In Southeast Asia, our vision is to halt deforestation while scaling regenerative business and investment opportunities for resilient growth. Focusing on Indonesia, we pursue three strategies:
- Aligning incentives for smallholders and incumbent business to shift toward regenerative models
- Developing large-scale, regenerative landscapes that attract investment and demonstrate the business case for restoring and protecting forests
- Building an enabling financial ecosystem to unlock capital for forest friendly enterprises delivering nature and biodiversity benefits.
Under the first strategy, we work with major deforestation-linked sectors – such as agriculture (palm oil), and logging – to drive more sustainable, inclusive models by creating stronger incentives and improving productivity.
Under the second strategy, we see that regenerative models exist but they are still small scale and the risk perception is high. Therefore, we will focus on scaling large-scale proven regenerative models to demonstrate their cost competitiveness and potential for replication. We will also promote regenerative commodities grown in agroforestry systems, non-timber forest products, and payments for ecosystem services (PES).
The third strategy recognises that, although capital flows for nature, climate, and regenerative models are increasing, investments are slow and fragmented due to operational inefficiencies and risk perception. Our approach is to partner with catalytic financiers and fund managers to demonstrate successful pipeline building and capital mobilisation for scalable, forest-friendly investment vehicles across various funding tranches.
