Ecosystem Value Alliance Foundation

Ecosystem Value Alliance Foundation: Rewarding climate protection through investment in forest adaptation

Ecosystem Value Association (eva foundation) is dedicated to enhancing the value of ecosystem services, ensuring that the preservation of natural landscapes benefits everyone, and making conservation economically advantageous. The company achieves its mission by developing scientifically sound, digital, and scalable standards. These standards enable the monetisation of ecosystem services, incentivising sustainable practices and fostering environmental stewardship. One of the foundation’s flagship initiatives is the Forest Climate Standard, which establishes a benchmark for forest quality based on climate resilience and creates tradeable certificates. By selling ecosystem certificates, eva foundation promotes private investments in forest adaptation. Through trading these certificates on the voluntary market, forest owners can earn revenue by leveraging the ecosystem services of their forests. This approach not only supports environmental protection but also fosters economic prosperity by facilitating private-sector investment in climate-resilient forests.

Contact information

Elias Raiser, Value Chain Manager, Ecosystem Value Alliance Foundation (Bonn, Germany)

Type of solution

• Business model innovation
• Certification and traceability
• Forest management and monitoring
• Service innovation

Impact sector

• Carbon markets/carbon farming
• Ecosystem services
• Forest management

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