Innovative
Financing
New models for generating revenue are needed if restoration and rewilding are to be achieved at scale.
INNOVATIVE FINANCING
NATURAL STATE is developing and piloting innovative finance mechanisms to help catalyse large-scale nature restoration across Africa and the Global South. These mechanisms are designed to reward measurable outcomes for biodiversity, carbon, water, and human wellbeing, and are anchored in our uKweli Research & Monitoring Portal to strengthen transparency, accountability, and investor confidence.
We work with partners to design, test, and scale these mechanisms, ensuring they are rigorous, practical, and built for real-world adoption.
Plan Vivo Nature Framework
As an approved data analytics provider for the Plan Vivo Nature Framework, NATURAL STATE supports projects seeking accreditation under this respected standard. Using best-in-class science and our uKweli Research & Monitoring Portal, we provide transparent, verifiable data that strengthens credit integrity and project capability.
FINANCING MECHANISMS
Integrated Carbon and
Biodiversity Credit
This credit will integrate carbon and biodiversity impacts (measured within defined land units) to create a high-quality credit. NATURAL STATE is partnering with existing carbon standards to design and issue these credits.
Regenerative Agriculture
Credit
This credit will enable farmers to transition from industrial farming to regenerative agriculture, compensating them for the additional carbon and biodiversity benefits. This approach will also greatly increase communities’ resilience to climate change.
Rewilding Credit
This credit will emphasise ecological restoration. Payment milestones around securing land, the application of effective management, and an uplift and maintenance of biodiversity will mitigate risks for both the project and the buyers.
For all our nature financing products, we ensure that the community engagement and buy-in processes are ethical and that project funds are distributed equitably and transparently.
Custodian / Single Species
Financial Mechanism
This credit aims to reward the custodians of nature. It will focus on maintaining functioning ecosystems that support apex predators or ecosystem engineers and their associated habitats. Credits will be linked to communities maintaining or increasing the target species and habitat.
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With reliable impact measurement, financing mechanisms that reward projects benefiting biodiversity and local communities and a highly skilled workforce, we believe it will be possible to restore the natural world.
Conservation Impact Grant
This will set new standards for conservation grants that set targets and measure impact. NATURAL STATE will provide the tools to define science-based impact targets and measure progress.