About the 6th GLF Investment Case Symposium
Hosted in Luxembourg and online, GLF–Luxembourg Finance for Nature 2023: What comes next? united 4,500 participants from 160 countries around how finance can solve – rather than exacerbate – the climate and biodiversity crises. The event featured 106 speakers and 100 global and local partner organizations and reached 10 million people on social media, with more than 230,000 engagements.
About this session
How can we leverage the potential of carbon markets to enable smallholders to transition to agroforestry at scale? Smallholders are responsible for 80% of human-consumed food production but are hit hardest by climate change despite having contributed little to it. Furthermore, smallholders lack access to traditional financial means to diversify their business model, become more climate resilient & improve their livelihoods. As just 1.7% of current climate finance flows to smallholders, we need new solutions. Projects making use of carbon finance have a lot of potentials if implemented well. In this session, Acorn (Rabobank) and One Acre Fund discuss how.
Resources
Video: How small-scale farmers are helping companies offset emissions
Video: Climate solutions in action: ACORN platform enables farmers to capture and trade carbon emissions
Publication: The Acorn Framework for voluntary, ex-post, agroforestry carbon removal units
Publication: One Acre Fund – connecting climate financing with the people who need it the most
Publication: Growing the community you serve
Infographic: Carbon farming with Rabobank
Presentation: Cooperative carbon finance
