Africa & Emerging Markets

Climate is a system.

We solve it like one.™

In Ghana, a farmer sells what she used to burn.

Local Climate Action. Institutional Scale.™

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The Structural Gap
The most valuable climate solutions are
the ones the world passes by.

They are local by nature, happening on the ground, in the forests, on farms, across value chains, led by communities on the front lines.

Capital with the power to scale them cannot reach the work. Not because local climate action lacks value. Not because capital is in short supply. Because the most important climate work on the planet has never been structured to receive it.

$9T
Climate underfunded, every year
$150T
Institutional capital, idle

The bottleneck is not capital. It is not will. It is structure.

What We Do
The Facet System.

End to end institutional systems infrastructure elevating local climate action into an asset class institutional capital can see, trust, and scale with global markets.

Partner

With local entrepreneurs

For the context, relationships, and natural systems knowledge no outside team can replicate. We form equal joint ventures.

Build

Investment-grade infrastructure

Climate, energy, and natural capital infrastructure and scalable enterprises, structured from the ground up for investment and scale.

Connect

The rails for capital

Turnkey access for institutional capital to reach them, allocate to them, reinvest through them, and eventually trade them.

The next big breakthrough in climate is not technology. It’s alignment. When institutional capital, natural systems, and local sovereignty align, local climate solutions scale to meet global capital markets.

Climate will be solved locally. Or not at all.

The Inversion
Every weakness the market saw
became a design principle.

Facet takes what made local climate action hard to finance and turns it into the reason it can outperform. Every barrier to institutional capital became a structural advantage.

Seen as
Built as
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 reinvestment through sequential assets.
Too risky
Ring-fenced, asset-backed exposure
Managed downside through structure, not assumption.
Too local
Distributed climate infrastructure
The defect conventional finance named is the diversification.

Not despite being local. Because it is local.

EcoSystems
Not a portfolio of projects.
A strategic climate allocation framework.

One repeatable model, running on what each place already has.

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 projects you can hold whole, or compose across the themes that match your mandate.

9
Countries
13
Climate Themes
$2.4B
Pipeline

A project is an investment. An EcoSystem is a market architecture.

Technology & The Value Chain
Local feedstocks.
Global markets.

Agricultural residues, invasive biomass, forestry waste, and underused natural assets are converted into energy, advanced materials, carbon removal, soil restoration, biodiversity gains, and local enterprise value.

What conventional markets treated as waste, risk, or externality becomes productive infrastructure. The same local asset connects to multiple trillion-dollar markets.

Renewable energyCarbon removalHydrogenAdvanced materials Natural capitalAgricultureEcoSystem servicesGrid infrastructureInfrastructure

How It Works

From a rice farm in Ghana
to global carbon and materials markets.

The Process
The Proof
The most potent climate solutions,
built into high-performance assets.
Ghana · JV Oko Energy

Rice husks to advanced materials.

Engineered biocarbons and advanced energy storage materials. Regenerative African feedstock entering a supply chain that has never had any.

Burundi · JV Jeni Eco & Esmond Group

Sweet sorghum biorefinery.

Sugar, fuel, engineered biocarbons, feed, and carbon-negative power across 8,000 smallholder farms.

Namibia · JV Kalulu Resources

Invasive bush, clean energy, a savanna restored.

Encroachment bush becomes energy and advanced materials. The cheetah's savanna comes back.

These are not analogies. They are operating models.

“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 of them 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 food systems 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 Partnership Model
Local Matters Most.

Local execution risk is the most consistently undervalued variable in climate infrastructure. No amount of capital overcomes a failure to invest in local relationships and authentic engagement. We mitigate it by forming equitable partnerships with local entrepreneurs and committing for the long term to the businesses we build together.

Local contextNatural systems knowledgeCommunity relationshipsCultural fluency

Valuing local knowledge on par with international expertise isn't optional. It's essential.

Modern Wealth Creation
Everyone who makes the project work
holds equity.

The system works because everybody wins. We don't ask anyone to give anything up.

Local entrepreneurs

Equal joint venture

Already solving real problems on the ground. They see the local problem and the solution; we expand it into investment-grade infrastructure, together.

Nature

5% in perpetuity

An equity position in every asset through a formal legal structure. Not symbolic. Not an offset. A stakeholder with standing.

Investors

Share in the upside

When local operators, investors, and natural systems share in the upside, impact and return stop trading off. They compound.

The trust has to hold on every side. The investor's trust that it will perform. The partner's trust that it was built with them and never extracted from them. The planet's trust that we heal the system rather than trade one harm for another.

Trust is not a sentiment. It's an architecture.

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 systems sustain. Real, measurable value the market was never designed to capture.

Encroachment-bush removal restores cheetah habitat. Clean-energy freshwater gives desert elephants safe range.

Modern Climate Action
360° Carbon Cycle Impact.™
Every project. Every time.

Facet projects move multiple climate variables at once: removing, storing, avoiding, and displacing carbon while improving biodiversity, water, soil, energy, food, and local enterprise. These are not side effects. They are the architecture.

And the room to grow is the whole point. These are the fastest-scaling markets on earth.

4,000×Carbon removal
60×Nature finance
20×Hydrogen
10×Bioenergy
9×Circular economy
4×Distributed solar

Single projects solve one problem. EcoSystems solve the system.

Modern Climate Finance
Bonds had Bloomberg.
Climate has PRISM.

Liquidity begins with legibility. Markets become liquid when assets become understandable, comparable, and trusted.

PRISM, the Project Risk Integrity Systems Matrix, is Facet's institutional intelligence layer. It makes distributed climate infrastructure visible, underwritable, and accessible to capital markets.

Matrix

Underwrites

Risk across climate, natural systems, local execution, and market dimensions no other platform maps.

EcoSystems

Structures

Assets into diversified, multi-revenue climate infrastructure portfolios.

Aperture Terminal

Opens

Investor access to opportunities, data, and portfolio construction.

PRISM makes climate legible. Aperture makes it investable.

Money needs to
flow like carbon.

Through communities, through natural systems, through returns. And back again.

Modern Climate Action

Local action.
Institutional architecture.

Modern Climate Finance

Distributed assets.
Institutional returns.

Modern Wealth Creation

Local equity.
Generational compounding.

Capital, climate, local sovereignty, and natural systems move together as one system, in balance. Nobody gives anything up. That's the design.

Every great asset class has a moment when institutional systems infrastructure arrives and capital recognizes it.

Fixed income · Equities · Private markets · Mutual funds · REITs · Climate
This is climate's
moment.

Welcome to how climate gets solved.

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