Spectrum Africa | Greening Health Securing Ecosystems

We are driving an ecosystem thinking approach through health-centric and nature-positive lenses that dot-connect and integrate synergies across climate-impacted sectors of our economy, to advance sustainability and resilience in our just transition to Climate-Positive Growth.

We are modeling and scaling science-based initiatives and programs to catalyze policy shifts, strategies, and direct investments toward achieving an optimal balance between commercial viability and sustainability. Our initiatives are anchored on health and nature’s inspiration through science, circularity, innovation, market-shaping, and ecosystem strengthening while leveraging technology, impact investing, and partnerships as accelerators toward resilience.

What we do

Accelerating transformation toward climate resilience.

Economies in Africa face significant risks to their resilience and livelihood as they are deeply connected to nature and biodiversity, thus disproportionately vulnerable to the unpredictability of climate change.

We are driving anticipatory action to ensure non-fatalistic interventions that empower business organizations and communities to pre-empt risks and optimize efficient resource utilization.

Our innovations nurture adaptation, mitigation, resource management, ethical consideration for a greener economy, and regeneration practices that secure community and ecosystem health.

Regenerative practices that strengthen and restore ecosystems.

>70% of CO2 emissions relate to how we handle resources, making supply chains key to addressing environmental issues to determine if businesses can meet low-emission or net-zero targets. As Climate affects environmental and social determinants of health, waste reduction, circularity, and innovation will help mitigate its effects and pollution while meeting increasing and diversifying health and economic growth needs.

We are exploring how everyday things can be designed within planetary limits, paving the way for expanded circular thinking that challenge business ethics or practices, and consumer preferences or behaviours. We are safeguarding long-term resilience and strengthening the ability of businesses and communities to anticipate and manage socially-mediated climate effects.

We are advancing adaptation as current sustainability approaches embrace the “do-no-harm” maxim that focuses on minimizing negative impacts but falls short in the face of runaway climate injustices. Circularity promotes social equity, enhances ecosystem health, and generates economic value. By redefining the types of value to prioritize, regenerative practices contribute positively to society, economy, and environment for current and future generations.

Impact investing to catalyze the scale-up of viable initiatives.

Amidst the generalization of research and lack of robust social impact evaluation tools, investors deem climate ventures high-risk and less attractive. Declining aid and strained resources pit climate venture against other competing priorities, with Private finance limited while Concessionary finance unsustainable. However, it is not the lack of real capital but the shortage of risk capital to fund early-stage growth initiatives and small ventures that create transformative impact.

As risk appetite or averseness determines capital flow to projects, we are deploying analytical rigor in advocating for impact investing to be more tolerant, take more risks, test new markets, and scale viable climate ventures that drive outsized returns and generate transformative environmental, economic, and social impact.

We are de-risking the Climate investment space by translating research evidence into bankable, investable, and accountable ventures that move the needle on SDGs 3, 7, 12, 13, and 17. As a hub, we facilitate collaborations and connections between research, policy-making, and industry through market-shaping strategies with sustainable commercial considerations and equal sharing of risks and returns by all.