ABOUT US

The Organization for Biodiversity Certificates (OBC) brings together companies, NGOs, and scientific experts around a shared ambition: developing an operational, science-backed, and field-tested certification system designed to reward:
– both the improvement and maintenance of practices with the best possible biodiversity gains by operators, in all ecosystems (forests, agriculture, etc.).
– projects that contribute to National Biodiversity Strategies, fully aligned with the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

We are currently living through the sixth mass extinction with 1 out of 4 species in great danger of extinction.

of the world’s forest cover has disappeared since pre-industrial times.

of wetlands have been destroyed in the last 200 years.

This demonstrates that ongoing actions are ineffective in tackling this major crisis driven by anthropogenic activities.

(source: IPBES, 2019)

Across sectors, public and private actors are taking action to support biodiversity, such as reducing pesticides, restoring wetland networks and planting hedges. But they still face a pressing issue:

How can we measure and account for the real biodiversity gain of these actions, locally, rigorously, and credibly? In the absence of a fit-for-purpose measurement tool, many of these efforts remain invisible, and thus unrecognized and undervalued.

700

billion per year in additional funding is needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030,
according to the COP15 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).

Public funding is critical but insufficient on its own.
Private actors are thus also needed to meet this challenge, they can play a central role by reducing their impacts and investing in nature-positive actions.

Yet today many companies lack a robust and credible mechanism to evaluate, verify and valorize both their negative impact and the local gain of their efforts on biodiversity.

OBC aims to bring an answer to se latest.

While many existing tools evaluate biodiversity with a top-down approach, OBC uses a field-based, bottom-up assessment methodology.
Our model is scientifically validated and designed to reflect the real-world impact of restoration and conservation practices on ecosystems.

OBC is building a credible biodiversity crediting system, inspired by the strengths of the voluntary carbon market but designed to avoid its known pitfalls.
Our approach is anchored in national biodiversity strategies to help structure demand and ensure integrity at scale.

At OBC, we are market-driven by design. Our priority is to define the incentives and rules that will make the biodiversity certificate market scale effectively, without repeating the mistakes seen in other environmental finance mechanisms.
We are learning from carbon markets and public policy tools like payements for ecosystem services to design a system that supports real ecological restoration and channels funding to the most impactful actions.
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NATURE FIRST

Our primary goal is to serve the cause of biodiversity. This will be the main driver behind all our decision-making, especially methodological.

HUMAN TOO

Our market mechanism and methodologies must also be beneficial for people, particularly local communities. Nature and humans do not have to be opposing forces, we can preserve nature in harmony with surrounding communities.

PARTICIPATION

We want to gather a variety of expertise and perspectives in order to collectively develop the best possible mechanism for driving investments into biodiversity.

SCIENCE-BASED

The scientific litterature is our main reference for the construction of our mechanism.

HOLISTIC

We promote a biodiversity mechanism that goes far beyond the financing of certificates, and we will be very careful that the development of our mechanism does not occur at the expense of other essential actions for biodiversity.

Our
Founders

aDryada is a France-based developer of carbon credits projects of high environmental and biodiversity value. Specialized in large-scale reforestation and restoration, aDryada has around 20 projects in the pipeline, with its most advanced ones in Côte d’Ivoire, Brazil, and the Philippines. Its expertise in the voluntary carbon market and the restoration of ecosystems is key to the development of the biodiversity certificates market and the evaluation of biodiverse projects.

Le Printemps des Terres, a mission-driven company, is supporting French farmers in their transition towards sustainable agriculture that enhances soil and water quality, is adapted to climate change, and protects biodiversity. As a powerful actor in environmental restoration in France, it brings OBC its scientific knowledge as well as concrete projects to test OBC assessement tool.

Our
Partners

Carbone 4 is a French independent consultancy dedicated to climate change and biodiversity. They make connections between scientific excellence and the business world, and develop science-based methodologies that help all stakeholders to understand tomorrow’s world and define strategies that ensure durability and resilience in a world subject to a changing climate, a disappearing biodiversity and finite resources.