Natural Capital Accounting: Unlocking Domestic Resources and Strengthening Fiscal Resilience — English
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Africa is rich in natural wealth, but it still captures too little long-term fiscal value from it. Minerals, forests, land, water systems, biodiversity, and other ecosystem assets underpin livelihoods, exports, energy transition opportunities, and future resilience. Yet these assets remain weakly measured in fiscal systems, poorly integrated into public accounts, and too often governed through opaque contracts, fragmented data, and short-term extraction models.