Africa & Emerging Markets
Local Climate Action · Institutional Scale
Climate will be solved locally.
Or not at all.
The scale is global, the work to solve it is local. Climate work happens on the ground, in the farms, forests, watersheds, and communities spanning the globe, where climate action is real, distributed, and alive.
The scale is global, but the capital that moves at global scale has stayed out of the sector.
The result: climate action is underfunded by $9 trillion every year, while an estimated $150 trillion of dry powder stays benched on the sidelines, waiting to be put to work.
Capital didn't choose this. It chose the path of least resistance.
Facet builds the infrastructure that changes where capital flows.
The Climate Finance Gap
The bottleneck is not capital.
It is not will.
It is structure.
For institutional capital to move, it needs structure: standardized instruments, recognizable risk, predictable performance, scalable deals, profitable allocations, and trusted systems infrastructure.
Climate markets offer the opposite: antiquated models, philanthropic level returns, fragmented deal flow, and unmanaged risk. Effectively invisible to the capital capable of moving at the scale the work demands.
Natural systems generating high utility value for investors and businesses sit outside conventional finance entirely. Unpriced. Unrecognized. Undervalued.
The Alignment
The next big climate breakthrough
is not technology.
It is alignment.
Climate is a complex system out of balance. Restoring systems balance means realigning climate drivers to flow with the carbon cycle, not against it.
Capital is one of the most powerful of those drivers. It didn't choose to destabilize the climate. It chose the path conventional markets made easiest to finance, underwrite, and scale.
Facet builds end-to-end institutional systems infrastructure that changes that path — aligning capital with the carbon cycle and creating the on-ramp for serious climate action to scale through capital markets.
When capital flows with the carbon cycle,
solutions scale at the speed of capital markets.
Not against it.
Flip the Script
We inverted every weakness into
competitive advantage.
What investors dismissed as too small, we turned into the only thing big enough to matter at institutional scale. A diversified portfolio of distributed, asset-backed climate infrastructure assets, risk-mitigated, structured for institutional deployment, providing turnkey access to trillion-dollar sectors institutional capital couldn't otherwise reach. Not despite being local and sub-utility scale. Because of it.
Perceived Weakness
Our Advantage
What It Unlocks
Too small
Institutional-scale portfolios
Diversified exposure at institutional mandate size.
Too complex
Standardized investment vehicles
Turnkey deployment. No bespoke diligence per deal.
Too fragmented
Thematic EcoSystems
Multi-sector, mandate-matched exposure in one instrument.
Too illiquid
Capital In Continuous Motion
Secondary liquidity and 3× capital efficiency over 20 years.
Too risky
Ring-fenced, asset-backed exposure
Managed downside through structure, not assumption.
Low return
Competitive risk-adjusted returns
Performance that competes with core infrastructure, from markets others couldn't access.
Risk is contained. Returns are disciplined.
Capital can scale.
When the carbon-aligned path becomes the path of least resistance — capital takes it.
Returns That Change the Conversation
Not better than traditional climate infrastructure.
A different category entirely.
The flywheel is the mechanism. PRISM is the engine.
Modern Climate Finance
Bonds had Bloomberg.
Climate has PRISM.
PRISM is the end-to-end institutional infrastructure underneath everything Facet does. Three layers, one platform, powered by Facet's sovereign, distributed PRISM AI, designed so that capital, intelligence, execution, and impact flow as a single system.
Three layers: Matrix underwrites every risk across the dimensions no other platform maps, including natural systems and local conditions. EcoSystems structures every asset into investable portfolios that compound across sectors. Aperture Terminal opens every door, giving institutional capital live access to the whole system.
Every institutional market that scales has one thing in common: an intelligence layer that makes risk legible. It simplifies investing without simplifying the asset. Bloomberg did it for bonds. PRISM does it for climate. Aperture Terminal is where you access it.
The intelligence is PRISM.
The terminal is Aperture.
EcoSystems
Not a portfolio of projects.
A strategic climate allocation framework.
One repeatable model. Running on what each place already has.
We turn local climate action into serious infrastructure.
Energy, materials, food, carbon, biodiversity: stacked into one asset, generating revenue across sectors a single-purpose project never could. Not a thesis. Not an index. A real cluster of operating projects you can buy whole, or compose across the themes that match your mandate. Nine countries, thirteen EcoSystem types, $2.4B in pipeline. One investable architecture.
From sweet sorghum biorefineries engaging thousands of smallholder farms, to rice husks becoming next-generation battery materials, to bush-removal that protects cheetah habitat and generates carbon. These are not analogies. They are operating models.
Each EcoSystem is proof that when capital aligns with the carbon cycle, it doesn't sacrifice returns. It finds them in places conventional finance never looked.
