Co-investing in Nature works with partners who are trying to answer hard funding-design questions:
Landscape and jurisdictional initiatives asking how to attract catalytic funding without distorting the work.
Finance vehicles and intermediaries asking how grants, corporate funding, public finance, carbon revenues, and investment capital can fit together.
Foundations and bilateral funders asking whether their nature portfolios are reaching the right parts of the delivery system — and whether their funding is genuinely catalytic.
WHAT THE PRACTICE DOES
COIN’s approach is grounded in more than two decades of work across jurisdictional REDD+, sustainable landscapes, Indigenous territorial management, watershed restoration, catalytic grantmaking, corporate sustainability, and nature-finance mechanism design. The practice operates through two streams, both anchored in a shared analytical foundation.
Commercial advisory
Engagements with landscape initiatives, jurisdictional programs, finance vehicles, foundations, and bilateral programs on diagnostics, mechanism design, and ongoing advisory.
Field-building
Grant-funded development of open-source frameworks, working memos, and shared infrastructure for the field as a whole — carried under fiscal sponsorship of One Earth Philanthropy’s Nature Data Lab.
ANALYTICAL FOUNDATION
Both streams draw on a developed framework for assessing how catalytic funding flows through landscape systems — the NbCS Value Chain, Congruence Model for Nature Finance, Claims Ladder, Intermediary Architecture, and Field Intelligence System. The framework is the basis for diagnostic depth, design discipline, and the field-building work the practice contributes.
HOW TO ENGAGE
To discuss an initiative, a portfolio, or a design challenge, write to Lex Hovani at lexhovani@coinvesting.earth.
