The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel (GGW), spearheaded by the African Union, is already a regional concept that seeks to rehabilitate more than 100 million hectares of damaged landscapes and generate 10 million green employment in 11 nations. Successful restoration projects currently included in this plan offer a chance for additional funding to speed up and scale up. Through successful, high-integrity, large-scale voluntary carbon market (VCM) programs, investment in nature-based solutions in the Sahel may provide significant economic, environmental, and social rewards, as the research linked below demonstrates. The analysis underlines the region’s unrealized potential of 1.8 billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent, which, at the market price in 2023—which is expected to rise sharply—could provide a carbon asset worth of up to $28 billion.