The archive / 2014–2018

A record of trying to make restoration financeable.

Working documents, lightly framed and honestly labelled. The argument on this site rests on these attempts.

How to read this archive

Most documents were written for a client, partner or regulator. Several were explicitly not validated or approved by the institutions named in them. They are here because they show the direction of travel: funds, platforms, verification, and incentives.

2018

FLR-token Green Paper

A design for a token economy that pays every actor for verified restoration outcomes.

Working draft toward a Swiss regulator submission

tokenisationBonn Challengemechanism design
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2016

AWD monitoring on a decentralised network

Smart sensors, farmer-owned data and third-party verification for climate finance in rice paddies.

CCAFS / CGIAR

IoTMRVVietnam
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2016

Vietnam Low Carbon Rice Fund

Outcome-based finance for alternate wetting and drying adoption at 500,000 hectares.

CCAFS / Vietnam NDC investment plan

outcome financeNDCrice
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2016

Sierra Leone Western Peninsula logframe

A short technical draft reframing land-use stabilisation around finance and collaboration.

EBD Global Optimum / UNDP-GEF

GEFlogframeSierra Leone
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2016

Agricultural Transformation: GCF funding proposal

A financing mechanism, farmer data platform and logistics infrastructure for Rwanda.

FONERWA, Kigali

GCFRwandatechnology
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2016

Financing mechanisms for Forest Landscape Restoration

Eight recommendations for an FLR fund, GCF strategy, technology platform and investment-readiness accelerator.

IUCN & ICRAF

FLR fundGCFaccelerator
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2015

Towards a Rwanda Restoration Fund

The starting hypothesis: a layered fund as risk cushion for private investors, paired with a national PPP.

IUCN & ICRAF

layered fundPPPRwanda
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2015

The Virgin Earth Challenge — WeForest pre-entry

Reforestation as a gigatonne greenhouse-gas removal system, with country delivery and smallholder monitoring.

WeForest

GGRWeForestBonn Challenge
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2017

Climate-smart lending platform on Stellar

A two-line fragment showing the direction of travel toward programmable, outcome-linked lending.

Personal note

lendingStellar
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