The Nature Tech Directory + AI Assistant: From Noise to Clarity
Built for and with the sector. Growing with the community.
Nature tech is where innovation meets ecology, harnessing technology to measure, protect, and restore the natural systems we all depend on. From biodiversity monitoring and carbon verification to water management and habitat restoration, these tools are essential to achieving a nature-positive transition.
Yet the landscape remains fragmented. Projects spend months searching for the right partners. Proven solutions stay siloed. Investors lack visibility into what’s ready to scale. Meanwhile, the loss of nature only accelerates.
About the tools
Click to get a first look at the Nature Tech Directory. Explore how nature tech solutions are mapped by region, solution type, and stage of implementation.
Nature Tech Collective and Conservation International are partnering to make sense of the complex and rapidly evolving landscape of nature tech with two complementary initiatives: the Nature Tech Directory, led by the Nature Tech Collective, which curates and continually updates key information on nature tech solutions and key players across the sector; and the AI Assistant, led by Conservation International in partnership with Earth Genome, which builds on databases like the Directory to provide a guided, conversational assistant that helps practitioners, funders, and innovators identify context-specific tools more efficiently.
While the Directory and the AI Agent are separate efforts with distinct leadership, they are designed to work hand in hand. Together, they embody the shared CI–NTC vision, rooted in our joint biodiversity sector mapping work, to reduce fragmentation, build a common language, and provide the shared infrastructure the community needs to accelerate nature-positive action at scale.
The Nature Tech Directory
An open, searchable platform that brings together information on nature technology solutions worldwide. Curated and regularly updated by the Nature Tech Collective, the Directory helps practitioners, policymakers, and investors quickly see who is working on what, where, and at what stage, making solutions more visible, comparable, and accessible.
The AI Assistant
In parallel, Conservation International is partnering with Earth Genome to prototype an AI assistant designed to help users query this evolving nature tech landscape using natural-language prompts. Conservation International is looking to expand the agent’s capabilities through coalition-building to address knowledge gaps, fundraising to scale the prototype, and stakeholder-informed design to improve outputs.
The Challenge We Are Solving
The potential of nature tech is immense, but three persistent barriers hold the sector back:
Discovery: With more than 1,000 emerging technologies and tools, and no standardized guidance, the decision-making process can be overwhelming. Fragmented data, siloed platforms, and a proliferation of MRV products make it hard to see the full picture.
Terminology: Conservationists, companies, and investors often use different terms and frameworks, making alignment and collaboration difficult.
Scaling: Despite growing demand, a $700B annual finance gap for nature persists. Proven approaches often struggle to expand, and nature tech innovations are no exception, they face the same barriers in reaching scale and securing investment.
Addressing these challenges requires not only visibility into the full spectrum of nature tech, but also shared frameworks that help decision-makers cut through complexity and connect innovations to real-world needs.
Our Joint Efforts
The Nature Tech Directory and the AI Assistant mark the continuation of a broader collaboration between Conservation International and Nature Tech Collective. While each initiative has its own leadership and focus, both reflect our commitment to a common goal: enabling the nature tech sector to grow with greater clarity, coordination, and impact.
By bringing these tools into the hands of practitioners, investors, and communities, we aim to:
Make innovative solutions easier to discover and apply.
Foster alignment across conservation, technology, and finance.
Unlock the resources needed to scale what works for people, nature, and climate.
This debut is just the first step. Together with our partners, we are building the foundations of an open, interoperable ecosystem that will continue to evolve in response to the sector’s needs.
Get involved
The Nature Tech Directory and AI Assistant are community-built public goods. Their value grows with your input and engagement.
Preview the Directory (Prototype)
Contribute: Add your organisation, tool, or project to strengthen the ecosystem
Register Interest: Join as a beta tester, collaborator, or coalition partner to help shape the Directory and the AI Assistant.
