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Cecil exists to help teams restore nature. Sharing thoughts on nature as an asset class, environmental markets & our growing nature-tech category is part of that journey.

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Storytelling 101 for Product Managers

Cecil’s Jo Tay shares why storytelling can help teams uncover solutions to save our natural world.

October 28, 2022
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Jo Tay
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
The Carbon Forty-Niners

In 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall was building a sawmill near the Sacramento River in eastern USA when he noticed traces of a shiny metal in the mill’s water wheel. And so begun the California Gold Rush. In the 7 years that followed, over 300,000 people from all over the world, known as “forty-niners” (a reference to 1849, the peak year for the Rush), flocked to the region to get in on the act.

October 6, 2022
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Harry Hely-Hutchinson
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
How to scale your natural asset portfolio with unified data

Knowledge is power, and today’s knowledge is data. But to unlock data’s true power in scaling nature restoration, teams must first figure out how to collect, process, and distribute it. We share some of the data management solutions that can help you scale your nature restoration business.

September 23, 2022
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Team Cecil
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
Closing the funding gap: how nature is financing our future

As more NBS projects are finding appropriate levels of scale, private investors are beginning to take notice and allocate capital towards to these projects. In this post, Cecil Intern Marcus Rehbock explores the historic roadblocks for private investment, rising capital inflows into nature and nature as an emerging asset class.

September 9, 2022
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Marcus Rehbock
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
Lost in spreadsheets: 3 data management challenges faced by teams restoring nature

Managing data to develop quality nature-based projects is no easy feat. Facing a ‘death by a thousand spreadsheets’, teams are cobbling together ad-hoc workarounds using excel, file storage systems and workflow management software to take control of their data. In this blog post, we explore why inefficient data management is holding back quality nature-based project portfolios from scale.

August 31, 2022
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Team Cecil
Cecil Stories
Cecil Stories
How we design software to restore nature

Cecil’s design process sits at the heart of our business. In this blog post, we share our human-centred, collaborative approach to problem solving and how it’s fuelling a mission to help teams restore nature.

August 10, 2022
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Sean Batchelor
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
3 ways to manage nature-based project stakeholders

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Nature-based projects work in much the same way. In this post, we explore the importance of effective NBS stakeholder management and why teams restoring nature are using technology to streamline this process.

July 29, 2022
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Team Cecil
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Closing the funding gap: how nature is financing our future

As more NBS projects are finding appropriate levels of scale, private investors are beginning to take notice and allocate capital towards to these projects. In this post, Cecil Intern Marcus Rehbock explores the historic roadblocks for private investment, rising capital inflows into nature and nature as an emerging asset class.

September 9, 2022
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Marcus Rehbock
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
There has never been a better time to restore nature

The shift towards nature-positive investments, policies and practices are creating compelling new opportunities for the teams restoring nature.

June 2, 2022
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Team Cecil
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
The dawn of nature-based reporting

Central Banks and major financial regulators are putting pressure on global corporations to disclose climate and nature-related risks. We explore this new era of corporate risk disclosure and the exciting opportunities it will provide for teams restoring nature.

April 20, 2022
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Team Cecil
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
8 challenges faced by teams developing carbon projects

Over the last 12 months, we have worked alongside carbon project developers to better understand what stands in the way of their success - here are some of the most common obstacles that we’ve heard along the way.

April 6, 2022
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Team Cecil
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
Blue Carbon: leveraging the power of our coastlines

As the global economy learns more about its impact and dependency on nature, the search for innovative natural climate solutions intensifies. We explore Blue Carbon's role in the climate fight today and why the world’s investors are starting to take notice.

March 21, 2022
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Team Cecil
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
The Natural Capital opportunity

The most important challenge of our time awaits in restoring and expanding natural capital - but what is natural capital?

February 21, 2022
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Team Cecil
Restoring Nature
Restoring Nature
Introducing Michael Molitor

We’re excited to announce that Michael Molitor will be joining Cecil as a Senior Science Advisor. In this article, Michael shares with us his journey to Cecil - from contributing to the first GHG protocol in the late 90s, to advising global corporate leaders on climate solutions.

August 10, 2021
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Michael Molitor
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Cecil Stories

Storytelling 101 for Product Managers

Cecil’s Jo Tay shares why storytelling can help teams uncover solutions to save our natural world.

October 28, 2022
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Jo Tay
Cecil Stories
Cecil Stories
Behind the scenes at our Q1 Retreat

Eezu Tan, Product Manager at Cecil reflects on our first retreat together as a founding team.

May 18, 2022
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Eezu Tan
Cecil Stories
Cecil Stories
Building software to create a new climate category

We are building in public to share our learnings on the topic of 0 to 1 product building in climate tech. By chronicling our successes and failures we hope to inspire other teams to join in and build solutions for our climate and nature crises.

May 4, 2022
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Alex Logan
Cecil Stories
Cecil Stories
1,000+ NBS projects on the platform

It's been 4 months since we launched our natural capital platform with 100 projects. We've since grown that number by 10x and are proud to have over 1,000+ projects managed on Cecil.

November 2, 2021
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Alex Logan
Cecil Stories
Cecil Stories
Platform launch. 100+ NBS projects

We're delighted to announce the soft launch of the Cecil platform! 🚀 After 3.5 months of exploratory interviews, rapid prototypes and late night calls with carbon project developers from Madagascar to Mackay, we've released the first version of Cecil with our customers!

June 14, 2021
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Alex Logan
Cecil Stories
Cecil Stories
Our shared vision

Teams need to know what change they are going to make in this world. 5 timezones, 2 workshops and 1 giant cup of coffee later, we refined a purpose and set of core values that we all believe in.

April 28, 2021
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Alex Logan
Cecil Stories
Cecil Stories
Product building - we'll do it live!

The team has been hard at work, laying strong foundations for the future of this product-centric company. We've kicked off our build phase in true 2021 style, with a diverse, global & fully remote engineering and design team.

March 15, 2021
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Alex Logan
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