Meet the finalists for the RestorLife Awards 2026, business category
Selected from 109 applications worldwide, these businesses are putting nature at the heart of their operations.
By Aleenah M
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In Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, jaguars are moving through restored corridors again. A bird once lost from the region has returned. Behind that recovery are 143 local landowners who planted trees and reconnected forest fragments, supported by HP through WWF’s Forests Forward program. This is what business leadership for nature can look like: not a project sitting at the edge of a company, but nature built into how it buys, invests and operates.
The RestorLife Awards, delivered in partnership with the UNCCD G20 Global Land Initiative, celebrate organisations helping bring ecosystems back to life.
This year’s six business finalists were chosen from 109 applications worldwide. Each demonstrated proven impact, long-term vision, community involvement and responsible stewardship.
Their models are very different. Some work through supply chains. Others restore land, direct investment or help projects reach finance. What connects them is a decision to make nature part of how the business works.
Every finalist has shared their work on Restor, allowing you to explore the places, projects, and information behind it.
Meet the six finalists chosen from 109 businesses that applied:
Yayra Glover Ltd. built Ghana's first certified organic cocoa value chain and works with more than 5,000 smallholder farmers today. Explore their work on Restor
Puro Fairtrade Coffee Sales of Puro Fairtrade Cacao help protect 3 million hectares of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon. In partnership with Nuevo Horizonte and the Awajún people, Puro sources its cacao from this Indigenous-managed territory and helps fund local nature guards who protect the forest. Explore their work on Restor
Tetra Pak restoring 7,000 hectares of Brazil's Atlantic Forest with local landowners, and has 320,000 native seedlings in the ground so far. Explore their work on Restor
HP supporting forest conservation and restoration beyond its own supply chain. Through its partnership with WWF, it has helped bring more than 600,000 acres of threatened forest across six countries under restoration, improved management or protection, while working with local landowners and producers to rebuild wildlife corridors and strengthen sustainable livelihoods. Explore their work on Restor
Pictet runs USD 65 billion in environmental funds, and back in 2014 became the first asset manager to screen its investments against planetary boundaries. Explore their work on Restor
Gordian Knot Strategies helps restoration projects find the funding they deserve, turning $9.3 million into more than $108 million of private capital for forests. Explore their work on Restor
Proven impact, long-term vision, community involvement and responsible stewardship. All six show up on all four, in six very different ways.
The winner will be invited to COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Each of these six has shown that their model works on their own land, which is the hard part. The winner will be announced and recognized at COP17 in August 2026.
If your business is somewhere on that path, however early and however imperfect, put your work on Restor. We'd love to read about it next year.
