Two-Day Summit Programme
Two days of insight, partnerships, finance, implementation, and market-building for the regenerative carbon economy. This summit is about making carbon credits work from farmer to buyer — showing the world that Africa's nature-based credits can carry a genuine regenerative edge, rooted in restored soils, resilient farming systems, measurable environmental outcomes, and real economic value for the people producing them.
From Idea to Market: Building the Carbon Economy
27 October
Registration & Networking Breakfast
Arrival, delegate registration, early-stage networking, and opening expo engagement.
Opening Ceremony
Opening remarks, welcome to delegates and partners, and framing the summit mission: from soil restoration to global carbon markets.
Opening Keynote: Africa's Carbon Opportunity
A high-level keynote on why Africa is uniquely placed to lead in nature-based carbon through land, biomass, farmer participation, and regenerative potential — and what it will take to move from pilot activity to real continental scale.
Networking Break
Bringing the Entire Ecosystem Together
A practical look at the full carbon value chain — from farmer to developer to verifier to buyer — and why projects fail when these actors remain fragmented. This session focuses on building integrated, end-to-end systems that can actually scale.
From Idea to Fundable Project
What makes a carbon project bankable? This session explores how projects are structured for finance, where projects go wrong, and what is required to move from concept note to fundable opportunity.
Where Is the Money?
A direct discussion on the capital stack behind regenerative carbon projects, including development finance, forward carbon offtake, blended finance, catalytic capital, and the early-stage funding needed to get projects off the ground.
Lunch & Expo Viewing
What Do Funders Actually Want?
Investors, banks, development finance actors, and buyers explain what they fund, what they reject, and what makes a project credible, investable, and scalable.
Designing Farmer Access to Finance
One of the central questions of the summit: how does the farmer actually access funding? This session explores cooperative finance, aggregator models, escrow structures, carbon pre-finance, staged payments, and how financial design can reduce farmer risk while supporting participation.
Coffee Break
The Regenerative Edge in Nature-Based Credits
What makes a carbon credit truly regenerative? This session explores how soil restoration, water retention, reduced chemical dependence, biodiversity improvement, and stronger farmer outcomes can create a new class of high-value nature-based credits.
From Farmer to Buyer
How do we build a carbon chain that works all the way through? This session focuses on connecting farmers, project developers, verification systems, and buyers into one functioning pathway that creates trust, integrity, and value at every stage.
Buyer Dialogue: What Creates Demand?
A candid discussion with carbon buyers and market participants on what creates confidence, what generates premium demand, and why traceability, credibility, and measurable co-benefits matter more than ever.
Evening Reception & Deal Room Networking
A focused evening gathering designed to encourage strategic introductions, partnership building, and commercial dialogue between project developers, investors, buyers, and implementation partners.
Implementation, Integrity & Scaling Impact
28 October
Networking Breakfast
Creating Real Farmer Income
How do carbon credits translate into real farmer cashflow? This session explores revenue-sharing models, immediate and long-term value for producers, and how regenerative carbon systems can support the shift from subsistence pressure to sustainable income.
Cooperative Scale and Rural Delivery
A practical session on how projects are delivered at field level through aggregation models, farmer groups, extension systems, and local implementation structures that support adoption, trust, and scale.
Coffee Break
DMRV: Killing Greenwashing, Building Trust
A technical but highly practical discussion on what credible digital monitoring, reporting, and verification looks like in the field — including soil measurement, satellite support, local data collection, and AI-assisted systems that can help create confidence with buyers and verifiers.
Verification, Integrity & Market Confidence
This session addresses the core of market trust: what verifiers, registries, and buyers need to see; how projects prove credibility; and how Africa can lead with credits that are robust, transparent, and defensible.
Lunch & Expo Engagement
Biochar at Scale: Restoring Soils & Ecosystems
A deep look at how biochar can move from a local intervention to a continental restoration tool — turning biomass into soil value, supporting long-term fertility, improving water systems, and strengthening ecological resilience.
Policy, Regulation & Article 6
An important discussion on the role of governments, standards, and national frameworks in supporting credible regenerative carbon systems. Topics include market readiness, policy alignment, safeguards, and the implications of Article 6 for African countries.
Coffee Break
Jobs, Skills & Technology Transfer
How do we build the workforce behind the regenerative carbon economy? This session focuses on rural employment, women- and youth-led participation, extension systems, digital agriculture, and the skills needed to support scale.
Case Studies: What's Already Working
A showcase of live and emerging examples, including large-scale biochar projects, smallholder aggregation systems, and commercial plantation models that demonstrate what can work in practice.
From Summit to Deployment
A forward-looking session focused on commitments, pilot pipelines, partnerships, and the structures needed to turn summit dialogue into real-world implementation.
Closing Plenary
Final reflections, key messages, and a closing call to action around making regenerative carbon systems work from farmer to buyer.
Secure Your Place
Tickets include access to all sessions across both days, plus networking events and the evening reception.