Co-Investing in Nature (COIN) is a lean advisory and field-building practice that works with partners to design and develop better ways to deploy catalytic funding for landscape-scale nature outcomes — working primarily through existing institutions rather than new ones.
COIN focuses on contribution capital: catalytic funding deployed without expectation of financial return, tradable credits, or exclusive ownership of outcomes — paired with contribution claims that say what a funder helped make possible, based on evidence.
Contribution capital gives companies, donors, and public funders a disciplined way to fund landscape-scale nature outcomes without having to buy credits or own outcomes. Contribution claims keep recognition tied to evidence.
Co-investment is a flexible approach that can work in many contexts — Indigenous territorial management, commodity landscapes, watershed management, jurisdictional programs — the same logic across very different settings.
COIN works through advisory engagements, development of co-investment mechanisms, and grant-funded framework development — from a bounded diagnostic to standing up a mechanism in a landscape. Engagements are scoped to the client’s problem, whether or not it involves COIN’s core frameworks.
A lean field-building and advisory practice founded by
Lex Hovani, drawing on more than two decades in climate and landscape finance.
