This session will spotlight how climate and nature finance can deliver tangible resilience gains in fragile contexts - from refugee-hosting areas to drought-affected rural communities. Anchored by UNHCR’s Refugee Environmental Protection (REP) Fund and ECCON work in Roraima, Brazil and the BRCiS experience in Somalia, the dialogue will examine how ecosystem restoration, clean cooking, and landscape-level programs can reinforce both food security and carbon-based financing pathways. It will highlight lessons for scaling high-integrity, locally led solutions across humanitarian and development settings.

Event objectives

Demonstrate how climate and nature finance can bridge immediate food security needs and long-term resilience through integrated, locally led interventions.

Present technical insights from the REP Fund in Brazil on designing high-integrity carbon projects in fragile and displacement-affected contexts.

Showcase dual-impact approaches that simultaneously restore ecosystems and strengthen livelihoods.

Identify policy and financing enablers to scale such models through national frameworks (e.g. PNGATI, NDCs) and the Baku-to-Belém roadmap.

Key outcomes 

Position refugee-hosting and Indigenous territories as priority frontiers for nature and climate finance under the Global Goal on Adaptation and the Baku-to-Belém roadmap.

Demonstrate that integrated approaches deliver measurable co-benefits across food security, protection, and climate mitigation.

Underscore that innovative financing mechanisms can sustainably fund programs in fragile contexts when paired with strong safeguards and community ownership.

Call for national and global frameworks that enable high-integrity, locally led climate[1]nature investments in areas most exposed to risk.