Financing Green Recovery Using Natural Capital Approaches Across Africa

To better understand the role of natural capital in green recovery in Africa, the Natural Capital for African Development Finance (NC4-ADF) programme in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC) and the UNFCCC Regional Collaboration Centre, Kampala, organised a webinar series entitled “Mainstreaming Natural Capital in Africa’s post-COVID19 Development Agenda”. This briefing note summarises the main take-aways from this webinar series and provides an overview of natural capital concepts and how they link to Green Economic Recovery. It highlights Africa’s regional action plan for a post-covid green recovery, and the role natural capital can play in delivering the African Union (AU) Green Recovery Action Plan. It concludes by identifying the ways Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) are and can directly and indirectly support financing natural capital approaches for green recovery in Africa.