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Belém, Brazil, November 15, 2025 – The COP Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes (AARL) today announced a surge in investments to advance production, conservation, and restoration, advancing integrated solutions to deliver resilient agrifood systems. More than 40 organizations reported $9B+ in committed investment, covering more than 210 million hectares of land, reaching 12 million farmers across 90+ commodities and 110+ countries by 2030, highlighting significant progress since the initiative was launched at COP28.

AARL – launched by the COP28 Presidency, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), with support from the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions – brings together farmers, agribusinesses, financiers, and leading non-state actors to aggregate, accelerate, and amplify collective action and investments to overcome barriers to scaling regenerative landscape approaches.

Driving Scale and Impact

Since the initiative’s launch at COP28, participation has significantly grown, expanding from 25 to 40+ organizations, including commodity traders, consumer goods companies, retailers, agtech providers, financial institutions, and other non-state actor partners.

While the total land under regenerative transition reflects a stricter definition and revised expectations (resulting in a decrease since 2024), the maturity and quality of programs have advanced. The share of initiatives at-scale (10,000 hectares) has grown from 38% to 52%, and the proportion of programs with three or more partners has expanded from 16% to 40%. Investment has accelerated far beyond land growth, increasing more than fourfold from $2.2B in 2023 to $9B in 2025. Drawing from the AARL data, the Guidebook for Landscape Investments collates 12 case studies showcasing replicable success factors for landscape regeneration, highlighting the impact that agrifood companies can achieve when working collaboratively, putting in place holistic financial and technical support mechanisms for producers.

However, data collection and reporting remain areas for improvement. Currently, 67% of responding participants are measuring carbon impacts in at least some programs, but only 38% are reporting on carbon outcomes. Reporting on soil health, biodiversity, water, and farmer livelihoods lags further behind, underscoring the challenges in identifying robust yet cost-effective monitoring, reporting and verification systems and the need for greater transparency.

We see firsthand how business leadership, when coupled with inclusive multi-stakeholder collaboration, is indispensable to unlocking the full potential of regenerative landscapes.

– Dan Ioschpe – Climate High-Level Champion – COP30, Brazil

This work shows show how businesses can (and must) work shoulder-to-shoulder with local partners, governments, investors, and farmers to create regenerative landscapes that deliver measurable climate, nature, and social benefits. This is not a solo journey; it is collective action in its fullest sense.

– Nigar Arpadarai – Climate High-Level Champion – COP29, Azerbaijan

The 9B+ dollars committed to regenerating agri-food landscapes by businesses in the AARL demonstrate the scale of the transition underway in agriculture. The next phase of this initiative will showcase the results these $9B+ can deliver on the ground, and how this investment can de-risk the transition for farmers.

– Diane Holdorf, Executive Vice President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

The power of AARL is not only in the $9B its members are committing to regenerative landscapes, but also its unique model of place-based collaboration that can deliver impact at scale. We’re seeing evidence of this in the Landscape Accelerator Brazil.

– Shalini Unnikrishnan, Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Place-Based Acceleration in Brazil

At COP29, AARL marked a pivotal step in moving from ambition to action with the launch of its first landscape accelerator: the Landscape Accelerator Brazil (LAB).

Launched in partnership with Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, the LAB focuses on the Cerrado biome and Pará state (Amazon). Research from the LAB shows that restoring pastures and advancing regenerative practices across 50M+ hectares represents a $93B investment opportunity, with an average 19% internal rate of return for 610,000 farmers. This commercially bankable opportunity requires de-risking through blended finance approaches.

A year in, the LAB has made significant progress to unleash this opportunity:

• Blended finance: Quantifying the business case and financing stack needed to scale regenerative landscapes in Brazil
• Harmonized measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV): Developing context-specific and streamlined metrics and MRV implementation guidance
• Aligned policy: Identifying four key policy priorities to unlock private sector investment

In 2026, the LAB aims to evolve into a co-investment platform focused on specific landscapes, with the ambition of mobilizing $5 billion by 2030 – as outlined in its Action Plan.

Looking Ahead

In 2024, AARL was identified as a mechanism supporting the delivery of the UNCCD COP16 Riyadh Action Agenda. Additionally, AARL will partner with the Resilient Agriculture Investment for net-Zero land degradation (RAIZ) accelerator, which the COP30 Presidency will announce on 19^th November.

Going forward, the AARL will replicate the accelerator blueprint in new geographies – starting with India in 2026. AARLwelcomes collaborators across agricultural landscapes in this global effort, including governments, businesses, financiers, producers, civil society, research organizations and other non-state actors.