We have accelerated the pace of climate change so radically that nature cannot keep up. Biodiversity loss is increasing exponentially and biological carbon sequestration is at risk. Traditional tools to mitigate climate impacts on biodiversity loss are effective but insufficient.  It is possible to support ecological resilience in the face of warming and help reduce the magnitude of that warming - through biotechnologies, which hold potentially profound capacity to increase climate resilience and  reduce biodiversity loss. 

Advanced biological sciences can accelerate climate resilience and conservation goals. 

Lab to Land harnesses advanced biological sciences in service of the most pressing ecological threats - from sequencing to engineering. These tools can reduce catastrophic fire risk; remediate contamination in essential watersheds; rapidly respond  to novel pathogens and novel competition; enhance carbon retention despite drought and climate migration; replace harmful chemicals used to manage wildlands and coastal ecologies, and more. 

This won’t happen without help. 

The bioeconomy will not deliver on it’s climate promise organically. Despite the inevitability of these technologies’ emergence, there is no clear path toward their implementation for practical nature-based climate solutions. Regulation has failed to catch up with the pace and scale of warming. Bioethical and governance structures are missing. Communities and land stewards have not been effectively engaged. And basic research needs to be dramatically accelerated. By 2030, the global bioeconomy may reach $3.4T. Today, less than 2% of biotech funding has any clear tie to climate resilience. Lab to Land is shifting that balance. 

Living-systems need a trusted champion between Lab and Land.