Sponsors & Partners

Alana Foundation is an independent philanthropic organization founded in 2012 in the United States. The Foundation supports initiatives in the areas of environment, inclusive education and health scientific research through grants and co-funding partnerships. It also engages with networks and global movements in those areas.

SCB serves as the premier global membership society of professionals, students, and organizations who dedicate their work towards furthering the science and practice of biodiversity conservation. Our membership has expertise across all conservation fields - from biology and social sciences to marketing. SCB unites this community to share best practices to solve conservation challenges.  

Esri, the global market leader in geographic information systems (GIS), offers the most powerful mapping and spatial analytics technology available. Since 1969, Esri has helped customers use The Science of Where to unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Today, Esri software is deployed in more than 350,000 organizations including the world’s largest cities, most national governments, 75% of the Fortune 500, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri engineers the most advanced solutions for digital transformation, IoT, and location analytics to create maps that run the world.

The Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force is a subnational collaboration of 38 states and provinces working to protect tropical forests, reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and promote realistic pathways to forest-maintaining rural development through direct partnerships with subnational governments, civil society, the private sector, indigenous peoples, and local communities.

The Rainforest Kids Challenge is a competition Powered by Design for Change to educate children globally about the importance of the standing rainforest, encourage them to be part of a community that cares about rainforests, and use the simple FIDS framework to take action to restore them for a better world.

1t.org is the World Economic Forum’s Trillion Tree Platform, serving a global movement to conserve, restore and grow 1 trillion trees by 2030, in support of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. We drive change by mobilizing the private sector, accelerating restoration in key regions, and empowering a new generation of ecopreneurs. 1t.org was launched in January 2020, at the 50th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. 

The Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions (CNCS) at the National University of Singapore is a focal point for world-class research, thought leadership and education on nature-based solutions for climate mitigation and adaptation in the Asia-Pacific Region. The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers to produce credible, salient, and legitimate science that informs nature-based climate strategies and actions and build capacity and empower leadership in the public, private and people sectors to respond to climate challenges and opportunities.