Burundi · Food Water Energy Nexus
From
Sweet sorghum, drought-resilient and nutrient-dense, converted into sugar, bioethanol, engineered biocarbons, animal feed, and carbon-negative power. 8,000 smallholder farms engaged.
JV Partner: Jeni Eco & Jitmat
Ghana · Regenerative Battery Materials
From
Rice husk silica, agricultural waste that was burned, converted into nanocarbon anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.
JV Partner: Oko Energy
Cameroon · Forest Circular Economy
From
Oil palm empty fruit bunches and fronds converted to electricity, engineered biocarbons, and bio-SNG. Alongside: a 3-million-hectare Congo Basin reforestation program.
MOU: PAMOL Plantations & WWF AFR100
Namibia & Southern Africa · Biodiversity & Natural Capital
From
Invasive encroachment bush, covering over 50% of Namibia's farmland, converted into carbon-negative electricity, bio-hydrogen, and nanocarbon materials.
JV Partner: Kalulu Resources
India · Nagaland · Industrial Decarbonization
From
Bamboo, fast-growing and carbon-sequestering, converted into carbon-negative baseload electricity and engineered biocarbons.
JV Partner: Climes Agri
How It Works
"Local SMEs aren't short on ideas or ambition — they're short on support that meets them where they are. Early-stage agribusinesses across Africa, many run by young entrepreneurs, are providing solutions in food production, processing, and distribution — yet remain largely excluded from formal finance.
Capital alone won't build resilient food systems. Transforming them means rethinking how investment finance is structured — shifting systems, not just scaling individual projects.
So what will?"
Diane-Emmanuelle Potey
Regional Lead, West Africa — SNV / Dutch Fund for Climate and Development
This Will.
The Technology Stack
Capital flows through thousands of local climate solutions
on its way to trillion dollar markets.
We integrate undervalued bio-based technologies into a scalable, modular, deployable platform designed to mirror the carbon cycle. Powered by locally available biomass waste, our system converts organic residues into restored carbon flows, healthier ecosystems, diversified revenue streams, and a streamlined entry point into the fastest-growing trillion-dollar climate markets.
Modern Wealth Creation
Everyone who makes the project work
holds equity.
This is the structural innovation that makes Facet Facet. Local entrepreneurs enter every project through a 50/50 JV with Facet. Business partners from day one. Nature holds a 2–5% equity position in the capital stack of every asset. Not symbolic. Not an offset. Stakeholders with standing.
It isn't ESG. It isn't impact as a side effect. When the people who carry the project carry the upside, and the natural systems that sustain it hold a stake in its success, returns and impact stop trading off. They compound.
The Partnership Model
Local Matters Most.
Local execution risk is the most consistently undervalued variable in climate infrastructure. No amount of capital can overcome a failure to invest in local relationships and authentic community engagement. We mitigate that risk by forming equitable partnerships with local entrepreneurs and making a long-term commitment to the businesses we build together.
Our partners bring what no outside team can replicate: local context, natural systems knowledge, community relationships, and cultural fluency. Blended local and international JV teams bridge business cultures, institutional finance requirements, and on-the-ground realities, turning local insight into investable, scalable climate businesses.
Because investing in local communities and valuing local knowledge
on par with international expertise isn't optional. It's essential.
Nature as Stakeholder
Nature in
the Capital Stack.
For more than a century, conventional finance has left natural systems off the balance sheet. The carbon that forests sequester, the water that wetlands filter, the biodiversity that healthy ecosystems sustain — these generate real, measurable value the market was never designed to capture.
Nature holds a 2–5% equity position in every Facet asset through a formal legal structure. Not symbolic. Not an offset. A stakeholder with standing. Every project removes, stores, avoids, and displaces CO₂, stacking co-benefits across the full carbon cycle. Every project. Every time.
Profit because of impact,
not in spite of it.
Modern Climate Action
360° Carbon Cycle Impact.
Every project. Every time.
Every Facet project is engineered to address multiple climate systems simultaneously, not as a byproduct, but as architecture. Carbon sequestration, biodiversity regeneration, watershed restoration, food system resilience, clean energy transition: these are not tradeoffs in a well-designed EcoSystem. They are the same project, running at the same time.
This is what the climate needs, not a portfolio of single-purpose interventions but infrastructure that hits every variable at once. It is also, not coincidentally, what creates the multi-revenue stack that makes the investment case so compelling. Impact and return are not in tension here. They are the same mechanism.
Single projects solve one problem.
EcoSystems solve them all.
Every great asset class has a moment when institutional systems infrastructure arrives and capital recognizes it.
We invite you to explore Our EcoSystems and Aperture Terminal.