The Landbanking Group

Our Product team is growing! Product owner at mind and sustainable systems thinker at heart, Stephanie Strifert is a great addition to The Landbanking Group. We are happy to have you on board! 

Beacons of hope and expertise - in dialogue with the young farmers of Andechs Andechs lies between Lake Starnberg and Lake Ammer, and holds one of Europe’s best known organic dairy farms. And it is once again farmers who are the become key players in maintaining a stable and sustainable future with their work and expertise: For food security, landscape and climate protection and for our social risk management. The current funding landscape does not allow farmers to adequately fulfil this important role. New solutions are on the table and are the subject of heated debate. Prof. Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey discussed this topic with a number of engaged young farmers at the invitation of Barabara Scheitz, Managing Partner of Andechser Molkerei Scheitz GmbH. 

How do we measure success? Listen to Dr. Sonja Stuchtey Stuchtey at the CEO2-neutral Podcast, discussing the definition of success and how we measure it. Sonja talks about the relevance of natural capital to ensure the future viability of companies and The Landbanking Group’s approach to protecting nature. Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/dP4qrPw3

We are looking forward to this years’ COP16 Colombia with much excitement. With Action Plans and Biodiversity at its center, we expect much movement in the conservation space, especially in the Nature Finance sector. Let us give you a preview of some exciting topics we'll be discussing: 1. The launch of a new Landler release which will make it easy to finance nature conservation, at scale. We shared a first glimpse during Climate Week and we can't wait to make it public. 2. Building up on the momentum created by African Parks Network with their first successful Verifiable Nature Unit (VNU) transaction. A concrete example of outcome-based nature finance, now ready to be taken to scale. 3. Putting nature on the balance sheet - our leitmotif since we started, with exciting developments we are looking forward to share. Join us at these exciting events at COP16: Thursday, Oct 24th: 📅“Insuring the Nature Positive Transition” with Nature Tech Collective 📅“Redefining success – Integrating the value of nature, people, society and economy in decision-making” with Capitals Coalition Friday, Oct 25th: 📅“Scaling Regenerative Agriculture in Brazil: a new asset class to make investment in resilience an asset”, organized by The Landbanking Group 📅“Developing a New Currency for Nature – the Verifiable Nature Unit: Going fast and far, together!” with African Parks Network Saturday, Oct 26th: 📅“Putting Nature on the Balance Sheet” with Capitals Coalition and Systemiq Ltd. 📅“Feeding the Future: Harmonising Food Systems with the Natural World” with World Climate Foundation 📅“Venture Beyond: Why Aligning Finance and Innovation Drives Nature Positive Investment” with NatureFinance 📅 “Leveraging technology to unlock investments in nature and derisk supply chains” with EY, Lobelia Earth, ECOACSA, Reserva de Biodiversidad Sunday, Oct 27th 📅 “Developing a New Currency for Nature – The Verifiable Nature Unit: critical infrastructure for the nature finance market” with African Parks Network Monday, Oct 28th 📅 “Unlocking private finance to enable a just transition towards a regenerative economy? Impact investing in NbS for Adaptation as entry point” with ALTAMIRA Tuesday, Oct 29th 📅 “Mobilising Private Sector Finance to Restore and Protect Nature” with Sustainable Markets Initiative 📅Embedding Biodiversity into Decision Making at Every Level with Sustainable Markets Initiative Our team at COP16: Prof. Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey Jamie Batho Felipe Villela Liliana Andrea Martinez Sarmiento Elisabeth Theresa Seeger For event details staying updated, visit this page https://lnkd.in/eRvbSKjY

The Landbanking Group’s Nature Fund is one of 10 instruments to be endorsed by The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance. At NYCW we launched The Landbanking Group Nature Fund, a closed-end debt facility that finances the protection of standing ecosystems, and the restoration of degraded landscapes to reduce pressures on high-integrity ecosystems. The facility is underpinned by Nature Equity Contracts - a new market mechanism that enables investments directly into the natural capital that supports business models, portfolios and economic productivity. We are proud to be part of a record-setting 10th cohort that presents a combined $490 million in investment opportunities and are kicking off work in Brazil with our partner Belterra Agroforestry. Thank you to all of our partners in the development and launch of this instrument: Climate Policy Initiative, The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Finance in Motion, The Rockefeller Foundation, IFU, Green Climate Fund, CrossBoundary Group, MUFG, RMB - Rand Merchant Bank and BlackRock. Read more about The Landbanking Group’s work at the Lab: https://lnkd.in/d94g6zqW

