Sistema.bio has announced the financial close and launch of FarmCarbon. This is a new carbon finance vehicle designed to channel global climate capital directly to smallholder farmers adopting biogas technology.
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The first close of the facility amounts to US$53 million, with backing from major institutional investors including BNP Paribas Asset Management (through its Alts platform), British International Investment (BII) and Shell Foundation.
FarmCarbon is expected to finance over 90,000 biodigesters globally. This is expected to allow farmers to capture and destroy methane from livestock waste. The initiative is projected to deliver over 9 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent reductions.
According to Sistema.bio CEO Alexander Eaton, the platform builds on 15 years of deployment across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and now scales its impact by integrating carbon finance directly into farmer economics.
“FarmCarbon takes this proven solution and makes it accessible at an even larger scale—paying the economic benefits of carbon credits forward to farmers, and empowering them to co-invest in energy, productivity, health and climate outcomes on their own farms,” he added.
Similarly, Holger Rothenbusch of BII emphasized the role of catalytic capital in mobilizing private investment into underserved markets, while Jonathan Berman of Shell Foundation noted the model aligns farmer income, investor returns, and climate goals.
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