Masterclass: Reversing Climate Change by Protecting Earth’s Hidden Biodiversity Infrastructure
Investment in the Invisible
Participants will explore how to:
- Protect underground biodiversity hotspots as climate-critical infrastructure - by co-designing with symbiotic organisms
- Channel finance toward mycorrhizae fungal research, monitoring, restoration, and carbon market integration
- Build a new planetary strategy that places multi species symbiotic integration as fundamental to climate stability and carbon permanence in soil organic material
A Planetary Vision
This masterclass reveals how belowground fungal richness underpins carbon storage, plant productivity, and biodiversity aboveground. By protecting and restoring these underground ecosystems, we can unlock a massive, untapped lever for reversing climate change and stabilizing Earth’s climate.
Mycorrhizal fungi are “ecosystem engineers that sustain plant life and help regulate Earth’s biogeochemical cycles.” : they’re not just supporting actors, but essential drivers of ecosystem function.
A Global Turning Point
Join this masterclass to discover how the Planetary Carbon and Fungi Vision can reframe climate solutions—placing fungi at the center of conservation, finance, and carbon capture for the decades ahead.
“When we look at trees, what we see above the ground is essentially just fruits of the soils, the actual organism is the fungal symbiosis below the ground”
The Missing Foundation
While global climate policy measures forests, plants, and animals, it overlooks the invisible networks that sustain them: fungi. A groundbreaking Nature study mapping 25,000 soils and 2.8 billion DNA sequences shows that mycorrhizal fungi are ecosystem engineers regulating Earth’s carbon cycles. Yet less than 10% of fungal biodiversity hotspots are protected today. Otherwise, we’re protecting the roof of the house while ignoring its foundation.
Why Fungi Are Foundational
- No fungi, no forest, no carbon.
- Fungi regulate carbon storage directly in soils.
- They enable plant growth and carbon capture.
- They sustain biodiversity aboveground.
