[COP31 Blue Zone] From Degraded Soil to Durable Tonnes: De-Risking Carbon Removal that Builds Farmer Resilience

​Less than 1% of global climate finance reaches small-scale agrifood systems. Most of what does reach them is grant money that stops at pilot stage. Meanwhile farmers are managing drought, degraded soil and volatile prices with capital that was never built to last.

​Join the Nordic Development Fund (NDF), FAO, UNCDF, and MATI at the COP31 Think Negative Blue Zone Pavilion for an action-oriented dialogue on what actually moves money to farmers, and what it would take to scale.

• ​Structure, not ambition: Where has concessional capital genuinely crowded in commercial money? Where have guarantees and first-loss layers changed a lender's view of farm-level risk? Where have results-based payments carried costs no single balance sheet could?

• ​One idea we want to test: revenue stacking. Pair an adaptation outcome with an environmental outcome someone will pay for. How far does that archetype travel? And what does it need from public and concessional capital to hold?

• ​Enhanced rock weathering is a working example. Crushed silicate on a smallholder's field restores degraded soil and lifts yields and incomes at no cost to the farmer, while generating a durable carbon credit a corporate buys. A resilience intervention with a revenue line attached.

​We want to leave with a shared read on which blended structures are ready to replicate, where the gaps still sit, and which partnerships are worth building into 2027.

​Event Particulars

​📅 10 November 2026, 11:15-12:15 (GMT+3)

​📍 D250, Think Negative Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP31, Antalya

​🎙 Nordic Development Fund, FAO, MATI and others.