves, estuarine forests, lowland and montane rainforests. It has more than 7,500 species of plant, 700 butterflies, and more than 1,500 birds, as well as important populations of coastal species such as marine turtles and humpback whales.
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Fiji Islands
Great Sea ReefMoreThe reef has been part of the Fijian lifestyle for centuries, and now generates almost half of the Fiji economy through tourism and fisheries. The Great Sea Reef program will address the threats to the resilience of the reefs including siltation, nutrient poisoning, habitat loss and poor waste management. This
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Georgia
Western Georgia Forest Landscape PartnershipMoreThis program aims to secure multiple functions of the landscape including biodiversity, carbon storage, climate resilience and local economy through multipurpose sustainable management of forests, agriculture and rivers with associated value chains.
Collaborative Partners
The Landscape Finance Lab would like to thank all contributors, collaborators and supporters for making our work possible. We extend a special thank you to our partners in incubating sustainable landscapes; WWF offices (particularly WWF Sweden, WWF Switzerland, WWF Netherlands, WWF Cambodia, WWF Caucusus, WWF Paraguay, WWF Pacific, WWF Germany, WWF US and WWF Cameroon). Our partners at the 1000 Landscapes Initiative; Commonland, Ecoagriculture Partners, UNDP, Rainforest Alliance, Tech Matters and Conservation International. H&M Group, Barry Callebaut, IKEA, WCS, GERES, IDH The Sustainable Trade Initiative, Climate Bonds Initiative, Clarmondial, PWC, CPIC (Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation), Althelia, UN FAO, Southpole, Gold Standard, Crowdicity, WRI, IERSt, &Green, Ecosia, IUCN, GFA Consulting group, Ikigai Advisors, Terranomics, Kirkland and Ellis, League of Intrapreneurs, Stritih Associates, The Earth Care Agency, Freshfield Lawyers, 100Years, Birdlife International, TierraMar, New Generation Plantations and EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy.
