The explorer.land project stage @NOAH Zurich aims to facilitate investments and funding towards impactful projects restoring and protecting nature. For the first time ever, a networking event with leading startups and investors featured a carefully curated climate & biodiversity project portfolio. Only projects with meaningful and verifiable climate, biodiversity, and social impacts participated.
On the explorer.land project stage, project presenters:
- shared their story 🌳🐆🌴👪🌲
- defined the capital needs 💸 required to scale 📈
- discussed the expected social 🪜, economic 💼, and environmental returns 🌍
Check out the explorer.land project stage line-up:
Dive a little deeper with a compilation of selected larger restoration initiatives.
AlVelAl: expanding regenerative landscapes in South-Eastern Spain
Investment need: $52.6 million (10 years)
Restoration potential: 1 million hectares
Social impact: > 400 members to date
Acción Andina: building a community driven movement to restore 1 million hectares of high Andean forests
Investment need: ~ US$75 million (10 years)
Restoration potential: 1 million hectares (6.5 million trees planted to date)
Social impact: >18,000 people engaged to date
WeForest: bringing the Great Green Wall to life with local communities in Ethiopia and Senegal
Investment need: US$14 million
Restoration target: > 50,000 hectares Ethiopia and Senegal
Social impact: support 23,000 families in Ethiopia
Conservation International Suriname: saving 1 billion trees by building socio-ecological resilience
Investment need: US$12 million
Forest protection: 1 million hectares in Suriname
Social impact: income generation for local communities