Data and Donuts Cecil and The Landbanking Group hosted a data breakfast at the New York Climate Week. Reliable and high quality data is the foundation on which we can build MRV systems, analytics tools, management tools, and financial products that allow businesses to invest into the natural capital that underpins business models and portfolios. Thank you to our friends at Cecil for hosting us in New York to discuss exactly this topic along with a broad community of corporates, rating agencies, investors, Consultants, government agencies and a host of nature-techs. Helen Crowley, Kat Bruce, Kobi Weinberg, Rory Oxenham, Alex Logan, Tom Walker

We are soaring to new heights! The Landbanking LinkedIn community just reached 10k followers. These are people and companies that, like us, have begun treating nature as wealth. A small, but motivating step towards designing the nature-based economy we all envision. Thank you to everyone who joined the journey! (And spread the word, the wave is only getting bigger)

During the World Living Soil Summit, Dr. Sonja Stuchtey had the joy and privilge to discuss why and how to lift nature on the balance sheet. The pinpointed issue was twofold: Addressing transitory risks due to changing regulations and physical risks stemming from environmental changes. One is looking in the rearview mirror, the other is focussing fully on the front shield. And both are very necessary to manage the path ahead. Where there is risk present there is opportunity - not least by investing in nature as green infrastructure, - essential for long-term business sustainability. This builds on three important actions to get our heads and hands around: Investments in Nature:  To embrace the opportunity companies must go beyond reporting and take action. A good option is investing in natural capital and using platforms to monitor progress. Supply Chain Collaboration:  Companies and communities alike live on landscapes and their productivity. This calls for joint investments in landscapes and regenerative landuse for more resilient supply chains. Long-term Thinking:  A broader, more holistic approach to defining success is needed, that focuses on sustainable practices. These ensure future fitness and benefit the next generation.

The Landbanking Group is celebrating The Enric Sala! The rationalist, the explorer, the universalist, the humanist, the optimist and the person Enric Sala. These were the themes that TLG founder Prof. Dr. Martin R. Stuchtey addressed in his laudatory speech at a very festive award ceremony at the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde. Enric is an renowned marine biologist. He is globally recognized voice of the ocean. Together with Kristin Rechberger he managed to raise awareness for its beauty and life supporting function with numerous films and a must-read book “The Nature of Nature”. Most importantly, Enric stands for the Pristine Seas initiative which he founded as a senior fellow of the National Geographic Society. It has helped create Marine Protected Areas of 7 million square kilometers or 7 trillion squaremeters. So, Martin asked amidst a Frankfurt crowd in Germany’s financial center: “What is more wealth: a dollar on your bank account, or a squarementer nature proteced on your natural capital account.” And closed: Congratulations Enric Sala, voila un homme!

Incredible news: African Parks Network has completed the first-ever Verifiable Nature Unit transactions for the Majete Wildlife Reserve, issuing 144 VNUs to the AWE for Nature Foundation and 58 VNUs to SUN Institute Environment & Sustainability (Deutsche Post Foundation). The Verifiable Nature Unit is an outcome-based financial instrument that African Parks has co-developed with The Landbanking Group to drive finance towards nature conservation. Each VNU represents a square kilometer of ecologically intact land. Congratulations to African Parks for achieving this impressive milestone, paving the road towards a future where nature stewardship is fairly rewarded. Read more about the VNU’s, including how they are measured, here: https://bit.ly/3ZuDqF6 The pictures capture the beauty of the Majete Wildlife Reserve in Malawi, once again reminding us that nature is wealth, and should be treated as such. Pictures by Marcus Westberg for African Parks