About Us
Why?
The breakdown of the natural ecosystem has a devastating effect on communities across the world.
Livelihoods are lost triggering migration, often creating a vicious cycle of ecological collapse, poverty, and social instability.
But when local communities are empowered with the right resources they can regenerate natural ecosystems, secure sustainable livelihoods, and strengthen food and water security.
This restoration addresses the drivers of migration, reduces poverty, improves health and nutrition, and creates ripple effects in education, gender equality, and economic opportunity.
It all starts with water. Restoring water cycles is the first step to balancing nature. Enabling climate resilience, and building a more equitable and secure future for all.
Our Process
The Landscape Water Carbon Trust allocates funding to local communities across the world, working with partners with proven success in building long term resilience for people and nature.
What
The LWCT provides unrestricted grants, technical support, and access to resources, to local communities, enabling them to implement well vetted, high impact, proven landscape restoration, which benefit the local people and the global climate.
To Who
Projects are selected based on catchment-scale impact, through a process of design with the local communities, ensuring long-term resilience and lasting impact.
How
Through a centralised platform with standardised metrics, integrating monitoring technology, LWCT ensures measurable impact amplifying the macro- scale impact of local actions.
Our Core Principles
Focusing on water, soil and trees, we work with local communities to restore their natural environment to enable food security and develop sustainable livelihoods.
Locally led, globally scalable
Communities are at the centre of implementation, benefiting directly from restored ecosystems. Local action leading to global climate impact
Climate Resilience & Social Impact
Projects are designed for long-term environmental stability, food security, and self reliance
Community Engagement
We combine proven ecological restoration methods with local traditional knowledge, supported by a strong community engagement programme
Whole Catchment Approach
Rather than fragmented efforts, funding is directed to comprehensive watershed-scale intervention
Our Impact
Long term environmental, social and economic impact with a global reach
Water
Availability
– Water held
– Ground water recharge
– Well levels
Environmental Restoration
– Forest cover
– Increase in biodiversity
– Soil heath
– Carbon sequestration
Agricultural Productivity
– Increase in arable land
– Improved crop yields
– Crop diversification
Economic
Prosperity
– Income enhancement
Community
Well Being
– Enhanced food security
– Women led livelihood projects
– School attendance
– Reduction in vitamin and mineral deficiencies
Migration
Reduction
– Population levels