Continuing our Venture Impact Score (VIS) Founder Series, we turn the spotlight to Ahya.
The climate tech company building carbon and sustainability infrastructure for the MENAP region – and tackling one of the most overlooked problems in ESG reporting: data you can actually trust.
Here’s what the Ahya team had to say.
Q: Carbon markets ESG & Environmental Impact Reporting depend heavily on data quality and trust. How does Ahya approach measuring, validating, and ensuring the credibility of impact data for investors and stakeholders?
At Ahya, we leverage proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) models to solve critical data limitations inherent to ESG reporting in the Global South. AhyaAI Data Capture solves for the challenge of unstructured, non-digital data formats, enabling enterprises and value chain partners to scan invoices, ledgers or hand-written notes and convert them to audit-grade emissions data.
For reducing inaccuracies in GHG accounting due to incorrect or unavailable emission factors – common in developing regions – our patented AhyaAI EF Search provides AI-powered tagging and mapping of emission across activities, in-line with global standards.
To drive action leveraging your emissions inventory, AhyaOS Analyse & Reduce provides real-time geotagging, hotspot identification, and reduction pathways to drive business decisions.
Q: Where do you see the biggest disconnect today between how carbon emissions impact is currently reported and how it should be measured in practice?
1. Collecting emissions and impact data at source, in particular for Scope 3, value chain. Scope 3 value chain emissions, which account for 90 to 95 percent of total emissions in certain sectors, remain largely unreported or miscalculated due to an over-reliance on proxy data and estimation techniques that are neither aligned with IPCC methodologies nor the GHG Protocol.
AhyaOS and AhyaAI are precision-engineered for these challenges, ensuring that supply chain and financing activity emissions calculations are traceable to the source with data scoring methodologies that enhance investor confidence.
2. Collecting emissions data at source – particularly Scope 3 value chain emissions, which can represent 90–95% of total emissions – remains a key challenge, with current approaches often relying on proxy data and estimation methods misaligned with IPCC and GHG Protocol standards. AhyaOS and AhyaAI address this by enabling traceable, source-level calculations across supply chains and financing activities, supported by data scoring methodologies that enhance investor confidence.
Collecting ESG data on a yearly basis versus real-time GHG inventories, linked to reduction outcomes.
Enterprises across the region tend to collect data, calculate emissions, and create strategies in alignment with annual reporting timelines.
AhyaOS, Integration Hub enables enterprises to automate data collection from ERP software and utilities in real-time. AhyaOS, Fully Managed Experience (FME) provides a tailored operational model with dedicated support from expert engineers, data, and climate scientists for end to end ESG data automation.
3. Ensuring emissions data is linked to reduction efforts & outcomes
AhyaOS simplifies the process of aligning GHG emissions data to emissions reduction strategy.
Leveraging AhyaOS, Reduce customers’ reduction initiatives are linked back to their emissions trajectory and targets, allowing assessment of real-time impact and decarbonization progress.
Q: What have you learned about building a commercially viable business in a market that is still evolving in terms of standards and regulation?
1. Shaping climate policy in the region
Our climate science, climate policy and carbon markets teams are continuously engaged with regulators in understanding the applicability and methodology of regulatory mandates and ensuring Ahya is at the forefront of shaping climate policy across the region.
We recently engaged with the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) on Federal Decree-Law No. 11 (2024), seeking clarification on MRV, adaptation, and regulatory requirements to create private sector readiness for our clients. In Pakistan Ahya was invited by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination (MOCC&EC) at the inception stage for the national ‘Policy Guidelines for Trading in Carbon Markets’, alongside Haidermota & Co, KPMG, the ADB and Global Green Growth Institute (GCCI). Ahya also participated in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture (MEWA) Regulatory Sandbox, advising on regional sustainability frameworks and capacity building in-line with Saudi Vision 2030.
We have partnered with stakeholder bodies such as the Dubai Chambers of Commerce to deliver workshops on evolving regulations and global standard compliance, equipping enterprises for the net zero agenda.
2. Digital public infrastructure (DPI) for climate mitigation & adaptation
Ahya is actively building DPI for climate adaptation in the MENAP region, supporting governments and public sector entities in establishing national emissions reporting (MRV) and carbon markets infrastructure.
3. Building a dynamic localized model
Our products, at a fraction of the cost of incumbent solutions, reduce the barrier to entry for enterprises of all sizes while providing an end-to-end sustainability software ecosystem tailored to local needs and built on global standards, making the business commercially durable in a market where regulation is still taking shape.
👉 More about how we evaluate impact through the Venture Impact Score (VIS) framework in our White Paper.
