January 09, 2025 | Read Online

This week in NatureTech #25

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In today’s edition:

🌊 Our new events database

🌲 A $100Mn + Funding deal

💼 A whole new suite of NatureTech jobs

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The ClimateTech events database

We’re convinced that to get NatureTech even more on the map in 2025…

… we need more NatureTech folk attending and speaking at ClimateTech events.

However, keeping on top of the latest ClimateTech events can be overwhelming.

Finding the most exciting NatureTech events can be even trickier.

That's why we compiled our database of 200+ events for founders, investors and corporates to attend this year.

📊 The full database contains:
1. Key themes
2. Event dates and locations
3. Links to attend and speak

We’ll continue to add to this list and highlight upcoming events in our weekly newsletter. Stay tuned!

🔎 Will you be attending any events? Did we miss any? Drop us a response and let us know!

Access 200+ Events here

💬 Snippets for your lift conversations

💼 Big business:

Discover Heathrow Airports Nature Positive Plan, part of their sustainability strategy to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss while boosting local ecosystems. (Read more)
The Forest Positive Coalition - which includes major consumer goods firms from McDonald's and Sainsbury's to IKEA and Mondelez - unveils its latest progress report for 2024 (Read more)
The UN released a global guide for insurers on setting priority actions for nature (Read more)

🏦 Finance:

Support for biodiversity-related resolutions by asset managers has decreased significantly, despite growing awareness of biodiversity loss, as found by Global Witness. (Read more)
Schroders Capital plans to focus more on natural capital, biodiversity, and regenerative agriculture as investment themes in 2025. (Read more)
Ecuador has completed its second debt-for-nature swap, this time unlocking $460 million to protect and manage the forests and wetlands of its Amazon rainforest (Read more)

🌴 Tech

$7 Bluetooth Beacons, Linked to Apple's FindMy Network, Could Revolutionize Urban Animal Research (Read more)
NatureTech startup Cecil is partnering with Google to provide Earth Engine datasets through Cecil's nature data platform. (Read more)

📖 Research:

The potential of the bioeconomy in addressing deforestation in the Amazon. (Read more)
Strips of native plants on as little as 10% of farmland can reduce soil erosion by up to 95%. (Read more)
Scientists surprised to find so many animals unknown to science in Alto Mayo (Read more)

📝 Policy:

Italian companies are preparing to comply with a requirement to take out natural disaster insurance from next April (Read more)
How Incheon in South Korea is building an ecological hub for a nature-positive future (Read more)
Brazil has launched a plan to restore degraded pastures and convert them into productive systems, involving forests and biofuels. (Read more)

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🎣 Deals

🇺🇸 Inari Agriculture, raised $144M in funding, for their advanced breeding technologies to create nature-positive seeds for a more sustainable global food system.
🇮🇱 Fermata, raised $10M in Series A funding for their computer vision agriculture solutions
🇨🇦 Cascadia Seaweed raised a $4M Series A for their seaweed-based feed & fertilizers.
🇮🇳 Moonrider, raised $2.2m in seed funding for their electric tractor tech
🇬🇧 🇷🇸 Bpacks raised €1M for their eco-friendly packaging that extends shelf life and reduces food waste

💭 Little Bytes

📊Read: Nine new species of carnivorous land snails have been discovered in the forests of Papua New Guinea, a biodiversity (Read more)

📺️Watch: Brazil court suspends law cutting tax breaks for firms with deforestation soy commitment (Read more)

💬 Research: A widely cited claim that 80% of biodiversity is in Indigenous territories lacks support, potentially harming its intended cause. Read more

💼 Jobs

Start-up:

Multiple roles, Planet A Foods, Germany (Apply)
Multiple Roles, Ulysses, USA (Apply)
Software Engineer, Cecil, Australia (Apply)
Backend Engineer, Landbanking Group, Germany (Apply)
Sales Development Representative, Arbonics, Remote (Apply)
Multiple roles, Space Intelligence, Edinburgh (Apply)

Corporate:

Product Manager - Climate, Nature and Sustainability Regulations, Bloomberg, London (Apply)
Climate, Nature and Social Risk Modelling Vice President, JP Morgan, London (Apply)
Nature Based Solutions Specialist, Mott MacDonald, London (Apply)
Climate Consultant (Biodiversity & Nature), Ecoact, London, (Apply)
Nature-Based Solutions, Subject Matter Expert, Ramboll, USA, (Apply)