Biodiversity and climate solutions

Acclimate Partners works at the intersection of climate change, biodiversity conservation and community. We bring together diverse stakeholders to co-create, deliver and fund impactful projects.

  • Uniting the right partners, under a clear legal and strategic framework, for projects structured with climate mitigation, biodiversity conservation and community elements, to secure investment and / or funding and ensure positive impact.

  • Structuring projects to attract multiple sources of investment and/or funding and introducing the right stakeholders for financial success.

  • Structuring climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation projects with the additional benefit of place based economic diversification.

  • As a baseline to projects or part of an ongoing conservation program, we work with credible partners that can capture and monitor the required biodiversity data to inform decisions.

  • Restoring ecosystems, along with experts in the relevant field, through habitat restoration and remediation and wildlife translocation, reintroduction and rewilding programs.

Case Study: Towards net zero for Australian agriculture, fisheries and forestry

In the context of a global net zero transition, agriculture, fisheries and forestry is considered a difficult to abate sector. AgriFutures Australia engaged Acclimate Partners to assess the pathways available to the reduce the sector’s dependency on mineral diesel fuel – its primary source of energy and contributor to the sector’s emissions. In developing recommendations, we engaged broadly across stakeholders spanning producers, investors, policy makers, fuel suppliers, alternative energy companies, global equipment and machinery manufacturers, and research organisations. 

Acclimate Partners produced the report, The Diesel Transition: Petroleum diesel alternatives for the Australian agriculture, fisheries and forestry sector, which recommended practical steps for a sector-scale transition. We were subsequently engaged to lead the development of the national diesel transition plan, advancing our research further and building practical place-based transition approaches to suit Australia’s diverse regional areas, farming systems, and community aspirations.

Read our report here.

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Case study: Balancing environmental and economic interests in one of the world’s largest natural capital assets

The Lake Eyre Basin is of conservation significance on a world scale. It is one of the last water catchments around the globe to flow without interruption. Threats to the Basin and its waterways are from land-uses, pest plants and animals, and development.

The Australian Government engaged Alluvium Consulting and Acclimate Partners to develop the Lake Eyre Basin (LEB) strategic plan and governance arrangements. The plan establishes cross-border coordination for policy and program implementation, business investment, and the sustainability of the natural asset.

Engaging with key stakeholders, Acclimate Partners structured the strategy and conducted a review to align and integrate objectives of all Commonwealth and State Government strategies applicable to the environment and social context of the basin. We established governance for management of the natural asset in the context of a whole of government reform that impacted inter-governmental arrangements affecting how cross-border disputes could be managed.

The work drew on Acclimate Partners’ Placelink® methodology to enable greater harmonisation of public sector resources focused on the Lake Eyre Basin, maximising the impact of multiple programs and initiatives across the Basin jurisdictions and local government areas.

Managing intergovernmental agreement across four States and Territories required a robust approach to governance. The governance design developed by Acclimate Partners included options and a recommended model that fit the machinery of government changes following the COAG reforms and Conran Review.

As a result, communities and governments committed to collaborative, cross-border management of the LEB in response to threats to its waterways from certain land-uses, pest plants and animals, and development.

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