Stichting Commonland

Mission & Goals

Commonland’s mission is to create an investable large-scale landscape restoration industry. Based on sustainable business models and delivering 4 Returns: return of inspiration, return of natural capital, return of social capital and return of financial capital.   Commonland aims to restore large-scale degraded ecosystems worldwide, by actively involving farmers, conservationists, investors, companies and entrepreneurs in landscape restoration. Commonland is developing a growing number of international projects in Europe and the world. Commonland foundation is an entrepreneurial, impact-driven, not-for-profit organization with an international team of business developers and experts in the fields of landscape restoration, finance and communication. It is an IUCN member, and working in close collaboration with many scientific institutions and networks including the IUCN Commission Ecosystem Management. Commonland is based in Amsterdam.