D4. Bridging Finance Streams for the Agricultural Transition | ECFS26

Full title: D4. Bridging Finance Streams for the Agricultural Transition: Co-Claiming of Carbon Benefits and Complementarity Between Carbon and Biodiversity Approaches in Agricultural Value Chains. This session from the 3rd European Carbon Farming Summit (ECFS26), held in Padova, Italy from 17–19 March 2026, explores the growing complexity of financing carbon farming across agricultural value chains. As the transition accelerates, a diverse mix of funding sources — including public incentives, voluntary and compliance carbon markets, and private investment — is emerging. However, this creates key challenges around co-claiming environmental benefits, avoiding double counting, and integrating climate and biodiversity outcomes at farm level. 🔹 Session focus The session examines how different funding streams can be combined to support carbon farming, while ensuring credibility, transparency and alignment across stakeholders. 🔹 Key themes Mapping funding mechanisms, including carbon markets, payments for ecosystem services and nature credits Co-claiming carbon and environmental benefits across value chains Preventing double counting and ensuring robust Scope 3 accounting Integrating biodiversity outcomes alongside carbon sequestration Practical insights from farmer-led initiatives and research programmes Private sector perspectives on financing biodiversity co-benefits Contributors: Romane Jubera (Agrosolutions) Edouard Lanckriet (Agrosolutions) Clothilde Tronquet (I4CE) Aaron Scheid (Ecologic Institute) Caroline Ploux (Mars) The session combines theoretical perspectives, practical case studies and private sector insights to explore how more coherent and reliable financing approaches can support the scaling of carbon farming in Europe. The 3rd European Carbon Farming Summit brought together farmers, policymakers, researchers and businesses to advance credible, scalable and impactful carbon farming across Europe. 🔗 Learn more: https://www.carbonfarmingsummit.eu