ADRYADA
aDryada développe et finance des projets de reforestation et de restauration de la biodiversité dans le monde entier.
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Lobbying Activity
Response to EU vision for enhancing global climate and energy transition
11 Sept 2025
In the African context in particular, one structural challenge largely explains the gap between ambition and delivery regarding the global climate and energy transition: the survival cycle. Despite existing initiatives supported by the European Commission to help increase private investments in climate transition, carbon sinks restoration and improvement, aDryada and its partners AETS see that a lot of wind, waste to energy and NBS (large-scale reforestation) projects remain stuck in their preliminary phase (examples in Côte d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Gabon, Nigeria, Ghana, etc.). They still do not have the resources to cover the long list of preparatory operations that are required before private capital can step in. They also lack climate-finance skills so that they comply with international standards (examples in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Togo, Rwanda, Central African Republic, South Africa etc.) In view of this observation, the European Commission could Create new financial tools and resources or redesign existing ones - such as guarantees and technical assistance provided to DFIs to scale up investments in restoration /reforestation, NBS, small scale energy or regenerative agriculture - so that they focus on financial support to early stages development phases of projects. This would reduce a major bottleneck for more bancable and ready to invest climate and nature projects in Africa in the coming years. Support African countries in defining carbon regulations that are favorable to private national and international investments in climate-friendly projects, especially in those creating large-scale carbon sinks. Initiating such a virtuous circle would allow a large number of African countries to reach the conditional part of their climate targets.
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