There is an opportunity to generate commercial returns for investors by investing in scalable nature-positive businesses that could play a major role in tackling the climate and biodiversity crisis in Africa:

• directly, by sequestering carbon, by avoiding deforestation, by replacing carbon-intensive business models with more sustainable ones, or by protecting biodiversity. Investment opportunities in this space include carbon projects, renewable energy & off-grid energy solutions, sustainable food system innovations, sustainable building materials and non-timber forest products such as honey
• indirectly, by reducing human pressures on forests and conservation areas. Opportunities here include responsible agriculture that generate alternative livelihoods to wildlife hunting, destructive grazing or land-intensive non-sustainable agricultural practices.