Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda join the Global Rewilding Alliance from Mexico to discuss their diversified, largely self-sustaining funding model: Carbono Biodiverso.

Across the rewilding movement, philanthropic funding remains essential — but rarely sufficient on its own. To help Alliance Partners build more resilient, diversified funding models, the Funding to Scale Rewilding series will spotlight replicable financing models developed by fellow practitioners, platforms that connect rewilding organisations to investors and other funding sources, and expert insight into how funders think and what makes a project fundable.

The webinar will dive into the learning curve that comes with innovating a local solution where the private sector, government and civil society work together. Since 1991, GESG has involved smallholders in carbon. Today, the system includes high biodiversity areas and a unique transparent transaction software with OpenForests, to provide a high integrity product called Carbono Biodiverso. Currently over 900 individuals covering over 40 thousand hectares are benefiting from this financing mechanism.

Speakers include:

• Martha “Pati” Ruiz Corzo, Founder and Director, Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda (GESG)
• Ricardo Torres Hernández, Deputy Secretary of Sustainable Development in Querétaro State
• Alexander Watson, CEO, OpenForests
• David Ross, GESG consultant in Carbono Biodiverso
• Chaired by the Global Rewilding Alliance

Find more details and reserve your spot here.

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