The Landbanking Group

In 2021 the Terra Carta was brought into life as a guiding mandate for the Sustainable Markets Initiative, providing a proposed set of principles that puts Nature, People and Planet at the heart of global value creation. Since then, the Sustainable Markets Initiative has developed multiple high impact initiatives to achieve the Terra Carta objectives. And SMI’s Africa Council convenes investors with a mission to finance Africa’s Nationally Determined Contributions and reach the Paris climate targets. The Landbanking Group is a proud SMI member and participated in the conversation on how to use AI to provide investment performance data, how to trace investments into Africa, and how to make Africa’s unique natural assets investible. The conclusion: Financial systems are under stress and must soon recognize the risk-mitigating and resilience benefits of nature, and start to create financial instruments for insurance, investors and industry. Given Africa’s nature richness, it is the natural starting point.

A Planetary Upgrade Planet launched their new high-resolution Forest Carbon Monitoring product at the New York Climate Week. This is a great leap forward in the ecosystem analytics field that helps support trust, transparency, and accountability in forest supply chains and nature-based solutions. Data and measurement build the basis of scalable and responsible climate action, so at The Landbanking Group we are happy to work with a number of excellent MRV partners: Thank you Lobelia Earth, SONSETC MAKING SENSE OF SOUNDS SL and Planet. Have a look at the Forest Carbon Product here: https://lnkd.in/dU5FPYTm

Nature is streched – overstretched. And so are farmers and business that count on healthy ecosystems. In our current world, a farmer, who depletes his land makes more money - or just enough money. But degradation is already hitting home. Floods are growing more and more frequent. They erode the soil and wash away nutrients. Droughts destroy harvests, leaving the ground crusty and cracked. And plantations are a feast for pests and diseases. This shakes up entire industries. The first to go: chocolate, coffee, and oranges. Felipe Villela, Big Bets Fellow and The Landbanking Business Development Manager, held a pitch on our solution to make the dream of a nature-centric economy reality. We built a digital system that makes nature investable and the delivery of natural capital an income stream. With this farmers can 1. Measure the health of every plot on his farm.  1. Book the health as capital on a natural capital account.  1. Offer their customers to invest in this natural capital. So, they create a risk partnership.  1. And the investor can treat the investment like a balance-sheet grade asset. 

We have been very impatient to communicate this. A new way of investing in nature conservation is coming. Incredibly proud to show you a sneak peek at what our team has been working on for quite some time: with the upcoming release, we are adding conservation projects to Landler, our natural capital management platform. It will be the first platform to provide dynamic, scalable ecological integrity monitoring for every square kilometre of protected land. Every conservationist will be able to upload their project on Landler and unlock new sources of funding to protect high integrity ecosystems. Every investor will be able to purchase measured units of nature conservation from any project originator. In other words, making investments based on measured, verified, positive nature outcomes. The measurements are produced by a robust scientific methodology that our team has developed in close collaboration with our world-class scientific community. It merges satellite data with ground data to marry scalability with accuracy. We are also looking forward to share more about the methodology. Sign up to get access before everyone else: https://lnkd.in/ei7PFaN6

Live from NY - The Resilience Hub The first day of the New York Climate Week was kicked off with a number of events, all over the city. Part of the Landbanking Team attended the Resilience Hub by the Global Resilience Partnership and The COP Resilience Hub. The Planet discussion lead to the main point of the role of the insurance sector and investors in climate adaptation solution finding. Insurances are heavily impacted by the effects of climate change, weather events and supply-chain insecurities. And making investments in risk management requires making investments into nature. So, including insurances and the private sector to work on climate adaption is essential. The Finance session covered the necessity of global collaboration to solving and adapting to climate change. The effects of climate change are not equally distributed, so a financing solution that brings together countries of different levels of risk is needed. And our innovation mindset needs to develop from “Innovating our way to extinction” to “boring works”. The People Session focused on the role of leadership in adapting to changes, and turning required action into a mainstream idea. The discussion focuses on both the aspects of climate action as well as addressing underlying drivers of vulnerability such as poverty alleviation and ensuring the fulfilment of basic human rights. Our takeaway: - The private sector must be active in adapting to climate change and alleviating supply chain risk - We need a global approach to addressing a global issue - We must support people, who are carrying the brunt of the consequences of weather event, and finance those who are doing the on the ground work to ease the effects Stay tuned for more news from NY and see the upcoming events of our Team here: https://lnkd.in/dQtThsYU

