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2025: A year of Hard Truths – and Genuine Hope for Climate and Biodiversity

2025 forced the world to see two truths at once: climate risks are accelerating faster than expected, and yet global momentum behind Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) is stronger, more scientific, and more collaborative than ever. At OpenForests, we sit exactly in...

December 3, 2025

OpenForests & ARARA: The Digital MRV Blueprint for Amazon Restoration Finance

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OpenForests & ARARA: The Digital MRV Blueprint for Amazon Restoration Finance

The Challenge: Restoring the Amazon The Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in global climate regulation, but it is under threat from deforestation, leading to devastating consequences such as droughts, fires, and climate instability. Smallholder farmers and Indigenous stewards are...

November 26, 2025

Tim Christophersen: We’re in a toxic relationship with Nature

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Tim Christophersen: We’re in a toxic relationship with Nature

Intro In this episode of our podcast Beyond the Canopy, host Alexander talks with Tim Christophersen, Vice President of Climate Action at Salesforce and former UN Environment Expert, about his groundbreaking book “Generation Restoration: How to Fix Our Relationship with...

November 25, 2025

OpenForests partners with biometrio.earth

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OpenForests partners with biometrio.earth

Biodiversity monitoring for NbS projects OpenForests is excited to partner with biometrio.earth, to integrate advanced biodiversity data into explorer.land, the transparency hub for nature restoration. This collaboration will strengthen the ability of nature restoration projects to transparently track, monitor, and...

October 28, 2025

OpenForests, proud founders of explorer.land

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OpenForests, proud founders of explorer.land

We launched explorer.land in 2018 with a big dream: to make nature restoration projects visible, tangible, and trustworthy through an interactive map. To basically create the “Google Maps” of Nature Restoration. To give organizations a stage and build trust through...

October 14, 2025

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The “Fake” forest that pays for itself

Intro Welcome to Beyond the Canopy, the podcast where we dive into the most innovative approaches to ecosystem restoration and impact-driven investments. In today’s episode, we’re joined by Andreas Eke, co-founder of Generation Forest, a pioneering initiative in tropical forestry....

September 16, 2025

Ecosia’s Circular Funding Model with Mathias Perobelli Schmidt

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Ecosia’s Circular Funding Model with Mathias Perobelli Schmidt

Intro In this episode of our podcast Beyond the Canopy, Alexander Watson sits down with Mathias Perobelli Schmidt , Agroforestry Investment Specialist at Ecosia, to unpack the concept of Circular Funding—a regenerative finance model that recycles returns into tree-planting, agroforestry,...

September 16, 2025

Circular Funding: How ECOSIA brings flexibility in Nature Restoration investments

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Circular Funding: How ECOSIA brings flexibility in Nature Restoration investments

Rethinking how we finance tree-planting When most people think of Ecosia, they think of trees—and with good reason. Since its launch in 2009, Ecosia has funded the planting of over 230 million trees in more than 35 countries, making it...

September 16, 2025

Alejandro Diaz: Commonland’s 4 Returns Funding Approach

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Alejandro Diaz: Commonland’s 4 Returns Funding Approach

Intro In this episode of our podcast Beyond the Canopy, Alexander sits down with Alejandro Diaz, Landscape Finance Manager at Commonland, to discuss how to unlock substantial fundings for large scale landscape restoration and scape from a project view to...

August 20, 2025

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What Makes a GOOD Carbon Project?

Intro In Beyond the Canopy, the podcast presented by Alexander Watson, CEO at OpenForests, we dive deep into innovative approaches to ecosystem restoration and impact-driven investments. In this episode, Alexander sits down with Michael Rumberg, Managing Director at Volkswagen Climate...

July 10, 2025

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Author: Léa Smadja

2025: A year of Hard Truths – and Genuine Hope for Climate and Biodiversity

OpenForests & ARARA: The Digital MRV Blueprint for Amazon Restoration Finance

Tim Christophersen: We’re in a toxic relationship with Nature

OpenForests partners with biometrio.earth

OpenForests, proud founders of explorer.land

The “Fake” forest that pays for itself

Ecosia’s Circular Funding Model with Mathias Perobelli Schmidt

Circular Funding: How ECOSIA brings flexibility in Nature Restoration investments

Alejandro Diaz: Commonland’s 4 Returns Funding Approach

What Makes a GOOD Carbon Project?

2025: A year of Hard Truths – and Genuine Hope for Climate and Biodiversity

OpenForests & ARARA: The Digital MRV Blueprint for Amazon Restoration Finance

Tim Christophersen: We’re in a toxic relationship with Nature

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