Land Life Company B.V.

Company profile

Land Life was founded in 2013 and aims to help restore the world’s 2 billion hectares of degraded land.

Its experienced management team leads a uniquely qualified and diverse team of 80+ experts in forestry, data science, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), sales & marketing, finance, legal and HR based in Amsterdam, Spain, Australia and Iceland. The team consists of over 15 different nationalities and the company has an equal share of men and women working with them at all levels in the organization.

Land Life offers the opportunity to invest in nature through technology-driven reforestation that positively impacts climate, biodiversity and local communities. The company applies data and technology, such as drones, artificial intelligence and monitoring applications, to every step of the planting process: from the design of a reforestation project, to the planting and the monitoring of the projects afterwards.

Land Life has people on the ground actually planting trees as well as developing and applying our proprietary technology. Land Life’s projects revitalize important ecosystems, improve biodiversity and create social and economic benefits to local communities. The company believes that bringing nature back is the only way forward.

Land Life is a social enterprise and ‘for-profit’ as it believes the private sector is a powerful mechanism to serve both social and economic needs. As seen in other industries like solar, wind and EVs, Land Life believes that the private sector will prove to be valuable to achieve high quality, fast growth at competitive cost in nature restoration.

Business Model

Governments worldwide are putting heavy caps on greenhouse gas emissions, meaning that companies will have to reconfigure their operations to reduce emissions as much as possible. Those that cannot be eliminated will have to be accounted for through the purchase of carbon credits. A condition that Land Life takes advantage of:

There are billions of hectars of degraded land worldwide. This is land that has suffered from e.g. wildfires, overgrazing and unsustainable agricultural production and will not be able to restore itself without human intervention.

To restore these hectars within our lifetime, Land Life has set up a unique business model by using technology and science to create high quality reforestation projects that revitalize important ecosystems, improve biodiversity and create social and economic benefits to local communities:

1. Land Life identifies degraded land trough their network of local partnership managers. This can be either publicly owned land or land held privately.
2. Using proprietary technology, the company tests whether the land is suitable for reforestation and assess its carbon sequestration potential.
3. An agreement is signed with the landowner, that Land Life can undertake the restoration of the land with no cost for the landowner. In return the landowner gives away their right to sell CO2 credits and other enviromental benefits that will result form restoring the land. The ownership of the forest/trees remain with the land owners who commit to maintain the the forest for 40+ years.
4. Land Life designs the planting for the optimum biodiversity outcome and carbon sequestration.
5. Local teams work with experienced partners, suppliers and local planting crews to execute the reforestation projects.
6. Land Life sells the right to claim any future CO2 capture and other environmental benefits of the project to their customers. Although the CO2 will be captured over the lifetime of the trees, customers pay up-front for the total amount of CO2 expected to be sequestered by the project.
7. At intervals of 5 years, the customers can commission a verification of the actual CO2 capture. Following an independent audit, the carbon registry then issues formal carbon credits to the customer.

Market

Land Life is active on the 2 billion USD Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) as the company's focus is to restore degraded land and to remove nature based carbon at the same time.

All projects are generally funded by customers who have strong climate action agendas and make a deliberate choice to invest in nature. As there is a high demand for their projects, Land Life only works with companies that have an interest a strong sustainability agenda and have solid plans to reduce their carbon footprint. Therefore, in order to avoid any form of greeenwashing, Land Life applies strict selection criteria to the customers it works with. Current and past customers  include Achmea, Aker BP, DHL Parcel Benelux, Zalando, ABN AMRO Clearing and Bosch.

Land Life is a pioneer in the market but over the last years competitors have entered the market with comparable models. Land Life’s proprietary technology in combination with in house scientific knowledge is unique though. It is challenging for new market entrants to enter due to technological innovations, specific forestry expertise and on the ground operational teams that are required to set up a good reforestation project.

Use of funds

Until recently Land Life's customers paid for the projects before the company developed them. Customers are now expecting the company to fund the early development costs though. As a result, the company can no longer operate with a negative working capital. The bond will allow Land Life to bridge the time between the early development and sale of the projects during the financial year and fund some inventory carried forward to the next.

In case the campaign raises only the minimum of 2 million Euros, all of the funds (except the 4% funding costs) will be used for the early development of projects.

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UPDATE on 19.10.2023: Updated documents

We would like to inform you that we have made a change to the following documents on October 19, 2023:

• Key Investment Information Sheet (KIIS) – paragraph D (h)
• Bond Conditions – article 6.5

The following sentence has been added to both documents:
"From six months before the end of the term, early redemption by the project owner is permitted. In that case, the project owner will only owe a one-time administration fee of €1,000 to Custodian OPC or the third party to be designated by it."

Should you have any questions regarding the adjustments, please contact our customer service.

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