Every hectare, a number. Every number, a method.
Syntropica measures the forests of the Alps and Italy's inner areas and states their uncertainty, with satellite monitoring tools and a calculation method based on ISO 14064-2, with a positive validation opinion from an independent verification body.
The number, with its uncertainty.
For companies: forest insetting, with method.
A company with a supply chain, sites or people in a forest territory can promote the management of a forest there, agreed with owners and forestry firms. Syntropica provides the method: it measures the stock, calculates tCO2e with their uncertainty and prepares the documentation. Verification goes through a body chosen by the company, which alone makes the claims. We do not do offsetting.
The Alpine paradox.
A unique ecological heritage, which abandonment turns into a cost.
The Alps are not wilderness: they are an ecosystem infrastructure shaped by centuries of balance between human work and environment. Abandoning places once inhabited produces hydrogeological instability and ecosystem fragility; millions of hectares of forest1 become a cost for municipalities, regions and the State.
Since 1944 Italy has suffered about 358 billion euro in earthquake and landslide damage2. Where ownership is fragmented among many heirs and territories are depopulating, prevention is hardest to justify exactly where it is most needed.
From satellite to report, one dataset.
Satellite and LiDAR imagery, ground sample plots, a procedure based on ISO 14064-2: the same data, processed with the procedures described in the protocol, lead to the same number within the stated uncertainty. Seven steps, from satellite to decision.
SATELLITE · ZOOM · LIDAR · SAMPLE PLOTS · METHOD · REPORT · DECISION
Other starting points.
Municipalities and public bodies.
The forest territory you administer, measured and followed over time, to decide where to intervene first.
Owners.
Knowing what is in your forest is the first step in caring for it. We measure and plan it with you, without your having to give up ownership.
Investors.
A forest calculation method and governance designed to last. The thesis, the state of the work, how the purpose is safeguarded.
Built to last.
Syntropica is the first Italian company born for steward-ownership3: set up from incorporation with articles of association prepared for this purpose. It is a widespread model in Northern Europe for companies built to last: control stays with those who safeguard the mission, even as shareholders change. We are a Società Benefit (Italian benefit company) and our articles of association provide for the possible issue of special shares (class S) for a steward entity, meaning a body that watches over the company's purpose.
BENEFIT COMPANY (SOCIETÀ BENEFIT) · PURPOSE IN THE ARTICLES · SPECIAL SHARES INTENDED FOR A STEWARD ENTITY
Sources
- 1 INFC 2015, Inventario Nazionale delle Foreste e dei serbatoi forestali di Carbonio (Italian National Inventory of Forests and Forest Carbon Sinks): 9.17 million hectares of forest and 1.82 million hectares of other wooded land.
- 2 ANCE-CRESME, Secondo rapporto sullo stato di rischio del territorio italiano, November 2023.
- 3 Steward ownership in Europe: europeanownership.eu