2024 Community Impact Report: A year of nature tech acceleration
One year on from our official rebrand as the ‘Nature Tech Collective’, we are proud to share our 2024 Community Impact Report.
The report provides a comprehensive look back at our key drivers of impact for the last 12 months, and explores the strategic value that community membership brings to the broader ecosystem. We also explore key areas for improvement and our high-level vision for 2025.
How we got here
One year ago, we announced the Nature Tech Collective (NTC) as a non-profit member alliance, accelerator and intelligence unit focused on advancing the uptake of nature-based solutions to integrate the protection of nature into all sectors of society.
Our journey didn’t begin here. First, the Nature Tech Collective was the MRV Collective, an organically built community focused on measurement, reporting, and verification in the nature space. The evolution to Nature Tech Collective came on the heels of some crucial realizations:
The gap between innovation and implementation is about more than product innovation, it’s also about understanding, trust, and translation.
We can't close the nature finance gap without solving the nature data gap.
We can't solve either of the above without bringing the right people together in the right ways.
Today, nature tech is a rapidly evolving and complex sector, and there is a need for a bridge builder that connects inventors with those that need the solutions, and a translator that turns challenges into actionable opportunities.
The Nature Tech Collective strives to be this lynchpin. Through the power of effective collaboration, we can better size and tackle the challenges confronting the adoption of nature tech, define priorities, develop frameworks, build connections - overcoming many of the obstacles preventing the nature positive transition.
12 months that mattered
The Nature Tech Collective today is composed of 189 representatives from the public and private sector, academics and field-level science, project developers and frontline communities, as well as inventors that build and develop nature tech solutions.
“In 2024, our members monitored over 43 million hectares - an area the size of California - deployed more than 1,700+ biodiversity monitoring devices, and raised $95M in funding. ”
In our first full year as the Nature Tech Collective, we established strong baseline metrics across key areas of priority for us: member amplification, industry presence, and opportunity creation.
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47 external speaking Opportunities
100+ members featured in sector reports
42 online events
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4 Sector Intelligence assets published
15 showings at major industry gatherings
13 In-person events
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42 discounts & funding Opportunities
108 direct introductions
65 COP entry badges for members
Looking forward
In 2024, we focused heavily on understanding our role within our newly expanded scope as the Nature Tech Collective. We worked hard to test out different initiatives and programs designed to drive value to our community membership, and generate impact for the public good.
Our inaugural impact report is an honest review of these efforts, an assessment of our results, and a perspective on what worked well, and what could be improved.
The report also demarcates some key areas of focus for 2025:
Community & connection: Doubling down on our growing slack-based community engagement and exploring new ways to deliver value to our members through education and match-making.
Publishing & platforming: Ramping up our content publishing & spotlighting the incredible work of our members by creating more opportunities to platform them.
Strategic deliverables: Launching the inaugural Nature Tech Summit, updating and improving the Nature Tech Taxonomy, and exploring collaborations to build out AI tools to drive education and adoption of nature tech solutions.
Read our 2024 Community Impact Report
We invite you to read through our efforts, and to celebrate the incredible impact our growing community of nature tech pioneers is already delivering to the world - if this message resonates with you, reach out.
