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Company: aDryada
Industry: ARR carbon project development
Region: Colombia (Orinoquia / Vichada)
Use Case: Strengthen project design and maximise commercial value ahead of major offtake round
Sylvera solutions used: Pre-Issuance solution, Continuous Improvement Report
Results: Pre-Issuance Rating of A, strengthening the commercial case for aDryada's call for offtake
Background
For carbon project developers, the challenge is not just building a high-quality project, but also making it easy for buyers to recognise and act on that quality.
Buyers are increasingly competing for a limited pool of high-integrity carbon projects, while expectations around diligence, transparency and long-term delivery continue to rise.
aDryada and BaumInvest have developed the Yopo Ecosystem Restoration Project in Colombia. This large-scale native species reforestation initiative is designed to deliver durable, high-integrity ARR carbon removals alongside significant environmental and social co-benefits.
The project will restore 18,000 hectares between 2026 and 2030, with the potential to extend to 40,000 hectares, and is expected to remove approximately 10.8 million tonnes of CO₂e over a 40-year crediting period.
The challenge
In June 2026, aDryada and commercialisation partner GO2 Markets launched a structured call for offtake for one million ARR carbon removal credits from the Yopo project.
See more information about the Yopo project and express interest for early access here.
The process was designed to address the challenge that often slows corporate buyers when procuring with high-integrity carbon credits - offering an investment-grade data room, a defined commercial timeline, scheduled technical Q&A sessions, full Sylvera rating report, field visits, and standardised documentation to streamline diligence workflows.
For corporate buyers, confidence that the project is what it claims to be, and that an independent expert has validated that claim, is vital.
"Our aim is to relieve the carbon removals procurement burden, while helping build the commercial architecture and documentation needed to make high-quality credits accessible to a broader group of serious corporate buyers."
— Gilles Dufraisse, Business Development Manager, aDryada
The solution
Sylvera's Pre-Issuance assessment applies the same integrity framework used across all post-issuance ratings, evaluating projects across four core pillars: carbon accounting, additionality, permanence, and safeguarding & co-benefits.
Stage 1: Initial Pre-Issuance assessment - BBB
Sylvera's first evaluation of the Yopo Restoration Project No.1 returned a BBB assessment. The project demonstrated strong performance in additionality and permanence. However, residual risks in carbon accounting held the assessment below its potential, driven by the project's static baseline approach, leakage monitoring methodology, soil organic carbon methodology, and specific conversion factor choices.
Stage 2: The Continuous Improvement Report
Sylvera's Pre-Issuance solution goes beyond a rating. The Continuous Improvement Report translates assessment findings into a structured action plan. Specific, prioritised recommendations for each pillar give developers a clear line of sight from their current rating to a materially stronger one.
The Yopo project was originally designed in compliance with the Gold Standard A/R Methodology 2.1., thereby meeting the applicable requirements of a recognized high-quality certification standard. Following the specific feedback received from Sylvera, BaumInvest’s certification team acted on these recommendations and voluntarily implemented selected enhancements that go beyond the current methodological requirements and add further rigor to project implementation and monitoring. These enhancements include a dynamic baseline approach, leakage belt monitoring, remote sensing technologies, the exclusion of generalized soil organic carbon pools, and increased region- and species-specificity of conversion factors. While these elements are not yet required under the current methodology, they are expected to be reflected in the forthcoming update of the Gold Standard STARR Methodology.
Stage 3: Final Pre-Issuance assessment — A
Following implementation of the Continuous Improvement recommendations, the revised project was re-evaluated. The Pre-Issuance Rating issued was A. This places the Yopo project among a select group, with only 19% of ARR projects globally, and 17% in Latin America, achieving an A rating or above by Sylvera.
The initial assessment provided clear feedback and supported our decision to already implement methodological improvements beyond current standards. Our certification team was able to clearly prioritize these methodological aspects, with the additional objective of achieving an even stronger rating.
— Dr. Anja Nölte, Head of Forestry & Certification, BaumInvest
The results
Procurement friction reduced
For buyers engaging in aDryada's call for offtake process, a Pre-Issuance A rating gives procurement teams - including those without extensive in-house carbon expertise - the independent signal they need to engage and advance.
Offtake conversations accelerated
With the rating available on aDryada and GO2 Markets' dedicated Yopo landing page alongside a full investment-grade data room, potential buyers enter the commercial process with a credible quality signal already validated.
A replicable framework for the pipeline.
The improvements made through the Pre-Issuance process can inform the development approach for subsequent projects, including a potential extension of Yopo project in the same Vichada region.
"The independent validation of a Pre-Issuance A Rating does a lot of good work for us. For buyers who don't have large internal carbon teams, it removes one of the biggest friction points in the procurement process. They can engage with confidence from day one."
— Gilles Dufraisse, Business Development Manager, aDryada
About aDryada
aDryada is a nature-based infrastructure operator focused on structuring large-scale restoration assets as long-duration, investment-grade natural infrastructure. By applying the governance, financing structures and contractual certainty typically found in infrastructure assets, aDryada enables institutional investors to finance capital-intensive ecosystem restoration while creating a reliable supply of high-integrity carbon removal credits. aDryada's portfolio spans large-scale projects across Africa, Latin America and Asia, representing a pipeline of approximately €1 billion in structured project value.
The Yopo project is jointly developed by aDryada and BaumInvest, a forest restoration specialist with nearly 20 years of experience and over 6,600 hectares already planted in the Vichada region. GO2 Markets, a Berlin-based energy and climate solutions brokerage, serves as commercialisation partner, managing the structured call for offtake process and connecting the project with corporate buyers through a dedicated platform.
See more information about the Yopo project and express interest for early access here.
