Creatura Ltd: Company Profile

Championing the diversity of life, mind and society within a healthy biosphere

Creatura Ltd was founded in 2009 by Julian Caldecott, to work on protecting and restoring the living world. It inherits the global experience and professional contacts that Julian has built over decades of ecological research, conservation and environmental consultancy. It has Company Number 06973057 (England and Wales) and Julian is its Director (contact).

Creatura’s focus is on cooperation to improve policy and practice: for climate change mitigation, especially by protecting and restoring high carbon-density ecosystems; for climate change adaptation, especially by strengthening communities and ecosystems against the effects of climate chaos; and for biodiversity conservation and restoring peace with nature, especially by enhancing local control and understanding of ecosystems and the benefits they provide sustainably with proper management.

The name Creatura is from the Latin root that gives us creation and creature. From the psychology of Carl Jung, the ecologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson divided the Universe into the Pleroma (the non-living world of undifferentiated and inanimate matter) and the Creatura (the living world of change, perceptual difference, distinction and information). Thus creatura means, and Creatura Ltd stands for, preserving the dynamic diversity of life, mind and society through ecology, education and good governance. 

Creatura Ltd has so far provided Julian as team/technical lead in these major projects:

  • 2021-2022: Evaluation of the global climate aid portfolio of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). This was published along with the evidence and is being used to shape the 2025-2028 Swiss International Cooperation Strategy as a resource for prioritising nature- and community-based solutions and co-benefits.
  • 2020-2021: Evaluation of the global climate aid portfolio of the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Danida). This was published and used to implement the 2020 Danish Global Climate Action Strategy and to shape the successor cooperation strategy.
  • 2019-2020: Evaluations of three Institutional Cooperation Instrument projects in Tanzania for the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The projects focused on forest and coastal/marine ecosystem resources, and geological/soil chemistry surveys.
  • 2019: Synthesis of strategic evaluations of EU cooperation in four areas: sub-Saharan Africa, climate change, gender equity, and private sector engagement.
  • 2018: Third evaluation of the Indonesia-Norway REDD+ Partnership. This analysed the causes and consequences of political changes affecting the Partnership in 2015-2018, and opportunities for continued strategic progress on forest and peatland conservation.
  • 2017: Evaluation of Danish-Nepalese development cooperation in 1991-2016. This was published and focused on contributions in the areas of peace, rights and governance, renewable energy, education, urban/industrial environments and community-based renewable natural resources management.
  • 2015: Inception phase evaluation of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. This developed a process with the 47 FCPF countries to gauge their increasing capacity to conserve high carbon-density ecosystems using World Bank financing.
  • 2015: Ecological analysis of the Indonesian Seas Large Marine Ecosystem. This supported the preparation of a GEF project by FAO to address widespread and inter-jurisdictional marine environmental issues.
  • 2014: Evaluation of the Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Programme in Indonesia.
  • 2013: Second evaluation of the Indonesia-Norway REDD+ Partnership. Like the first evaluation in 2011 (also led by Julian through Creatura Ltd), this assessed deliverables under a US$1 billion commitment to conserve high carbon-density ecosystems.
  • 2012-2013: Evaluation of the global climate aid portfolios of two Swiss government agencies: the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland (SEC).
  • 2011: Evaluation of long-term country programmes between Finland and Nepal, Nicaragua and Tanzania.
  • 2010: Synthesis evaluation of sustainable poverty reduction under the Development Policy of Finland.
  • 2009-2010: Missions to update the environmental profile, identify opportunities, and formulate new climate change cooperation actions between the EU and Indonesia.