Large-scale landscape initiatives are where co-investment meets the ground. These programs deliver the climate, biodiversity, and livelihood outcomes that funders are seeking—but only if they have funding that matches their scale, governance complexity, and time horizons.
Tropical forests are more important than ever for climate stability, biodiversity, water systems, and livelihoods. That importance has only increased. The challenge is that the dominant financing mechanism—REDD+ structured around offset claims—has not delivered at scale and faces deep credibility problems.
The monitoring, reporting, and verification systems built for jurisdictional REDD+ are among the strongest elements of current forest finance architecture. The problem lies in how results are claimed and how funding flows. People recognize the irreplaceable value of tropical forests but struggle to wrap that value in a market instrument. That is not a reason to stop funding—it is a reason to fund differently.
We work with jurisdictional programs on funding strategy that does not depend on the offset claim—designing mechanisms that channel co-investment from multiple sources, with accountability to measured results, at the scale these programs require.
Indigenous peoples manage a significant share of the world’s remaining intact ecosystems. Their territorial management systems deliver measurable climate and biodiversity outcomes. Yet the funding architecture of climate finance was not built for Indigenous-led approaches—it was built around projects, methodologies, and credit markets that often conflict with Indigenous governance, sovereignty, and priorities.
The Indigenous Territorial Management Platform is a proof-of-concept for channeling contribution capital to Indigenous-led climate solutions, working through Indigenous intermediaries like the Podáali Fund, Nusantara Fund, and Shandia Platform. The design is partnership-first: Indigenous institutions set the terms, and the funding architecture adapts to their governance—not the other way around.
