Programmes & Initiatives

1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People (1000L) is a radical collaboration of change agents working together to accelerate landscape efforts to sustain and restore ecosystems, build rural prosperity and confront climate change.

The ‘Accelerating landscape regeneration at scale’ project seeks to refine, test and promote the ‘4 Returns Framework’ for holistic landscape regeneration. The project is a landmark 10 year collaboration between Commonland, Wetlands International and the Landscape Finance Lab to further develop The 4 Returns Framework, which brings together the combined best practices and methodologies of the three organisations.

Following a landscape approach methodology creates the conditions that make blended-finance possible through fostering inclusive partnerships between public, private and community stakeholders, and de-risking projects through technical assistance and capacity building.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has been working with the Landscape Finance Lab since 2020 to grow its Finance for Forest and Landscape Restoration Community of Practice and deliver online learning experiences in a range of formats including webinars, masterclasses, interactive workshops, fireside chats, live Q&As, and more. Most recently we have jointly delivered three Learning Challenges around the themes of 'Enabling conditions for attracting private finance', 'Climate finance for landscape restoration' and 'Private Sector Finance'.

Peatland Finance Ireland is one of Europe’s most ambitious national public-private peatland restoration initiatives. Now in Phase II, the Landscape Finance Lab, with the steering group, are designing a catchment-scale financing instrument for restoring up to 750,000 ha of peatlands across Ireland. Success will require integrated action by government, communities, forestry, energy, water and agriculture sectors. With effective restoration, these petlands have the potential to sequester up to 4.5 MtCO2 per annum, equivalent to removing more than 5% of national emissions and contributing to Ireland’s obligations under the new EU Restoration Directive. Lead partners include NPWS Ireland, European Investment Bank, ERINN Innovation, IUCN UK, Wetlands Int plus six government departments and two semi-states.

SNV is a global development organisation that aims to transform agri-food, energy and water systems, with projects in more than 20 countries across Africa and Asia. The Landscape Finance Lab and SNV are working together to define, build and embed a 'Landscape Approach' across SNV and across its portfolio of projects, in particular with Food Systems landscapes. In addition to shaping the strategy, the Lab will provide training and capacity building for SNV practitioners in landscape approaches and landscape finance along with technical assistance to a number of individual projects that already integrate some aspects of a landscape approach.

The Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) enables private sector investment in projects aimed at climate adaptation and mitigation in developing countries, made possible by an initial grant of €160 million by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to increase the resilience of communities and ecosystems most vulnerable to climate change. The DFCD is managed by a consortium of Climate Fund Managers (CFM), World Wide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF-NL) and SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, led by the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank, FMO.

Climate Catalyst consult, convene and campaign to drive decisive policy change on climate change, with a current focus on Asia and Europe.The Landscape Finance Lab and Climate Catalyst collaborate on knowledge-sharing and communications to boost investment in European peatlands as a climate solution.