Today, most countries recognize biodiversity to be a key asset: it supports agricultural resilience and productivity, enhances water availability and quality, serves as a source of new medicines, attracts tourism, and, importantly, helps combat climate change. Governments, however, lack funding, covering only an estimated 20% of necessary funds at the international level.

aDryada brings them a global solution including:

• Project identification and management expertise.
• Expertise in carbon markets and Nature-based Solutions (carbon credits) and regulation frameworks.
• Help with achieving their climate targets using transparent contracts (e.g., PPP).
• lnternational investments in the economy.
• Financing.

We believe that large-scale carbon and biodiversity projects should actively involve and benefit local populations. The challenge is translating these principles into actions with tangible outcomes tailored for the local communities. Across our projects, aDryada:

• Considers local people as key partners. Their support is vital throughout the life of the project (from deployment to maintenance).
• Develops targeted agricultural transition programs to meet local needs in “buffer zones” surrounding the protected reforestation area, when applicable.
• Supports, with such structuring activities, the economic development of the areas in which aDryada operates.

All actions are designed to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

A growing number of companies recognize the need to incorporate removal carbon credits into their net zero strategy. To protect their reputation, they are increasingly looking for high-quality carbon credits, rooted in strong and conservative baselines.

In focusing on biodiversity and working closely with local populations, governments, and certification bodies, aDryada’s projects generate such high-quality carbon credits:

• Removal: All our projects sequestrate carbon (carbon sinks) and thus carbon credits generated are removal credits, not avoidance or reduction credits.
• Permanence: Permanence is achieved through long-term contracts with landowners (at least 40 years), close partnership with local people in protecting the restored areas, and a focus on biodiversity which enhances disease and fire resistance and climate resilience.
• Additionality: In the area we restore, we only generate revenues from carbon credits (no harvesting), thus avoiding issues of additionality.
• No double counting: In line with Article 6 regulations, aDryada works with national authorities in countries of operation to ensure carbon credits generated by projects are not double-counted.
• Certification and transparency: All of aDryada’s projects are in the process of being certified by internationally recognized bodies (E.g., Gold Standard and Verra).

In a context where companies and financial institutions are encouraged to demonstrate their contribution to the fight against climate change and protection of biodiversity, investors are looking for attractive nature-based projects.

aDryada offers investors a large pool of “infrastructure-like” projects to invest in, incorporating country and project risk mitigation strategies, a variety of investment vehicles, and high returns. Additionally, the aDryada team has the competence in financial structuring to meet the quality-level expected and required by investors.