Four practices, one aim: nature and climate commitments that deliver.
Governance, finance, climate solutions and technical assistance, working as one team and backed by data and responsible AI. Choose the question you are trying to answer.
One path from policy to proof
Most nature and climate programmes fail between steps, not within them: a good policy with no funding, funding with no delivery capacity, delivery with no evidence. Our practices cover the whole path, and clients can enter at any point.
Set the rules, rights and plans.
Make the programme bankable and bring in the money.
Change energy, markets and supply chains on the ground.
Build the capacity to run it and the evidence that it worked.
Forest and Landscape Governance
How do we govern forests and landscapes so that they last?
Policies, rights and conservation arrangements that hold up on the ground.
Talk to this practice →- Forest governance and climate policy. Diagnose governance gaps, shape reform options, and align forest and land-use policy with national climate commitments.
- Landscape biodiversity and conservation. Support landscape planning, conservation arrangements and the integration of biodiversity into land-use decisions.
- Tenure, rights and community inclusion. Design consultation, consent and benefit-sharing processes that communities recognise as fair.
- Multi-stakeholder platforms. Convene government, private sector and civil society around a shared plan and keep it running.
Governance diagnostics, policy and reform briefs, landscape and action plans, and documented consultation processes.
Nature and Climate Finance
How do we get funded, and become investment-ready?
Programmes that funders and investors can say yes to.
Talk to this practice →- Funding proposals and pipeline development. Concept notes, full proposals and pipelines for the Green Climate Fund and other multilateral and bilateral funds.
- Investment cases and blended-finance structuring. Build the case, size the need and match public, concessional and private capital to risk.
- Fiduciary and safeguards readiness. Prepare institutions to meet the standards funders require before the first review.
- Results-framework readiness. Define indicators, baselines and reporting so that results can be verified from day one.
Concept notes and full proposals, investment cases, readiness assessments, results frameworks and funder-ready annexes.
Climate Solutions
How do we change energy, markets and supply chains on the ground?
Practical strategies for the sectors and markets where emissions and deforestation are decided.
Talk to this practice →- Energy transition policy, planning and clean energy access. Support national and local planning for cleaner, more reliable energy, including access for rural communities.
- Carbon markets and ESG strategy. Develop carbon-market strategies and projects that stand up to scrutiny, and ESG approaches that investors and buyers can trust.
- Deforestation-free value chains. Design traceability, due-diligence and sourcing systems with smallholders in mind.
- Market compliance. Prepare producers, exporters and governments for buyer and import requirements, including the EU Deforestation Regulation, without treating any single rule as the whole story.
Sector strategies and roadmaps, traceability and due-diligence designs, compliance gap assessments, carbon and ESG strategies.
Technical Assistance and MERL
How do we get the expertise, and the evidence that it worked?
The right people inside your institution, and proof of what changed.
Talk to this practice →- Institutional capacity assessment and development. Assess what an institution can do today, agree what it needs, and build it through coaching, tools and systems.
- Embedded advisers and on-demand experts. Place specialists inside ministries, agencies and programme units, or call them in for a defined task.
- MERL. Design and run monitoring, evaluation, research and learning systems, including baselines, indicators, impact assessments and adaptive management.
Capacity assessments and development plans, seconded or call-off experts, MERL frameworks and tools, evaluation and impact reports.
Data, digital solutions and responsible AI
Evidence you can trust, systems that last, AI that is accountable.
Geospatial and MRV systems
Mapping, monitoring, reporting and verification for forests, land and carbon, built on data the client owns.
Digital platforms and dashboards
Practical tools for programmes, funds and registries, designed for the connectivity and skills of the people who will use them.
Responsible AI
We use AI to speed up analysis, never to replace judgement. Human oversight, transparent methods and respect for community data rights are the conditions of use.
Wherever AI touches our work, we say so, and a named expert stands behind the result.
Expertise where you need it, in the form you need it
Not every client needs a report. Many need capable people working beside their teams. Choose a mode, or combine them.
Institutional capacity assessment and development
A structured assessment of an institution's mandate, skills, systems and funding, followed by a costed development plan and support to carry it out.
Embedded adviser
A named specialist working inside your institution, aligned to your priorities and reporting lines.
On-demand experts
Specialists called in for a defined task, such as a review, a proposal section or a safeguards check.
Technical assistance facility
M&E manages a facility that matches requests from several beneficiaries with experts and tracks results.
From first question to proven results
Every engagement follows the same four steps, scaled to the size of the mandate.
Diagnose
Understand the decision, the institutions involved and the evidence available.
Design
Shape the policy, programme or investment case with the people who will carry it.
Deliver
Support implementation, from embedded advisers to on-demand specialists.
Demonstrate
Measure, verify and report results so funders and communities can see what changed.
Standards we hold ourselves to
We do not evaluate a programme whose design or delivery we led. Where we build the MERL system, evaluation is carried out by a separate team or an external evaluator.
Communities are consulted before decisions are made, and their rights, knowledge and data are respected.
National and regional experts work in English and French, to the standards funders expect.
We declare any interest that could affect our advice before work starts.
Not sure which practice fits?
Describe the decision you are facing. We will tell you plainly whether we are the right fit, and we will respond promptly.
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