Meet the Coalition
NATURE RESTORATION IS ESSENTIAL to meeting the world’s climate goals, but nature-based projects are complex and challenging to get right. Projects that integrate new technology and research to better measure outcomes, equitably engage Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and balance carbon sequestration benefits with other environmental co-benefits can come with significant cost.
As a result, the nature-based carbon removal market has been hampered by a perceived lack of high-quality restoration projects and uncertainty around willingness to pay, keeping investors on the sidelines and eroding public trust in nature-based credits’ potential for climate and social impact. Coalition members commit to addressing these challenges by signing long-term offtake agreements for projects that incorporate conservative assumptions on climate impact, draw on the best available science and practice, and equitably involve and compensate Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
Through a strong demand signal and a willingness to pay the real cost that it takes to develop these high-quality projects, Coalition members aim to partner with like-minded investors, NGOs, market standard setters, and project developers to clarify the bar for what “good” restoration looks like and enable more of these projects to happen.
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Through Symbiosis, members will commit to offtake through 2030 to spur the development of new projects, bringing to market the volume that corporates need to meet climate goals.
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Symbiosis wil enable corporates to ban together around a single, trusted quality standard that pull from the latest data and science and build on existing market standards.
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Symbiosis will facilitate a joint RFP on behalf of its members, simplifying the procurement process for high-quality, nature-based removals and sending a strong market signal to project developers
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Symbiosis will educate project developers and investors to build a pipeline of projects and transparently share lessons learned.
Coalition Members:
Coalition team-
Founder and Executive Director
Julia has worked across the non-profit, public, and private sectors to advance positive impact at the intersection of climate change, nature, and finance. Her experience includes The Nature Conservancy, the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, Blue Forest, New Forests, and NCX. Julia's most recent role was as Director of the Climate and Nature Finance Collaborative at ZOMALAB. Julia co-founded and co-hosts the podcast focused on natural climate solutions, “Solving Climate, Naturally.”
Julia has her MBA and MS in Environment and Resources with a focus on land use from Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) and a BA in environmental studies with a focus on biodiversity conservation from Yale University.
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Origination and Partnerships Director
Natalie leads project sourcing, RFP operations, and commercial offtake negotiations, as well as investor partnerships at Symbiosis Coalition.
Prior to Symbiosis, she worked for Pachama, a technology-focused reforestation company, where she focused on project origination, project financing, and structuring corporate carbon offtakes, with a focus on North and South America. She previously worked in private equity and infrastructure investing at Brown Brothers Harriman and GI Partners, and led the Energy & Environment team of the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) Impact Fund. She holds an MBA and a BS in Environmental Engineering from Stanford.
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Technical Lead
Paulo is a conservation scientist and nature-based solutions expert with over 15 years of experience in applied research and policy linking biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and climate change. He has worked across the non-profit, private, and public sectors, including at Mexico's National Commission of Protected Areas (CONANP) - where he coordinated the country's first National Strategy for Climate Change and Protected Areas - as Conservation Director of Sky Island Alliance, at NCX, and Carbon Direct.
Paulo holds a masters in Environmental Management from the Yale School of the Environment, and a PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Cruz. He has published academic research in diverse fields including restoration ecology, global change biology, and land-use policy. He is also the author of "Mexico: un Estado sin Tierra", a book that reviews Mexico's land tenure history and its effects on conservation policy.
Paulo is a member of the Assisted Natural Regeneration Alliance, and his favorite tree is probably the Tropical Ash (Fraxinus uhdei).