The Landscape Finance Lab was founded within WWF in 2016 and in June 2025 celebrates four years as an independent NGO.

The world faces intersecting crises in climate, biodiversity, water, food, and governance. Landscape finance addresses these market failures by integrating solutions across sectors, geographies, and scales. 

In this report we take a look at our trajectory over the last two years. Read on for:

  • highlights and major milestones for the Lab and the landscapes we work with
  • a high-level snapshot of our impact and the creation of finance solutions for landscapes
  • updates to our strategy and landscape incubation methodology, as we adapt to better work at the scale of nature and the speed of finance