Where this sits: Natural capital Nature finance Biodiversity markets & credits Climate & sustainability strategy
71
Capital providers
29
Financing mechanisms
2
Market rating models
32
Deals recorded
~$1.7B
Announced / committed
~$920M
Recurring per year
The data-rich centrepiece

Africa nature-finance deals

Where the money moved

A structured, sourced tracker of real African transactions: debt-for-nature swaps, blue and green bonds, wildlife and outcome bonds, blended-finance facilities, and forest-carbon offtakes. Each deal carries an amount, an instrument category, country, year, parties, and a source.

17 deals in the total ~$1.8B announced 12 countries in the total Open the tracker →

The five layers

Supply, mechanisms, markets, deals, recurring spend

Funders

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Capital supply

The organisations that fund African conservation: foundations, DFIs, multilaterals, corporates. Who they are, what they back, and how they show up in Africa.

71 funders Supply side

Instruments

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Mechanisms

The catalogue of financing mechanisms across voluntary, compliance, sovereign, blended, philanthropic and emerging categories. How capital is structured.

30 instruments 7 categories

C-CARBON

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Carbon market

Africa carbon-project ratings across five dimensions, with sovereign default risk priced in via C-RISK. Part of the wider Carbon hub.

Africa ratings 5 dimensions

C-BIO

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Biodiversity market

Integrity ratings of the standards that issue and govern biodiversity credits, the fastest-emerging instrument in nature finance.

9 standards 5 integrity dims

Recurring funding

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The operating money

What actually keeps protected areas open: government agency budgets and NGO operating accounts, sourced document by document and restated into one currency year.

~$920M / yr sourced records

About this hub

Scope and sources: what counts as nature finance here, and what's out of scope