🌱 This week in NatureTech #23

🐘 Long Read (5-Min Read)

Africa is a hotbed of NatureTech innovation.

Our guest contributor, Marine Goldenberg, sat down with Désirée Petterson from Satgana to deep dive into African NatureTech innovation.

🔎 What is the situation for NatureTech in Africa today?

🌳 Who are the hottest start-ups and investors in the space?

💼 What are the challenges and opportunities for start-ups?

💬 Snippets for your lift conversations

💼 Big business:

• The lush river valleys of El Zaino y La Arenosa in western Panama, could soon be submerged by a massive man-made reservoir designed to ensure the viability of the Panama Canal (Read more)

• 35 investors representing $6.5 trillion in assets have engaged with seven seafood companies on supply-chain traceability and overfishing (Read more)

• Aviva to integrate nature into transition plan (Read more)

🏦 Finance:

• Ecuador has started work on a deal to swap more of its existing debt and free up money for conservation efforts in the Amazon rainforest (Read more)

• Restoring the world's degraded land will require $2.6 trillion in investment by the end of the decade (Read more)

• Bolivia aims to sell $5 billion worth of carbon offset credits to end deforestation within its borders by the end of the decade (Read more)

• The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has issued a $451 mln so-called green kangaroo bond in Australia to help close the biodiversity funding gap (Read more)

• Goldman Sachs joins up with MIT for biodiversity project (Read more)

🌴 Market & Projects

• Alvéole launched a biodiversity platform for commercial real estate leveraging their honeybee hive network and satellite data. (Read more)

• Iceberg Data Lab (IDL) has launched a dataset assessing the "true impact" of 120 countries on climate change and biodiversity impact  (Read more)

📖 Research:

• Women are custodians of nature - and key to improving the integrity of carbon markets (Read more)

📝 Policy:

• Negotiators for EU institutions agreed a compromise on a ban on the import of commodities linked to deforestation, which will be delayed by a year but without changes proposed by EU lawmakers. (Read more)

• The Norwegian government has agreed to hold off issuing deep sea mining exploration licences for the next two years as part of a wider national budget compromise (Read more)

🎣 Deals

• 🇨🇦 Cascadia Seaweed raised a $4M Series A for their seaweed-based feed & fertilizers. 

• 🇫🇷 Darwin raised a $1.6M pre-seed to accelerate their nature data analysis

• 🇳🇱 Kilter raised a $9.5 million Series A round for precision weeding

• 🇪🇸 B’ZEOS raised Seed funding for seaweed-based packaging 

Want to share an upcoming fundraise?

💭 Little Bytes

📊Read: A single gram of healthy soil can contain over 10 billion bacteria this is more microorganisms than there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy

📺️Watch: 5 reasons why we undervalue oysters 🦪

💬 Listen: Three pathways to better recognize the expertise of Global South researchers

📆 Events

• 🇺🇸 HackSummit New York Climate x Deep Tech, 12 Dec (Attend)

💼 Jobs

Start-up:

• Multiple roles, Planet A Foods, Germany (Apply)

• Multiple Roles, Ulysses, USA (Apply)

• Software Engineer, Cecil, Australia (Apply)

• Backend Engineer, Lanbanking Group, Germany (Apply)

• Sales Development Representative, Arbonics, Remote (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)