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SNV at COP31: From ambition to locally led, globally backed action
From 9 to 20 November, SNV will participate in UNFCCC COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, alongside partners working to turn global climate commitments into locally led action.
The next chapter of climate action is about delivery. As momentum around global commitments grows, attention is turning to how they can build resilience and opportunity for the people living at the frontlines of climate change.
At COP31, we will contribute experience from across our programmes and partnerships to conversations about how climate finance can reach the actors and systems driving resilience, how integrated approaches can connect water, energy and agri-food systems, and how locally led climate adaptation can be strengthened and sustained.
Sessions: Monday, 9 November
Planning Together, Financing Together, Implementing Together the 3 Rio Conventions
Side Event White Room | 16:45 - 18:15
Siloed planning hinders climate, biodiversity, and land targets. This event explores how agrifood systems can serve as a unified platform to align the Rio Conventions—moving from fragmented governance and finance to a single, coherent, and actionable implementation agenda.
Partners: SNV, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, FAIRR, ProVeg
Sessions: Wednesday, 11 November
Climate action through transforming waste into modern cooking energy
Irena Pavilion | 10:30 - 11:30
This session will identify practical measures to mobilise the investment needed to scale waste-derived bioenergy for clean cooking. It will show how agricultural, waste management and climate benefits, together with climate finance, policy reform and new partnership and delivery models, can build investor confidence and move projects from local deployment to sustained scale.
Partners: IRENA, World Bioenergy Association, SNV, FAO, UNIDO
Sessions: Thursday, 12 November
What will the next generation of food systems resilience solutions look like?
Food & Agriculture Pavilion | 9:00 - 10:00
The next generation of food systems resilience solutions must work under compounding climate, economic, and geopolitical pressures. Drawing on practical cases, this interactive session examines what needs to change in how solutions are designed, financed and delivered. Successes and failures of programs spanning value chains and partnerships will ground a discussion with negotiators and practitioners on practical priorities for implementation, joint learning, and action beyond COP31.
Partners: ODI, International 4 per 1000 Initiative, SNV
Making climate adaptation investable: From public support to private capital
Benelux Pavilion | 9:30 - 11:00
This side event will explore how catalytic public finance, early-stage support and local leadership can help make climate adaptation solutions investable and unlock private capital. Drawing on practical experience from the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD), it will highlight how different actors and forms of finance can work together to move promising local solutions towards scale.
Partners: The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DFCD, FMO, WWF, SNV, Climate Fund Managers, Convergence
Waste to Energy for Bangladesh: Turning Methane Hotspots into Clean Electricity
Bangladesh Pavilion | 14:30 - 15:30
This side event showcases how methane hotspots can be turned into clean electricity and organic fertiliser, highlighting innovative blended finance pathways to de-risk and scale circular energy across urban Asia.
Partners: Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), Bangladesh's Department of Environment, Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA), Bangladesh Power Development Board, Bangladesh Bank
Sessions: Tuesday, 17 November
The Road to Bankability–Scaling Climate-Resilient Food Systems
Singapore Pavilion | 13:30 - 14:45
Climate change is increasingly threatening ASEAN’s food systems, particularly rice production, yet proven adaptation solutions remain stuck at pilot stage. This session focuses on how to make climate adaptation bankable by scaling successful interventions through aggregation models that connect smallholders to finance, technical assistance, data, and markets.
Partners: Olam Agri, NCCS, Temasek Trust
Meet the delegates
Simon O'Connell
Chief Executive Officer
Juan Pablo Solis
Global Theme Lead Climate
Ismène Stalpers
Country Director
Ha Tran Thu
Team Leader
Hiwote Teshome
Energy Sector Lead and Power for Food Partnership Lead in Ethiopia
MD Golam Shaon
Public Finance Advisor
Koen Peters
Business Development Officer DFCD Project