We’ve had the privilege of walking alongside Indigenous and environmental organisations around the world, weaving local context with insights from global experts.

A clear pattern has emerged: community organisations at the forefront of addressing the wicked and intertwined challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change often bounce from one short term grant to the next. 

We began to imagine a different future — one where community organisations don’t carry the responsibility alone. What if we could flip the model? What would it take to create a collective that connects community with expert advisors, philanthropy, government, businesses and investors — one that delivers the right type of finance at the right time, shaped by local context and grounded in Indigenous leadership and equitable partnerships?   

And more of the work must be led by Indigenous Peoples who manage a third of the world’s remaining natural carbon stores and around 40% of the world’s large, intact ecosystems.