OUR RECENT PROJECTS
2024
Supporting CSRD and EUDR compliance
Natural Strategies develops cutting-edge digital tool to help businesses assess their impacts on nature around the world.
2024
Engaging businesses in nature-positive practices
In collaboration with UNDP, Natural Strategies helps private businesses engage in nature-related action.
2024
Guiding accreditation with the Green Climate Fund
Natural Strategies guides the International Trade Centre's due diligence process to access climate funding for SMEs around the world.
2023
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.
2022
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
Reforming subsidies that impact biodiversity in South Africa
For UNDP, Natural Strategies develops proposals to reform economic incentives impacting biodiversity in South Africa.
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’.
2021
Guiding corporate sustainability action
Natural Strategies supports leading media & events company to assess its footprint, set sustainability targets and become more climate- and nature-friendly.
2021
Assessing sustainability of investment portfolio
Natural Strategies supports a leading private sector impact investor in assessing the sustainability of its global investment portfolio and in identifying high-impact nature projects.
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
Building a fund for biodiversity
Natural Strategies designed the Nature For Climate Fund, an investment fund aiming to mobilize private sector finance for biodiversity & sustainable land use.
2021
Creating biodiversity & protected area financing plan
In collaboration with BirdLife International, Natural Strategies develops a country-wide sustainable finance plan for protected areas and biodiversity in São Tomé & Príncipe.
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
Creating biodiversity finance plan
Natural Strategies develops a country-wide finance and investment plan for biodiversity and protected areas in Papua New Guinea.
2021
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.
2020
Analyzing benefit sharing mechanisms
Natural Strategies conducts a comparative analysis on benefit sharing under REDD+ globally.
2020
Building Public-private partnerships for forests
Natural Strategies supports the EU REDD Facility on a public-private partnership to reduce deforestation.
2020
Evaluating Private sector investment readiness
Natural Strategies supports Conservation International in phase I of its Forest Finance and Investment Incubator (FFII).
2020
Strenghtening climate change engagement
Natural Strategies supports GIZ in the Democratic Republic of Congo to mainstream climate change into their development portfolio.
2020
Protecting the world's top wetlands
Natural Strategies mobilizes finance for landscapes programmes in Paraguay and Zambia, to preserve some of the world's key wetlands and their biodiversity.
2020
Helping access the GCF in 18 Countries
In support of UNDP, Natural Strategies Director Alexander Koch helped 18 countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa access the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
2019
Supporting the REDD+ fund of DRC
Natural Strategies' Director Alexander Koch supported the USD 200 million National REDD+ Fund of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
2019
Mobilizing GCF funding for Galapagos
Natural Strategies helps turn measures of adaptation to climate change into two concept notes for the Green Climate Fund.