Join us in building the operating system for a nature-based economy. We’re looking for a talented Designer with strong visual design skills to help bring our vision to life. 🌍 If you’re based in Germany, and want to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you. We’re a growing team with two designers already on board! 🔗 Apply now and be part of something transformative! https://lnkd.in/dSDJGxD4 #Hiring #Designer #VisualDesign #ClimateAction #Germany #Sustainability #PurposeDriven

With frequent floods, fires and climate catastrophes becoming the norm, traditional insurance models are becoming more and more unsustainable with the rising costs of climate-related damages. This makes it near impossible to insure infrastructure in certain regions. And the most sustainable, long-lasting and effective measure we can take is implementing proactive risk reduction strategies: Reliable risk assessments to adapt infrastructure to climate risks, implementing regenerative land-use practices, and emphasising environmental conservation. This helps to mitigate the impacts of climate change and reduce damages and cost of weather events.

This is huge. At DLD Conference on Nature held in Munich last Saturday, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered a landmark speech on Nature: “We need a fundamental rethink of the relationship between our economy and the natural world. And there is a growing awareness that intact nature does have an economic value.” She added: “Yesterday, one of you put it brilliantly, we need to put nature on the balance sheet.”, reflecting on the proposition brought forward by TLG founder and conference co-host Prof. Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey in a panel discussion with Johan Rockström, Stefan B. Wintels and Solveigh Hieronimus.   It is increasingly recognized that nature should be treated as an asset and not a cost. Like any other asset, nature is a source of future benefits that deserves to receive investments in maintenance and improvement. Integrating natural capital into the economic equation is needed, feasible and attractive. And slowly underway.   The team at The Landbanking Group and its strategic partners is dedicated to bring #NatureOnTheBalanceSheet. And to provide the scientific, technological, legal and financial infrastructure that is required to measure and manage nature impacts and dependencies, mitigate risks and monetize thriving nature. A new generation of tech innovations allows us to move: 🌿 Landowners – can start managing their land towards better biodiversity, soil, carbon and water outcomes, enter into nature performance agreements and receive payments for nature stewardship. 🏢 Businesses - can derisk their supply chain and capitalize the costs on their balancesheet (as Nature Equity https://lnkd.in/d5E6vwmH), or invest into Nature Contribution beyond their value chain (more to be announced on the latter very soon). 🏦 Banks and Asset Managers - can offer outcome-based loans and issue nature-linked financial instruments. 🏛️Governments – can shift agriculture and ecosystem management to outcome-based systems.   We tend to agree with the commission president’s assessment of the nature crisis: “After every crisis, a recovery is possible. It is not for granted, but it is possible. With the spirit of innovators and problem solvers it can be done.” Time to act.

The International Law firm Bird & Bird Germany is one of the first owners of a Landler Natural Capital Account and investors in measured uplifts of nature improvements. The investment supports seven farms around Al Fayium represented by the egyptian biodynamic association ebda. The farms cultivate a number of organic products, such as herbs, sesame and lavender. On top of manuring with Alfalfa, as an alternative to chemical or nitrogen heavy fertilizers, and implementing crop rotations, the farmers are converting part of the desert sand into productive and healthy soils for cropland by improving the soil fertility and adding organic nutrients.  One small step for Bird & Bird a large step for the nature finance world!

"A group of 26 investors collectively managing $1.4trn of assets are asking large businesses to urgently assess and disclose their impacts and dependencies on nature, to enhance risk preparedness." Nature is increasingly recognized as critical infrastructure for businesses, and companies need to be ready. https://lnkd.in/dh4h7E3G