Action Theme:
Scale Regenerative Landscapes and Bio-based Innovation
Action Theme at a Glance
Purpose: To help members use regenerative land systems and bio-based innovation to protect supply, strengthen value chains and create future growth.
Target Group: Executives, CSOs, sustainability leaders, and procurement and innovation teams.
Timeline: 2027-2028
Member Maturity: Pioneers and scalers (scalers particularly in Deliverable 1).
Deliverables/Outputs: Align Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV), Project Finance Tools for Regenerative Landscapes and Bio-based Innovation, and Collective Action Frameworks.
Purpose:
To help members use regenerative land systems and bio-based innovation to protect supply, strengthen value chains and create future growth.
How:
This Action Theme will help members understand the rapidly shifting environment for land-based sourcing and bio-based product innovation. It will enable them to work together to unlock financing mechanisms for nature-based solutions. And it will help map climate and nature risks and drive action and investments in regenerative landscapes to enhance supply chain resilience and grow bio-based products and value chains. This theme is especially relevant for executives, CSOs, sustainability leaders, and procurement and innovation teams working to connect land and nature-based environmental action with business performance.
Companies that produce, source from or depend on land- and nature-based systems face growing pressure from climate risk, degraded landscapes, local community engagement, changing regulations, reporting demands, vulnerable commodities, deforestation-free requirements in forest-risk value chains, competition for land, agri-food system shifts and rapid innovation. Left unaddressed, those pressures can affect supply, cost, product choices and long-term competitiveness. The Scale Regenerative Landscapes and Bio-based Innovation Action Theme helps members respond to these threats with clearer data, stronger business cases and practical actions within and across value chains.
The Action Theme Scale Regenerative Landscapes and Bio-based Innovation advances aligned measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) standards and data and gives members a shared evidence base that catalyzes investment and action. It will also co-develop practical guides, case studies and templates that make landscape and bioeconomy projects easier to fund. And it will deliver collective action frameworks that help companies act together at the landscape level.
Together, these areas of focus will help members capture the business opportunities connected to sourcing adaptability, bio-based product innovation, investment mobilization, policy coherence and long-term competitiveness.
Learn more about these planned 2027 deliverables in the September release:

Deliverable 1: Align Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV)
A landscape and value-chain performance dashboard connecting sustainability outcomes with commercial value. It focuses on: priority crops, materials and landscapes; ROI, risk reduction and cost implications; metrics aligned to existing standards. This deliverable draws on relevant work from the Realize the Value of Sustainability Action Theme (Enabling Credible Transition Plans deliverable), as well as the climate accounting-related standards in the Scale Climate Solutions at Pace Action Theme (Strengthen and Harmonize Market-Based Climate Accounting Solutions deliverable). It will also work closely with Policy & Insights.

Deliverable 2: Project Finance Tools for Regenerative Landscapes and Bio-based Innovation
Blended and public-private finance models, risk-sharing instruments and applied investment cases that turn pilot projects into investable opportunities, including for agriculture and nature-based solutions.

Deliverable 3: Collective Action Frameworks
Testing where Pioneer members want coalition-based action on specific materials, commodities or landscapes. These actions will be incubated in the theme and delivered through Solution Accelerators - Landscape Action Brazil (LAB) and India Landscape Accelerator (ILA) - if funded.
What is unique about this offer?
WBCSD is the strongest cross-sector business organization working across agriculture, food, forestry and landscapes to advance regenerative agriculture and bio-based solutions. We bring a strong history of collaboration with governments, farmer and community organizations, leading NGOs and international organizations. We convene suppliers, customers and industry peers so that they can co-create action and accelerate investment in regenerative landscapes. They can deliver nature-based solutions and demonstrate the business case for landscape investment. They can also stay ahead of the latest agriculture, bio-innovation and land policy trends, which creates a performance advantage for their own companies and benefits broader regenerative land systems and the bioeconomy sector.
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