Who we are

Our Mission

NatureFinance’s mission is to align global finance with equitable, nature-positive outcomes.

We are a small hybrid organisation, set within a mission led, not-for-profit institutional framework that blends multiple modalities and associated financing flows.

Our strategic approach is driven by a profound understanding of the urgent, interrelated climate and nature loss challenges facing our world today.

We recognise the imperative to swiftly address the systemic role of finance in accelerating global warming and nature loss and create a new architecture for an equitable global nature economy.

Our Approach

NatureFinance collaborates with financial institutions and multinational organisations to leverage the role of finance in helping address the nature and climate crises in equitable, impactful and innovative ways.

Our approach is grounded in visionary pragmatism, drawing on new and existing frameworks and partnerships to drive quantum shifts in the status-quo.

NatureFinance’s work is underpinned by three cross-cutting pathways to impact:

  1. Policy and regulatory: we work to shape the enabling frameworks for nature finance and nature positive, equitable markets.
  2. Market development:we work to create an ecosystem of investable, nature-related ventures with the potential to shape nature positive markets.
  3. Engagement and advocacy: we work to build coalitions of practice, public engagement and communication, supporting civil society development and actions around aligning finance with nature positive, equitable outcomes.
  4. Innovation and incubation actcivities: we work to accelerate nature-positive outcomes at scale through seeding and supporting new efforts like our Sustainability Linked Debt Hub (SSDH).

How We Work

We act, design, build and operate governance processes as well as influence through service-based interventions and innovative, catalytic investments, driving ‘market advocacy’. This, paired with our predictive/ insightful/ catalytic reframing allows us to connect the dots between key emerging themes, practical applications, and timeliness.

We are not afraid to consider the implications of what a hotter, wilder, more unpredictable world will look like, and develop our strategies with systemic disruption as the expectation, rather than a possible risk.

Our clarity, unreasonable ambition and pragmatic viewpoint allow for strong technical/ market/ policy competence and depth.

Unique Geneva & Swiss Ecosystem

Our work benefits from and contributes to the unique Geneva, and Swiss international ecosystem of financial, corporate, technological, policy and civil actors to enable it to become a global hub of excellence in nature-related finance.

Meet the Team

Amanda Santos Lopes
Amanda Santos Lopes, Global Brazil Administrator-Coordinator
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Anastasia Biselli
Anastasia Biselli, Communications and Engagement Coordinator
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Annia Costermani Visconti
Annia Costermani Visconti, Program Manager
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Arend Kulenkampff
Arend Kulenkampff, Sovereign Financing Lead and Director – Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub
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Athulya Purushothaman
Athulya Purushothaman, Researcher and Project Manager
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Barbara Oldani
Barbara Oldani, Stakeholder Engagement Lead – Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub
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Daniel Muthiani
Daniel Muthiani, Associate – Operations
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Eva Sirp
Eva Sirp, Senior Associate – Administration
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Fiona Napier
Fiona Napier, Senior Advisor
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Gregor Pipan
Gregor Pipan, Senior Associate – Sovereign Debt
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Gustavo Martins
Gustavo Martins, Senior Associate for Global Brazil
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Hiba Larsson
Hiba Larsson, Principal – Nature Investment
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Holger Schmid
Holger Schmid, Principal
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Indekhwa Anangwe
Indekhwa Anangwe, Grants Developer and Coordinator
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Isobel Cohen
Isobel Cohen, Principal
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Jeremy Eppel
Jeremy Eppel, Senior Advisor
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Joanna Benn
Joanna Benn, Communications Director
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Joanna O’Malley
Joanna O’Malley, Program Coordinator
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Julie McCarthy
Julie McCarthy, CEO
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Justin Mundy
Justin Mundy, Senior Advisor and Chairman of the Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub
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Katherine Keddie
Katherine Keddie, Advisor
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Kayla Rodrigues
Kayla Rodrigues, Programme Administrator
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Konstantina Koulouri
Konstantina Koulouri, Project Manager – SEED
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Lilian Mbeva
Lilian Mbeva, Finance Associate
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Louis de Montpellier
Louis de Montpellier, Senior Advisor
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Luana Maia
Luana Maia, Global Brazil Lead
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Marcelo Furtado
Marcelo Furtado, Principal
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Mark Halle
Mark Halle, Senior Advisor
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Martina Tamvakou
Martina Tamvakou, Program Coordinator – Sustainability-linked Sovereign Debt Hub
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Matt Jaworski
Matt Jaworski, Advisor – Web and Digital Communications
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Melina Inglese
Melina Inglese, Finance & Operations Director
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Monique Atouguia
Monique Atouguia, Nature Market Program Manager
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Natan Aquino
Natan Aquino, Advisor – Brand and Design
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Nicholas Niggli
Nicholas Niggli, Associate Principal – Beyond 1.5
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Rupesh Madlani
Rupesh Madlani, Senior Advisor
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Roberta Zandonai
Roberta Zandonai, Communications Senior Associate
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Samruddhi Kothari
Samruddhi Kothari, Research Consultant
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Shereen Wiseman
Shereen Wiseman, Associate – Coordination
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Sarah Krisht
Sarah Krisht, Nature Risk Lead
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Simon Zadek
Simon Zadek, Senior Advisor
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Sylvain Coutu
Sylvain Coutu, Senior Associate – Food
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Meet the Board

Abyd Karmali
Abyd Karmali, Board Member
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Isabel Hoffman
Isabel Hoffman, Board Member
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Marianne Haahr
Marianne Haahr, Chair and Board Member
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Sanjaasuren Oyun
Sanjaasuren Oyun, Board Member
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Sean Hinton
Sean Hinton, Board Member
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Tom Brookes
Tom Brookes, Board Member
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Our history as the Finance for Biodiversity Initiative (F4B)

The Finance for Biodiversity Initiative (F4B) was established in 2019 with support from the MAVA Foundation. F4B’s core mission was to increase the materiality of biodiversity in financial decision-making and so better align global finance with nature conservation and restoration. NatureFinance has built and expanded on F4B’s high-impact work and partnerships.

“Building a nature positive future is not just about natural resources; it’s also about financial sustainability. If we can demonstrate the economic benefits to humanity of a well-functioning ecosystem, we’re much more likely to maintain that ecosystem functionally into the future.”

Andre Hoffmann President, MAVA Foundation

Timeline

2019

The Finance for Biodiversity Initiative is established in October 2019 as an initiative to increase the materiality of biodiversity in financial decision-making, and so better align global finance with nature conservation and restoration.

2020

In response to the COVID 19 pandemic, F4B publishes the first “Greenness of Stimulus Index” that evaluates the ecological sustainability of COVID stimulus programs.

2021

F4B’s released work pointing to how the global financial system can and must be reshaped to internalise nature and climate costs, and finance the next generation of food production systems that can deliver affordable nutrition for all.

2022

Launch of F4B initiative, the Taskforce on Nature Market, with an initial white paper covering challenges and opportunities associated with ‘nature markets’, including voluntary carbon markets, nature credits and soft commodities.

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