Digital Design
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GenAI
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Climate & Sustainability
Client
FSD Africa
Year
2025
Discipline
Digital Design
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GenAI
Sector
Climate & Sustainability
Stack
D3.js, Replit
Built for FSD Africa, Catalyst Fund, and BFA Global, this analytics dashboard demystifies Africa's voluntary carbon credit market for researchers, policymakers, ESG analysts, and climate finance professionals. As the data visualisation and design lead, I handled data cleanup and designed the entire dashboard on Replit — translating raw market data into an interactive, navigable tool.
The result aggregates 72 million transacted credits across 38 African countries, surfacing who's buying (European corporations like Eni, Shell, and Gucci dominate at 69.6%), which nations generate the most supply, what project types underpin credits (REDD+ leads at 42%), and how bilateral agreements flow under UNFCCC Article 6.2.
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As part of our Africa carbon market module series, I led and designed an interactive dashboard to visualise key Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) data from different African countries, using only GenAI tools. Our research into the carbon credit ecosystem had given us data on over 4,000 carbon credit buyers across countries, sectors and buyer types, but it lived in a spreadsheet, and the existing tools we researched were either behind a paywall or lacked the visualising aspect we were helping solve. Our audience was energy and climate tech startups in Africa interested in entering the carbon market, investors seeking market intelligence, and companies looking to purchase carbon credits in the region. The larger goal was to see whether a pilot could evolve into a full-fledged product, and to find a route to templatisation that our colleagues might use to build data dashboards quickly for client projects.
