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Below are the six top selected NbS projects pitched at the I4N Marketplace in Morges on Nov 29th. Besides, you will find fourteen selected NbS projects that were presented at the I4N Market in Buonas on 5 April 2023.

"Solutions Buonas 2023"

Catalyse Energy  

Catalyse Energy adopts a biogas-based Circular Economy that results in a net gain to biodiversity and ecosystem integrity. The Biogas plant capacity amounts to collection of an annual 60 000 t of organic waste.
Total investment needed:  3’500’000 EUR.

Fabas  

Fabas gives producers what they really need: A NATIVE PROTEIN!

Total investment needed: 1'000'000 CHF

Force For Nature

Force For Nature increase the management effectiveness of protected areas by providing scalable online training, resources and recognition to wildlife Rangers globally.
Total investment needed:  560'000 CHF 

Inverto

Inverto is involved in Scalable Mangrove Restoration and intends to quantify their impact on biodiversity with solid metrics using techniques such as e-DNA analysis.
Total investment needed: 400'000 CHF

Investconservation

InvestConservation focuses on protecting tropical forests in biodiversity hotspots areas by making them investable, leveraging smart technology and blockchain tokens.
Total investment needed: 3’000’000 CHF

Life sanctuaries / Vallée éternelle

Wild Keepers participates in the conservation of biodiversity through reintroduction and species preservation projects. For example we’re introduced the original black bees and are now producing non profit super high quality "sanctuary honey".
Total investment needed:  2’000’000 CHF

MyCPAC  

MyCPAC solves this problem of usage & incorrect disposal of non-sustainable packaging material by developing, producing and marketing a truly sustainable, mycelium-based packaging alternative in order to (in the long term: fully) substitute fossil-fused packaging material such as EPS.
Total investment needed:  800’000 CHF

Primal Soles

Primal soles contributes to the preservation of natural biodiversity and the social ecosystem by creating fully circular shoe soles from our planet.

Total investment needed: 1’250’000 EUR

Real Naturation

Re Naturation participates in profitably renaturation Earth’s degraded land for the benefit of humanity. 

Total investment needed:  4’900’000 CHF

Scrimber 

Scrimber participates to reduce pollution by creating a new building material that captures and stores CO2 long-term in buildings.

Total investment needed: 2’000’000 CHF

Solapave 

Solapave contributes to the protection of natural environments by creating a long-term infrastructure for important waste, such as EV charging.

Total investment needed:  8’700’000 CHF.

Stream Ocean

Stream Ocean improves universal methods to properly monitor the biodiversity of marine protected areas, using artificial intelligence technology.

Total investment needed:  800’000 US 

Vatorex 

Vatorex helps to solves the problem of dying honey bee colonies due to the parasitic Varroa mite, through field studies and monitoring services.

Total investment needed: 2'500'000 EUR

Vlinder  

Vlinder aims at ecosystem restoration by planting millions of native mangrove trees while creating new habitats for biodiversity, landscape restoration, and increasing wildlife biodiversity.
Total investment needed: 10'000'000 $

"Solutions Morges 2022"

BeeHelpful

PrimalBee® Hive: the best nature based solution to manage honeybee colonies and make them thrive. Patented PrimalBee® Hive is the first hive engineered with the real needs of the bees at the very core.
More Bees On The Trees!

Total investment needed: 3'000'000 CHF

Brainforest Global

Bio.Bridge: A bio-economy venture franchising model designed to connect global markets to local forestholders in order to create climate and nature positive economies, utilizing radically transparent value chains and high value Non-Timber Forest Products for the cosmetic and nutraceutical industries.

Total investment needed: 1'700'000 CHF

HubTropolis

HubTropolis is a new type of city designed collaboratively from first principles to achieve a sustainable. The very concept of HubTropolis aims to balance the ecosystem, society and economy.
Total investment needed:  1'000'000 CHF

Macun

"When carbon sequestration is needed, the best technology is nature itself."

Total investment needed: 2'000'000 CHF

NaturaYuva

“NaturaYuva – Future of high quality, sustainable and traceable natural ingredients while empowering small holder farming communities to adopt organic regenerative agriculture.” 

Total investment needed: 3'500'000 CHF

I4N PROVIDES SUPPORT TO FINANCE AND ACCELERATE NBS CREATING NATURE-POSITIVE IMPACT IN THE FOLLOWING FOCUS AREAS:

SCREENING CRITERIA

(8 criteria of the IUCN Global Standard™ for NbS)

Based on the IUCN Global Standard™ for Nature-based Solutions, all incoming projects are asked to complete a questionnaire to pitch at the I4N Marketplace.
The IUCN Global Standard™ allows for a holistic view of project performance by analyzing the fulfillment of nature, climate, economic, and social goals together. The IUCN Global Standard™ is a strong foundation of the Convention for Biological Diversity and is one of the best tool currently available to financers to assess the relevance and actual impacts of green investments.

MORE ABOUT THE SCREENING CRITERIA

CRITERION #1: NBS EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS SOCIETAL CHALLENGES

CRITERION #2: DESIGN OF NBS IS INFORMED BY SCALE

CRITERION #3: NBS RESULT IN A NET GAIN TO BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM INTEGRITY

CRITERION #4: NBS ARE ECONOMICALLY VIABLE

CRITERION #5: NBS ARE BASED ON INCLUSIVE, TRANSPARENT AND EMPOWERING GOVERNANCE PROCESSES

CRITERION #6: NBS EQUITABLY BALANCE TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN ACHIEVEMENT OF THEIR PRIMARY GOAL(S) AND THE CONTINUED PROVISION OF MULTIPLE BENEFITS

CRITERION #7: NBS ARE MANAGED ADAPTIVELY, BASED ON EVIDENCE

CRITERION #8: NBS ARE SUSTAINABLE AND MAINSTREAMED WITHIN AN APPROPRIATE JURISDICTIONAL CONTEXT

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