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Inverto: Scalable Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Restoration

Inverto focuses on scalable nature-based solutions to restore coastal wetlands. By connecting restoration projects with corporate funding, they empower local communities and enhance biodiversity. Their innovative use of drone technology and data-driven approaches ensures effective restoration efforts that contribute to sustainability goals.

coastal restoration

What Inverto Is All About

Inverto is all about scalable nature-based solutions that tackle the loss of coastal wetlands and beyond. This innovative project brings together years of experience in drone engineering and complex drone operations, working closely with local communities in some of the most challenging environments across all continents. Inverto focuses on building tech4impact — but more importantly, tech2sustain. Their mission? To rewild coastlines at scale, with a sharp focus on biodiversity and social impact.

The Main Benefit: Connecting Restoration to Corporate Funding

Inverto Earth connects coastal restoration efforts directly to corporate funding through high-integrity data. Corporates can subscribe to the restoration of specific 3×3 metre parcels of coastland via a subscription-based model, receiving high-resolution, credible data on climate, biodiversity, and social impacts. Here are some key figures and facts:

  • Subscription model links corporates to tangible restoration projects
  • Local restoration groups get funding and tools to collect essential data
  • Remote sensing and drones combined with customized restoration payloads guide ecological restoration
  • Carbon and biodiversity data measure restoration effectiveness
  • Unlocks permanent restoration of 1% of the world’s coastal ecosystems
  • ROI for corporates includes enhanced brand image and employee engagement

Automated Restoration Solutions

Inverto offers a range of hardware and software solutions designed to automate restoration, reforestation, and afforestation efforts. Their tech supports:

  • Mangrove planting
  • Mangrove soil sampling
  • Mangrove site selection and monitoring
  • Seedball and seedpod release

These automated processes help scale up environmentally friendly operations, making restoration more efficient and impactful.

Automated Insect Release Systems

Beyond plants, Inverto has developed systems for the automatic release of beneficial insects, which play a crucial role in ecosystem health. Their technology supports releasing:

  • Fruit flies with active cooling
  • Mosquitoes with active cooling
  • Ladybugs
  • Tsetse flies

This innovative approach helps maintain balanced ecosystems and supports natural pest control methods.

Drone Engineering & Consulting

Inverto’s expertise extends to drone engineering and consulting, specializing in Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations, heavy-lift drone missions, and navigating regulations across various countries. Their custom solutions are optimized for drones, enabling clients to scale up environmentally friendly operations in restoration and agriculture. This combination of tech and know-how is what sets Inverto apart.

Project Impact and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • SDG 13: Climate Action – by restoring coastal wetlands and measuring carbon impact
  • SDG 14: Life Below Water – through rewilding coastlines and enhancing marine biodiversity
  • SDG 15: Life on Land – via reforestation and afforestation efforts
  • SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals – collaborating with local communities and partners worldwide
  • SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth – supporting local restoration groups with funding and tools

How Inverto Supports Long-Term Sustainability

Inverto’s model ensures long-term project sustainability by empowering local restoration groups with the funding and tools needed to collect high-quality data. This data fits seamlessly within corporate sustainability plans, creating a win-win scenario. Corporates maintain customer and employee engagement, especially among the increasingly eco-anxious workforce, while local communities gain the resources to keep restoration efforts thriving. Using remote sensing and drones paired with customized restoration payloads, Inverto Earth directs ecological restoration and measures its effectiveness with precise carbon and biodiversity data. It’s a smart, data-driven approach to making a real difference.

Arnaud Michel, founder of Keys for Tomorrow
About the curator

Arnaud Michel is the founder and curator of Keys for Tomorrow. In 2014, his master’s thesis on community currencies and sustainable development won the Prix Recherche at Belgium’s Prix de l’Économie Sociale; the research was later published as Ecological Economics (Elsevier, 2015). He curates this directory to the same standard, cross-checking every project against established certification bodies and directories — including B Corp, 1% for the Planet, and Solar Impulse Foundation — alongside direct research into each project’s own record. Connect on LinkedIn.

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