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Everland has announced the appointment of Sylvera as the independent assessment provider for the new portfolio of Indigenous and traditional community-centered forest conservation projects that will be financed through its Indigenous Amazon Outcome Bond initiative.
Sylvera was selected after a rigorous process for its expertise in forest conservation projects, robust framework, and deep understanding of carbon credit buyer quality evaluation. Its selection provides an additional layer of independent assurance for buyers who are considering or participating in the Indigenous Amazon Outcome Bond initiative - and further strengthens the initiative's commitment to transparency, and to ensuring it delivers exceptional climate impact and tangible benefits for communities and biodiversity.
Aligning Private Capital with Indigenous Leadership
The Indigenous Amazon Outcome Bond initiative aims to provide $50 million to launch up to 20 Indigenous and traditional community-centered forest conservation projects in the greater Amazon. This upfront capital will be used to develop projects and implement conservation activities that, if successful, will generate high-integrity carbon credits over the 40-year lifespan of the projects.
Everland has already secured Letters of Intent totaling $160 million from companies seeking to purchase carbon credits from the initiative's portfolio, which is projected to generate $1 billion in revenue over projects’ first 10 years. Indigenous and traditional communities will directly receive the majority of this revenue to invest in their own self-determined goals. For all projects in Brazil, communities will receive at least 70% of all carbon credit revenue.
“Bringing Sylvera onboard reflects the level of visibility and rigor that the most experienced buyers expect,” said Everland’s Executive Chairman, Gerald Prolman. “The Indigenous Amazon Outcome Bond initiative already benefits from rigorous third-party verification and due diligence. Sylvera adds yet another layer of assessment, providing a further external lens focused on quality and risk for every project in the portfolio. With this deeper level of visibility, buyers can invest with confidence, knowing the initiative channels finance toIndigenous and traditional communities who have safeguarded forests for generations -delivering real, verifiable, and equitable climate results while building strong foundations for long-term social and ecological benefits.”
Delivering Confidence Through Independent Assessment
Everland is currently leading a process to identify projects for financing through the initiative. So far, 23 projects representing nearly 90,000 Indigenous and traditional community members across 17 million hectares of pan-Amazonian rainforest have applied. Everland is reviewing applications and conducting due diligence, with project selection criteria based on its industry-leading Quality & Impact framework. Each project selected to move forward will then undergo independent verification under the Equitable Earth Standard.
The partnership with Sylvera announced today further strengthens the initiative through additional independent, analytics-driven evaluation of project quality and risk: Sylvera will provide continuous ratings of projects throughout their lifecycles, with assessments made readily available on the Sylvera carbon data platform. This added layer of assessment offers investors, carbon credit buyers, and stakeholders enhanced insight into how projects perform and scale impact.
"We're committed to applying consistent, evidence-based evaluation to every project in the portfolio," said Allister Furey, CEO and Cofounder of Sylvera. "We applaud the vision behind the Indigenous Amazon Outcome Bond and are honored to support an initiative that leverages independent ratings to strengthen confidence in Indigenous-centered conservation efforts. This represents the kind of rigorous, transparent approach the market needs to scale high-integrity climate finance."
About Everland
Everland is a specialized conservation marketing organization in the climate change mitigation business that exclusively represents the Voluntary Carbon Market's largest portfolio of high-impact, community-centered, forest conservation (REDD+) projects. Through these projects, Everland brings together communities and corporations in common cause to protect some of the world's most important and vulnerable forests.
Learn more: www.everland.earth
