A solution to measure emissions, guide decarbonisation, and unlock climate finance 

The urgency of decarbonising urban mobility is clear, but progress is too often hampered by a critical gap: the lack of real-time, reliable, area-based emissions data. Cities and companies of the mobility sector, from transport operators to international maritime businesses, are expected to cut emissions fast, yet many still rely on estimates rather than evidence. Without trustworthy data, it is harder to target measures, demonstrate progress, and unlock the climate finance needed to scale decarbonisation. 

Everimpact addresses this challenge with a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed to transform data into action. Everimpact’s platform combines satellite and ground-sensor data with traffic and climate model inputs, then applies advanced analytics. The result is real-time emissions and sequestration measurements, certified data, actionable insights for strategic decarbonisation, and the evidence needed to unlock green bonds, loans, and carbon markets. For EIT Urban Mobility, investing in Everimpact means supporting a solution that enables stakeholders across the mobility ecosystem to track, report, and finance their decarbonisation actions.  

Highlights of why we invested in Everimpact 

• From periodic estimations to continuous, certified measurements: Everimpact’s monitoring platform combines inputs from different sources, including satellites and ground sensors, to deploy advanced analytics that deliver real-time, area-based emissions and sequestration data with unprecedented frequency and granularity. This continuous and accurate measurement approach provides the certified evidence needed to demonstrate credible progress and meet increasingly rigorous reporting obligations. 

• Strategic decarbonisation insights for greater impact: beyond monitoring, Everimpact’s proprietary analytics assign emissions to their likely sources, helping stakeholders identify hotspots and prioritise interventions with the greatest impact.  

• Unlocking climate finance: Certified emissions and sequestration data strengthens credibility when accessing green finance mechanisms. Everimpact’s verified evidence makes it easier to secure green bonds, sustainable loans, and carbon credits, accelerating the flow of capital to decarbonisation initiatives. 

• Scaling with the net-zero transition: as cities and companies worldwide commit to net-zero targets, demand for verifiable emissions monitoring is increasing. Everimpact’s SaaS model enables rapid deployment across diverse geographies and activities, from urban areas to international maritime logistics, positioning the platform to deliver the verified evidence that turns commitments into accountable progress. 

• Strong policy alignment: Everimpact is aligned with a policy direction that increasingly rewards verifiable emissions data, supporting the evidence needs underpinning frameworks such as Directive on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD), EU Taxonomy, European green bond standards, and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement mechanisms, turning evidence-based regulatory requirements into opportunities to access climate finance. 

As Peter Vest, Senior Investment & Portfolio Manager at EIT Urban Mobility, highlights:  

“If we want more capital flowing into urban mobility decarbonisation, we need to move from promises to proof. And this is precisely what Everimpact provides: high integrity emissions data that cities, operators, businesses and investors can trust when designing and financing NetZero projects. There are many solutions ‘out there’, but the Everimpact solution taking it one step deeper. We found and still find them best in class.” 

Purpose-driven technology for certified emissions monitoring  

Founded by Mathieu Carlier, Alain Retiere and Jan Mattsson, Everimpact represents a purpose-driven, tech-for-good approach to climate action and sustainable urban mobility. The three co-founders bring over 80 years of combined experience from the United Nations, where they led complex, high-stakes programmes, ranging from satellite-enabled systems to large-scale implementation and climate finance advisory work, including engagement with the Green Climate Fund.  

Supported by a highly experienced team and advisory board with deep expertise across climate science, technology, and sustainable finance, Everimpact values-led approach is reflected in the fact that Everimpact has joined the United Nations Global Compact, committing the company to its guiding principles on human rights, labour standards, the environment and business ethics. 

