Climate and impact evidence for decisions that hold up.

Independent advisory on impact assessment, climate finance and climate policy, backed by my own impact assessment platform, for organisations working across Europe, Africa and the MENA region.

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Where the work has happened, placed by latitude A meridian from Vienna at 48.2 degrees north, through Casablanca at 33.6 north, Dakar at 14.7 north and Freetown at 8.5 north, across the equator to Dar es Salaam at 6.8 degrees south and Antananarivo at 18.9 south. 0° Vienna 48.2° N Casablanca 33.6° N Dakar 14.7° N Freetown 8.5° N Dar es Salaam 6.8° S Antananarivo 18.9° S

What I do

Every engagement starts from the same place: a clear, defensible picture of emissions, risks and impact. What you do with it depends on the decision in front of you.

Impact assessment

Greenhouse gas accounting, climate risk and vulnerability assessment, and impact measurement across avoided emissions, adaptation, social outcomes, biodiversity and circularity. For companies, delivered as the Strategic Sustainability Review.

How the review works

Impact platform

My own digital platform for climate and impact assessment, built on leading market standards and anchored on the EU VSME standard. It makes every assessment structured, comparable and traceable.

About the platform

Climate finance

Carbon market feasibility, sector and NDC financing strategies, blended finance structuring and investor readiness.

Climate policy

Policy analysis and advisory on NDC implementation, sector decarbonisation and climate adaptation, and on the policy frameworks that help climate innovation reach scale.

How I work with you

For international organisations and development partners

I work with UN agencies, development finance institutions, bilateral agencies, EU programmes and NGOs as an individual expert, a roster member or a consortium partner. When an assignment needs a wider team, I bring one together through a trusted network of specialists.

  • Individual expert assignments
  • Expert rosters and framework contracts
  • Consortium roles in tenders
  • Team mobilisation with partner firms

Working languages: English, French, Arabic and Spanish.

For companies

Customers, lenders and investors are asking more questions about climate performance. If you need clear answers, or want sustainability to shape your strategy rather than sit beside it, the Strategic Sustainability Review gives you a structured starting point.

  • Strategic Sustainability Review
  • Greenhouse gas calculator
  • VSME reporting
  • Impact assessment and forecast

See how the review works

The Strategic Sustainability Review

A structured review of where your company stands, what climate change means for your operations, and where your strategic initiatives can create the most value and impact. It ends with a sustainability strategy we define together.

  1. Where you stand today

    Your greenhouse gas emissions, and a complete picture of the sustainability initiatives already under way in your company.

  2. Climate risk and vulnerability

    The climate risks your company and its operations face, and how exposed you are to them.

  3. Impact potential

    An assessment of your strategic initiatives for their potential in avoided emissions, climate adaptation, social impact, biodiversity and the circular economy.

Your sustainability strategy

Defined together with your leadership team and grounded in the evidence from the three stages.

The review runs on my own impact assessment platform (see below). The platform handles the data. The judgement stays with people who understand your business.

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The platform behind the assessments

I built my own digital platform so that every assessment follows the same rigorous method, and every result can be traced back to its data and assumptions. It is built on leading market standards and anchored on the EU Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for SMEs (VSME).

The tools it runs on

Climate risk and vulnerability assessment

Assesses the physical climate risks a site, an operation or a portfolio faces, and how exposed it is to them.

Greenhouse gas calculator

Greenhouse gas accounting for an organisation or a project, reported in tonnes of CO₂ equivalent.

VSME reporting

Reporting built on the EU Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for SMEs, so results arrive in the format your stakeholders already read.

Avoided emissions

Quantifies the emissions an initiative avoids against its baseline, in tonnes of CO₂ equivalent.

Climate adaptation impact

Measures what an initiative contributes to climate adaptation for the operations and communities it serves.

Circularity impact

Measures circular economy performance across material use, reuse and recovery.

What it means for clients

  • Consistent results you can compare across sites, projects or portfolio companies
  • Transparent assumptions that stand up to review by funders and auditors
  • Outputs aligned with the reporting standards your stakeholders use

For institutions

If you assess a portfolio of projects or companies, for example in a fund, a programme or a supply chain, the platform can be deployed for your portfolio, with my support on method and interpretation.

See the platform in action

Selected work

A selection of assignments across Europe, Africa and MENA. Some clients are described rather than named.

Morocco Senegal Sierra Leone Tanzania Madagascar

Climate innovation accelerators in five countries

EIT Climate-KIC Senegal, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Madagascar and Morocco

As programme lead for ClimateLaunchpad and ClimAccelerator at EIT Climate-KIC, I ran climate innovation accelerators across five countries, from early-stage idea competitions through to structured acceleration for climate ventures.

Morocco Senegal Sierra Leone Tanzania Madagascar

Global Cleantech Innovation Programme, Morocco

UNIDO, funded by the Global Environment Facility Morocco

Morocco's national track of the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme, delivered by UNIDO with funding from the Global Environment Facility, to identify and support cleantech ventures in the country.

Morocco Senegal Sierra Leone Tanzania Madagascar

Climate adaptation innovation clusters

EIT Climate-KIC Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Madagascar

Adaptation innovation clusters connect innovators, businesses, researchers, investors, policymakers and communities around one purpose: building climate resilience through collaboration rather than isolated projects.

Each cluster runs an adaptation and resilience ClimAccelerator for ventures working on problems such as precision farming and resilient seed, alongside Climathons, partnerships with youth organisations, and training and leadership programmes. The aim is that solutions are designed, owned and sustained locally.

Morocco Senegal Sierra Leone Tanzania Madagascar

Cluster Solaire, Morocco

Funded by the World Bank and GIZ Morocco

Co-design of Morocco's solar energy cluster, as co-founder of IDAFA Consulting, on an assignment funded by the World Bank and GIZ.

Institutional experience

EIT Climate-KIC UNIDO GIZ World Bank

Insights

Research and notes on climate finance, impact measurement and sustainable entrepreneurship.

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About

Ayoub Derdabi

Ayoub Derdabi

Independent senior consultant, Vienna

I work at the intersection of climate innovation, sustainable entrepreneurship, impact finance and international development, with a particular focus on Africa and the MENA region.

My career began in investment banking and M&A in Casablanca, followed by strategy and product roles at Lafarge Group Strategy in France and at Samsung Electronics in North Africa and at its Korean headquarters. I then co-founded IDAFA Consulting, where I co-designed Morocco's Cluster Solaire with World Bank and GIZ funding. From 2021 to 2026 I led climate innovation programmes for EIT Climate-KIC across Senegal, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Madagascar and Morocco, and worked with UNIDO on the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme in Morocco.

I also invest my own capital in green innovation. That combination is what I bring to every assignment: an investor's sense of what is fundable, a strategist's sense of what moves an organisation, and a practitioner's sense of what works on the ground.

Education
Doctorate, Prague University of Economics and BusinessMBA, MIT Sloan and SKK GSBMEng, INSA RouenMaster's, ESSEC
Languages
French, Arabic, English, Spanish
Boards
Member of two NGO boards in Morocco
Registration
Registered business consultant in Vienna, Austria

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