Sovereign Land makes degraded land bankable — for any owner.

The Hermits Peak fire cost $7 billion. The probability of a comparable wildfire in New Mexico’s most threatened firesheds — including Santa Fe — is effectively 100% within the next decade. Post-fire, the land doesn’t recover. It re-burns.

Two operational nodes turn this liability into productive infrastructure. In the north, fire-damaged timber becomes biochar — a soil amendment that holds water, filters contaminants, and sequesters carbon. In the south, cattle manure becomes fertiliser, energy, and soil restoration through rapid anaerobic digestion and composting. Together, they create a self-hedging system: when one output faces volatility, the others compensate.

Municipal water utilities are already absorbing the cost of contaminated watersheds. Performance contracts — where the buyer pays a percentage of verified savings — align incentives without upfront cost to the municipality.

Spain and Portugal have burned over 3.3 million hectares since 2006 — more than any other region in Europe. The 2025 fire season alone cost over €8 billion. Across the Iberian interior, 320,000 km² of land — la España Vaciada, the emptied Spain — has been abandoned. 3,400 towns are at risk of disappearing. Unmanaged vegetation on depopulated land is the primary driver of catastrophic fire.

Sovereign Land’s Iberia pilot deploys the same core infrastructure — LandStack, Transition Facility, multi-output self-hedging — on a fundamentally different ownership pattern: fragmented private and municipal land where no one entity can finance the transition. Paulownia agroforestry restores the land, creates rural employment, and produces dedicated biomass for industrial offtake — while reducing fire risk from year one.