Jord at the Nordic Climate Finance Summit: from impact to investability

On 9–10 September 2026, the Jord team travelled to Oslo, Norway, for the Nordic Climate Finance Summit 2026. The summit is the region's flagship climate finance event. It brings together leaders from climate finance, government and corporate sustainability to speed up progress towards global net zero through carbon and capital markets.

We spent two days meeting investors, partners and decision-makers. Throughout, we came back to one question: what does it take for regenerative solutions to attract capital at scale?

Conversations that move things forward

Two days in Oslo meant many conversations with the people shaping climate finance in the Nordics and beyond.

Much of the summit's value happened away from the stage. At our booth, Diego Medina, Chief Financial Officer and Head of ESG, and Eva Teekens, Chief Commercial Officer, met investors and partners who shared a common interest: finding climate solutions that deliver impact and hold up as investments.

From fragmentation to function

On the second day, the conversation moved to the main stage, and to one of the summit's most pressing questions: how do regenerative opportunities become credible, investable markets?

The session opened with a keynote by Lloyd Le Page, followed by the panel From Fragmentation to Function: Building the Infrastructure for Regenerative Markets. It explored what needs to come together across capital, evidence, governance, markets and execution for regenerative markets to become investable and scalable.

Our Chief Commercial Officer, Eva Teekens, joined the panel alongside:

• Lloyd Le Page, Chairman, Sarnian Group
• Sharon Rubin, COO, Eretz Angels
• Jens Böhme, CEO, Nature Development Company
• Nito Simonsen, Co-founder and CEO, ClimatePoint

Erika Johansson, PhD, Founder and CEO of Fellow Future, moderated.

The panel started from a provocative question: what if the climate finance gap is not mainly a shortage of capital, but a shortage of investable ways to use it?

There is no shortage of regenerative projects with strong environmental outcomes. But being impactful is not the same as being investable. Impact alone does not create demand. It does not guarantee revenue, the ability to deliver, or a business model that can take in capital and pay it back. If regenerative solutions are going to scale, they need to get better at meeting what capital requires.

The other side of the equation matters just as much. Capital needs to get better at recognising what risk actually is.

Eva argued that we should not only ask what a climate solution replaces, but also what it becomes dependent on. A solution might cut emissions while creating new exposure to feedstock, supply chains, geography, subsidies, natural resources or a single market. Those dependencies are not ESG considerations that sit next to the financial analysis. They are part of the investment analysis.

Why this matters for Jord

For us, the discussion in Oslo was not abstract. It describes the challenge we work on every day.

On the same day, Eva pitched Jord's solution to an audience of investors. The panel's thinking is at the heart of what we are building. Our environmental outcomes matter: restoring degraded land, removing carbon and reducing dependence on fossil fuels. But they do not replace a commercial model. We produce a renewable fuel that industrial customers need, and that commercial demand is what gives the environmental side of our work a path to scale.

The same thinking applies to finance. Different stages and risks call for different kinds of capital. The challenge is not always finding an investor. Sometimes it is matching the right capital, risk, timeframe and commercial model.

Perhaps that is the infrastructure regenerative markets need most. Better commercial models on one side. Better recognition of resilience on the other. And financial structures that can connect the two.

We would like to thank the Nordic Climate Finance Summit, our fellow panellists, and everyone who stopped by our booth or joined the conversation. We look forward to continuing it.

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