Turning possibility into practice has shaped everything we do. Much of our focus has been on activating
new revenue streams and attracting investment to deal with large and often seemingly unsolvable
environmental challenges.
We are grateful for our advisory clients and the investors and collaborators in our impact ventures
returning and new – for trusting us to design and deploy approaches that value ecosystem services, co
design interventions for freshwater, ocean, and land-based ecosystems, and grounded approaches to
adaptation and resilience, risk mitigation, and regeneration.
EnviroStrat has just welcomed another cohort of interns to our Auckland office, and our Comms Lead caught up with Liam, Georgia and Alicia to find out what brought to them to us and to hear about their summer plans. Liam Arthur-Hunt (20) is originally from Devonport in Auckland, where he met EnviroStrat CEO Dr Nigel Bradly while playing Wednesday night cricket. The pair got chatting about Liam’s study of economics at the University of Otago, and Nigel shared that he did his Phd in economics. Liam is heading to Vienna, Austria, for an exchange in February but will spend his summer…
As the final hours close on COP30 in Belem, Brazil, tensions and temperatures (literally) have been rising. The second week of discussions in ‘the gateway to the Amazon’ saw parties stuck in a deadlock over fossil fuels, a fire spread across the blue zone, an Indigenous blockade, and arguments over the future of deforestation. This COP has been filled with symbolism. The conference ended in the early hours of Saturday morning with a contentious final deal that, for many, fell short of expectations. Participants have expressed frustration at COP President André Corrêa do Lago and how the meetings have been…
Natasha Jacobs gives us the Week One COP update It’s been a big week for Belem, host city for COP30. Delegations from 194 countries, activists, and over 4000 members of the media have descended on the ‘capital of the Amazon’ to discuss global action on climate change. The US made a historic no-show for the first time in COP history. New Zealand has a total of 79 registered attendees, Australia 494 and the UK 210. The big-ticket item, and a central point of discussion this week has been the Baku to Belem roadmap, a paper that aims to outline how climate finance could be scaled up…
The New Zealand Government is expected to release a set of high-level principles for a voluntary biodiversity credit market during National Fieldays. Associate Environment Minister Hon Andrew Hoggard told Parliament last month that this work would be tested via pilot projects, and he discussed the potential for farmers’ creating benefits for biodiversity and for their businesses. “I see as a particularly beneficial project that will help out our farmers quite considerably and other landowners who have native bush on their farms or land and, basically, give them a carrot, as opposed to the stick approach, of "Here is an incentive…
I would say to young people worried about the state of the ocean and climate, don’t be too doom and gloom about it. I know it’s really hard, and I know it can be really sad and scary sometimes – but when you start to meet people that are working in this space, you realise just how many people actually care.
Written by EnviroStrat's Natasha Jacobs. Q – What is COP? COP stands for Conference of the Parties. It’s a global summit where nature takes centre stage. COP16, the 16th iteration, has been taking place over the last two weeks, in Cali, Colombia. Not to be confused with the Climate Change COP taking place in Azerbaijan next month, COP16 is the Biodiversity COP, and aims to drive international co-operation to tackle the global biodiversity crisis. Q – What are we learning this year? Highly anticipated this year, is country progress on COP15’s Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Framework, a landmark global agreement, established in 2022, aimed at halting…
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) members adopted a resolution at the 2016 World Conservation Congress and members’ assembly which, for the first time, defined the use of nature for simultaneous benefits to biodiversity and human well-being. According to the resolution, nature-based solutions are defined as “actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits”. The crucial role of nature-based solutions in addressing the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss was highlighted in a COP27 session organised by the IUCN. At…
The news that we’re partnering with Urchinomics to form Urchinomics Aotearoa is a significant milestone for impact investment project development leader EnviroStrat, and exemplifies what’s possible when you bring together global and local expertise and capital. We’ve successfully collaborated with Urchinomics, the leading global urchin (kina) ranching and kelp restoration company over the past 18 months Kinanomics pilot. Following the success of the pilot, Urchinomics Aotearoa will scale its operations to tackle the pressing ecological and climate challenges posed by overpopulated kina barrens that have decimated kelp forest ecosystems throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand operations are expected to kickstart…
