Alexander Koch Email & Phone Number

Barcelona, Ct, Es

Natplus helps businesses assess their nature impacts, comply with biodiversity regulation & move toward nature-positive practices with ease. www.natplus.io

Natural Strategies is a team of consultants enabling nature-positive and climate friendly business transformations. Blending advisory and digital tools, our services are designed to guide businesses, financial institutions and international organizations on their journey towards sustainable practices.Visit our website: www.naturalstrategies.comRecent projects include:- Building cutting-edge digital tool to help businesses with CSRD and EUDR compliance.- In collaboration with UNDP, helping private businesses engage in nature-related action.- Supporting a leading private sector impact investor to assess the sustainability of its global investment portfolio and identify high-impact climate and nature projects.- Guiding a German media and events company to assess its footprint, set sustainability targets and become more climate-friendly.- Working with private sector client to create corporate equitable benefit sharing strategy to channel nature-positive investment to ecosystems & communities globally.- Designing private sector biodiversity investment fund that received two international awards (ICFA 2021 and CFA 2021)- Assessing sustainable land use business opportunities in 8 countries for Conservation International.- Helping coordinate UNDP’s GCF readiness portfolio in 16 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.- Helping WWF mobilize private sector partners to conserve the Congo Basin. - Working with the Crop Trust to mobilize nature-based finance for crop biodiversity globally. - Developing strategy for partnership with private businesses on sustainable commodity production in 8 countries for the European Forest Institute.- Working with UNDP to reform subsidies that impact biodiversity in Botswana & South Africa. - Designing UNEP’s proposal for global commercial investment facility for forest restoration. - Mobilizing private & public partnerships for nature friendly commodity production in Latin America and Africa for the Landscape Finance Lab.

Was promoted to Programme Management Officer. Coordinated programme in nine countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia to access GCF funding for forest conservation, agriculture & energy projects through the UNEP/UNDP/WRI GCF Readiness Programme (www.gcfreadinessprogramme.org) - Raised USD 20 million in donor funding for readiness support.- Developed climate project assessment and prioritization tool, approved by Governments of two partner countries - Coordinated GCF Funding Proposal in Benin in forest and agriculture landscapes, approved by the GCF in February 2019 (SAP005)

Coordinated programme in nine countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia to access GCF funding for forest conservation, agriculture & energy projects through the UNEP/UNDP/WRI GCF Readiness Programme (www.gcfreadinessprogramme.org)

Paris, France

- Co-managed the ‘Carbon Finance for Agriculture, Silviculture, Conservation and Action against Deforestation (‘CASCADe’) programme in seven African countries. The Programme gave technical assistance to 25 nature-positive projects in the areas of reforestation, bio-energy, agroforestry and REDD+ projects in Africa to access carbon finance.- Acted as the focal point person for REDD+ for one of UNEP’s global divisions.- Co-authored UN-REDD publication on translating lessons from forest carbon projects into national REDD+ implementation.- Jointly supervised and coordinated UNEP publication 'Feed-in Tariffs as a Policy Instrument for Promoting Renewable Energies and Green Economies in Developing Countries'.

Barcelona, Spain

Managed clean energy and improved cook stoves projects under the Clean Development Mechanism and in the voluntary carbon markets in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Nairobi, Kenya

Supported UNEP’s work on environmental policy and regulation in developing countries. Co-developed largest global online database on environmental policy and regulation for UNEP and FAO.

Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

Designed an energy efficient cook stoves project in Kenyan primary schools.

University Master'S Degree, Environmental Management And Restoration

Activities and Societies: Received University of Barcelona’s Special Award for Master’s thesis on conservation of great apes habitat.

University Extension Diploma (Distance), Wildlife And Natural Areas Management

First German State Examination In Law / 'Diplom-Jurist'