Emissions monitoring and green finance solutions  

Everimpact’s monitoring solutions span varied cases, including city carbon tracking, high-emitting sites (construction, ports, airports, highways, waste facilities), transport networks, maritime shipping operations, and nature-based solutions. The platform measures real-time GHG emissions (carbon dioxide, CO₂ and methane, CH₄) by combining data from satellites, ground sensors, traffic, weather, climate models and Artificial Intelligence. Everimpact’s proprietary technology assigns emissions to their sources, delivering live impact analysis as a result of its continued area-based monitoring. Results and insights can be visualised in an interactive dashboard that enables stakeholders to track decarbonisation measures performance, identify opportunities and get reliable decision-grade evidence to facilitate access to climate finance. 

Everimpact’s green finance solution serves as a transversal offering, bundled with emissions measurement and impact assessment to help stakeholders access climate finance through certified, verified data. Particularly relevant to urban mobility, Everimpact’s transport network solutions enable operators to measure emissions accurately across mass rapid transit systems, low emission zones, and city-wide networks, helping them track progress against decarbonisation goals and communicate their carbon reduction contribution to stakeholders. A notable city-level deployment: in February 2022, Everimpact installed 75 ground CO₂ sensors across Dijon, making it the world’s first city to track both live air quality and CO₂ emissions in real time, enabling city managers to assess the impact of decarbonisation policies and access climate finance.  

At port scale, Everimpact has recently been awarded a contract by the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, the second-largest port in Europe, to carry out a proof of concept of an integrated emissions monitoring system. The solution combines fixed sensors, drone-based plume sampling, and satellite data, integrated by its AI engine into a continuous, port-wide view of key pollutants including CO₂, CH₄, NOx and SOx. 

Making it count: how monitoring, reporting and verification can unlock climate finance and accelerate the race to net zero 

In the context of the European Green Deal and the global Race to Zero, reliable, high‑resolution emissions data has become a strategic enabler rather than a technical nice‑to‑have. The EU’s goal of climate neutrality by 2050, with steep reductions required by 2030, requires tracking where emissions are generated, how quickly they are falling, and whether investments and policies are delivering results. This is why initiatives such as the CSRD and EU Taxonomy embed detailed disclosure and performance metrics into regulation, helping distinguish genuine transition efforts from greenwashing. 

For cities and companies, this shift translates into an increased demand for high-fidelity, verifiable, and audit‑ready emissions information that can feed directly into reporting frameworks and financing structures. The principle of robust Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) – that is central to the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and embedded in the new ETS2 covering buildings and road transport from 2027 – is embedded across climate policy frameworks. Noticeably, the EU Green Deal increasingly relies on interoperable “green data” infrastructures to support environmental policy and climate monitoring, making consistency and quality of underlying datasets critical. 

For urban mobility specifically, this data imperative is reflected in EU requirements for Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs), which mandate clear objectives, targets and indicators backed by systematic monitoring and evaluation. As 431 urban nodes on the trans-European transport network are now required to monitor and report greenhouse gas emissions from transport by 2027, the need for reliable, continuous monitoring moves from a planning support function to a delivery requirement, underpinning both timely course correction and accountable implementation. 

In this landscape, solutions that enable the move from periodic estimations to robust, continuous and trustworthy measurements do more than help with compliance: they become enablers of credible transition plans, unlock access to green bonds and climate finance, and build the credibility needed to mobilise capital at the speed and scale required for net‑zero urban mobility systems. 

Looking ahead 

EIT Urban Mobility recognises how Everimpact addresses a critical challenge in the sustainability transition: moving from periodic estimates to continuous, certified emissions measurements that stakeholders can trust. This shift transforms decarbonisation assessments from reporting exercises into strategic assets that inform decisions, demonstrate verified progress, and unlock access to the climate finance resources needed to accelerate urban mobility’s path to net zero. 

We look forward to supporting Everimpact as it scales measurement solutions that turn greenhouse gas emissions monitoring and reporting from a compliance burden into a strategic asset to accelerate the path to net zero. 

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This article is part of Why we invested? Series presenting EIT Urban Mobility equity portfolio.