As biodiversity credit markets seek to organize themselves around common principles, the White Paper published in May 2025 by the World Economic Forum sets out an ambitious framework: 21 High-Level Principles (HLP) to guarantee the quality, integrity and legitimacy of these instruments. But who is capable of implementing them in practice? Effinature certification, operated by IRICE, is already the answer. It anticipates them. And often exceeds them.

The number of technical offers to support decarbonization is multiplying. Combining engineering, financing, works and maintenance, they aim to simplify the energy transformation of industries, local authorities and major projects. But behind this growing integration, a key question remains unanswered: who verifies the real impact of the choices made on ecosystems? At IRICE, our answer is clear: there can be no sustainability without method. There is no method without proof. And there is no proof without an independent third party.

Between 60% and 70% of soils in the European Union today are in poor health. On April 10, 2025, the European Commission, Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on the European Soil Resilience and Monitoring Directive. This text represents a regulatory turning point: for the first time, European soils are the subject of a common legal framework. But this turning point remains theoretical: the text proposes objectives without constraints, tools without methods, obligations without verifiability.At IRICE, we assert a simple position: there will be no soil policy without proof of ecological efficiency. And there can be no proof without reproducible, verifiable, transposable methods.

The World Economic Forum report published at the end of 2023 is unambiguous: biodiversity credits could become a structuring lever in environmental finance. But today, the market remains in its infancy, exposed to strong methodological criticism, and awaiting credible standards. At a time when public and private players are wondering what role they should play, one thing is clear: no credit can exist without a reliable method of measurement, verification and governance. This is precisely what IRICE offers with the Biodiversity Performance Score (BPS) and Effinature certification.

Local initiatives are multiplying to integrate biodiversity into urban planning: 3-30-300 rules, municipal pacts, monitoring platforms. These tools have one merit: they make a collective will visible. But as regulatory pressure intensifies, a question emerges: how can we move from commitment to proof?

Nature in the city has become a matter of course. But as local authorities multiply their commitments, feedback and pilot projects, a central question remains: what methods can guarantee the real ecological performance of an urban project, beyond mere intentions? In a context where urban biodiversity is becoming an ESG evaluation criterion, simple planting is no longer enough. Only enforceable certification can demonstrate what speeches stabilize.