Venkat Iyer

Environmentalist 🌿 Athlete 🎾 Board Member @thejtcc

[Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) @GlobalLF]

“We don’t tell communities what to do, we finance what is already flourishing.” @WorldResources' Venkat Iyer

#LuxFinance4Nature #ThinkLandscape

[Dr. Bernadette Arakwiye @Dr_Arakwiye]

#TerraFund is a learning by doing project. It helps us identify opportunities for growing and replicating restoration in #AFR100 and to highlight the amazing work led by restoration champions ⁦@iyern_man⁩ ⁦@restoreforward⁩ ⁦@Mamadou_AFR100⁩

[WRI Restoration @restoreforward]

NEW: We don't yet know how much of Africa's land people are restoring, but we're getting closer to an answer 🌱

Here are the 9⃣ key monitoring challenges + 4⃣ criteria that a robust, diverse monitoring system will need.

https://t.co/T7mivmuJsN #AFR100

[Venkat Iyer @iyern_man]

Latest insight piece on the critical need for community-driven restoration 🌿

[WRI Restoration @restoreforward]

NEW: How can we fund the 1000s of entrepreneurs restoring Africa's land?

1) Robust Business Training Programs
2) Favorable Public Policies
3) Intermediaries to Bundle Funding
4) Corporate Finance at a Massive Scale
5) Accurate Monitoring Systems

https://t.co/QS6ojMiiof #AFR100

[The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance @climatefinlab]

Join us tomorrow for the second webinar with @IFAD in the #ClimateFinance for #Sustainable Agriculture series as industry experts deliberate on the lessons from our two instruments that allow investments in regenerative practices by smallholder #farmers.
https://t.co/pAPuiujW8r

[Venkat Iyer @iyern_man]

Thanks @HENRYTATAW for the piece on the economics behind ecosystem restoration! 🌿📊

[Henry Tataw Ekambi @HENRYTATAW]

Invest $1 And Get $30 in Land Restoration Businesses, Experts Say https://t.co/UN32mTHsAN

@ClimateTracking
@GlobalLF
@UNFCCC
@UNEP
@MingueLionel
@anchunda_benly
@ReginaSondoM
@ReginaLeke

[Dr. Juliette Biao Koudenoukpo @Kjulybiao]

Youth &UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: This is our last chance to set things right. Let's get active, not anxious. Let's be bold, not timid. This World Environment Day, join #GenerationRestoration @YIL_Initiative @africa_want @UNEP @UNEP_Africa

[WRI Restoration @restoreforward]

Local people must be at the center of restoring landscapes.

New research from @khamoshrewa, @shelarkarishma, @WW_Anderson on equitable and inclusive landscape restoration planning, feat. the case of India's Sidhi district 👉 https://t.co/OYYLkxjHJ8 #GenerationRestoration

[Sean DeWitt @dewittsean]

In solidarity with First Nations and Native people everywhere. This is heartbreaking. Why isn't this a massive international news story? https://t.co/1ecZalD1VE

[Dr Susan Chomba @suechomba]

A brilliant session on getting the finance structures right for restoration at the @Afr100_Official annual partnership mtng moderated by @iyern_man the restore train has left the station! @restoreforward @TabiJoda1 @auggwi @MathaiWanjira @WW_Anderson @dewittsean @Mamadou_AFR100

[WRI Restoration @restoreforward]

Inform. Enable. Invest.

That's how we can make the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration + #GenerationRestoration a success!

Here's how @WorldResources is doing our part: https://t.co/WAP4YQcuPx @GlobalLF @TimChristo @UNCCD