Co-Investing in Nature is a specialized advisory practice focused on making catalytic funding work for large-scale nature-based climate solutions. We build mechanisms that allow multiple funders to co-invest in shared outcomes.
The practice is led by Lex Hovani, who brings over 20 years of experience in climate and nature finance. Lex worked on Jurisdictional REDD+ program development for 14 years with The Nature Conservancy, served as Senior Advisor for Sustainable Landscapes at USAID, and has worked on tropical forest conservation across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He holds dual master’s degrees from the Yale School of Management and Yale School of the Environment.
The field-building arm of the practice — the Co-Investing in Nature Initiative — is grant-funded and operates under the fiscal sponsorship of One Earth Philanthropy's Nature Data Lab. This work is pre-competitive: we develop shared infrastructure, not proprietary platforms. Advisory services operate independently.
What we believe
The economy is embedded in the biosphere, not the other way around. Natural ecosystems are essential infrastructure. Success depends not on isolated projects but on sustained systems of action involving multiple actors over time. And the funding architecture should serve the landscape’s needs—not reshape the landscape to fit the funding mechanism.
We are honest about what we don’t know. We don’t know how much funding will be available. We can’t be certain about particular landscape outcomes or particular contributions to them. That humility is not a weakness—it is what led us beyond the offset model, and it governs how we communicate about everything we do.
lexhovani@coinvesting.earth | coinvesting.earth
