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The Business Case for Collective Landscape Action is a
USAID-supported public-private initiative implemented by the Rainforest Alliance in consortium with CDP, Clarmondial and Conservation International.
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Business Case is an applied research initiative to develop and test a suite of replicable and scalable tools and creates a model to align finance, market and policy incentives to deliver the desired landscape-level impacts of each stakeholder.
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For this purpose the Business Case is testing its intervention in four landscapes located in Peru (Lamas, San Martin), Ecuador (Sucumbíos and Orellana Provinces), Colombia (Caquetá), Indonesia (Sintang, West Kalimantan) plus five jurisdictions in Brazil (Pará, Mato Grosso, Amapá, Acre and Maranhao).
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OUR PARTNERS

It is the world’s premier international development agency and a catalytic actor driving development results. USAID’s work demonstrates American generosity and promotes a path to recipient self-reliance and resilience. 

Rainforest Alliance works in 62 countries around the world to protect forests, improve the livelihoods of farmers and forest communities, promote their human rights, and help them mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. 

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure system for companies, cities, states and regions.

It pioneered using capital markets and corporate procurement to motivate companies to disclose their environmental impacts. 

Established in Switzerland in 2010, Clarmondial AG has an established track record in creating practical, profitable and creative solutions for social and environmental businesses and their funders.

Through science, partnerships and fieldwork, Conservation International is driving innovation and investments in nature-based solutions to the climate crisis, supporting protections for critical habitats, and fostering economic development. 

THE MEANING OF A LANDSCAPE

A landscape is a system of complex relationships between people and nature in a territory. Ecological, historical, economic, and sociocultural factors, as well as productive activities are the main drivers that influence the landscape. 

 

LANDSCAPE AND
JURISDICTIONAL APPROACHES

A landscape approach 

A landscape approach is a place-based management approach that involves stakeholders collaborating in a landscape to advance shared sustainability goals and build resilience. It aims to reconcile and optimize social, economic and environmental objectives across many economic sectors and land uses. Such approaches are implemented through land-use plans, policies, initiatives, long-term investments and other interventions. 

Source: Meeting nature goals: Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches – CDP

Jurisdictional approaches 

Jurisdictional approaches differ in that they are aimed at advancing shared sustainability goals in landscapes defined by administrative boundaries of subnational governments. Also, this approach is implemented with a high level of government involvement compared to landscape approaches. 

Source: Meeting nature goals: Landscape and Jurisdictional Approaches – CDP

Strategic approaches

Four local landscape partnerships have reduced GHG emissions, deforestation and biodiversity threats while increasing restoration and boosting livelihoods through implementing collective landscape action.

At least US$30M in new financing is mobilized in service of priority actions defined in local landscape plans to reduce deforestation, conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate change and advance inclusive development.

Innovative scaling mechanisms based on landscape-scale performance metrics and other project-supported tools are operational and positioned to unlock orders-of-magnitude more long-term investment, sourcing and other incentives from companies, investors and subnational governments.

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