AAE | Tailored environmental advice

We pursue a sustainable future

About

We believe in a future sustainable and equitable for all of us.

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Work Areas

Services

We specialize in eleven work areas.

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Oliver Umpierre

Bridging global and local expertise

Team

Key partner in fostering dialogue and collaboration with local stakeholders

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Oliver Umpierre

Services

We provide tailored environmental advice, with a gender-based sustainability lens, to organisations, communities, governments and the private sector.

Adaptation

Promoting adaptation to climate change by providing technical advice for the integration of NbS and EbA into projects

Safeguards

Ensuring social and environmental safeguards are seamlessly integrated into every project phase.

Strategic Planning

Environmental strategy design, covering the entire project cycle from concept and design to monitoring and evaluation

Gender

Mainstreaming gender in the project cycle, reducing risks and closing gender gaps

Climate and Development Finance

Integrating climate considerations into financial products and policies, assessing investment efficiency, and identifying investment gaps

Indigenous Peoples

Engaging and collaborating with Indigenous Peoples and considering indigenous rights, interests and knowledges.

Environmental Management

Supporting the design and implementation projects to ensure compliance with national legislation and international standards

Protected areas

Integrating the role and importance of Protected and Conserved Areas into national strategies and plans.

REDD+

Working on all REDD+ thematic areas. Supporting readiness, project formulation, implementation, consultation, FPIC process, risk analysis and more.

Environmental and Sustainability Law

Ensuring that environmental, sustainability and human rights laws are adequately integrated into our projects.

Urban Ecosystems

The incorporation of natural ecosystems in urban environments is increasingly recognised as essential for the wellbeing of city dwellers.

Team

AAE consists of a team of permanent staff based in our offices in Latin America and Europe, as well as a large network of associated experts which are called upon to design project specific teams.

projects in the past 11 years

different clients worldwide

400

consultants in our global network

Our Projects

For over a decade, we have been leading projects from start to finish for clients across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa.

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Latin America

10/2023

Standardisation of general environmental and social conditions for the different operational credit modalities.

Safeguards

Environmental and Sustainability Law

Ecuador

01/2022

02/2022

Terminal Evaluation: “Safeguarding biodiversity in the Galapagos Islands by enhancing biosecurity and the enabling environment for the restoration of Galapagos Island ecosystem"

Strategic Planning

Uruguay

06/2016

09/2016

Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) plus contingency Plan for the Campo Palomas Wind Farm Project

Environmental Management

We are a key partner generating dialogue and building bridges with local actors

Clients

Our clients range from multilateral organisations and governments to private companies and NGOs.

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Green Climate Fund

Working with the GCF Secretariat since 2019

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650+

Grants analysed

200+

Funded Activities analysed

1500+

logical frameworks analysed

700+

budgets analysed

“The AAE team was able to successfully engage all management, staff and relevant actors in a professional yet amicable manner while acquiring the necessary institutional background required to develop such an important document to guide the organization.”

Project Manager.

Francisco Javier Magaña.

“This is truly a game-changer for us on many levels. This data set (like the others that are part of the remediation exercise) will really help us take our analytics and reporting forward.”

Climate Finance Executive.

Green Climate Fund

“It was a great pleasure for me and the whole DRC team to work with your team and we thank you for the work done with great sacrifice. I hope we will have the opportunity to work together again on another project.”

WWF-DRC.

Eric Lowate, ESSF Coordinator

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