As the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework negotiations enter the second week in Geneva, Switzerland, representatives of the African Protected Area Directors (APAD) and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) shared A Pan-African Conservation Trust (A-PACT) as a solution, amongst others, for creating sustainable financial mechanisms for Africa’s Protected and Conserved Area network and systems. Negotiators from across Africa welcomed the concept, proposing it as a solution to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The experts commend the vision set out by A-PACT of ensuring sustained and sufficient financing for all of Africa’s protected and conserved areas as essential to achieving Africa’s development aspirations and key to implementing the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework that is being negotiated.