Carbon Project Developers and Sylvera
Project developers help deliver the climate, nature, and social impacts central to the promise of the carbon markets. We can’t get to net zero without developers.
Sylvera rigorously assesses the quality of individual projects from afar, but no one knows the specifics of a project quite like the project’s developer. That’s why we operate an in-depth engagement process. Read more below
Engaging with Sylvera in the rating process will help showcase your projects to the largest buyers and investors in the market.
Our clients trust our ratings and data to form the foundation of their due diligence when both investing and purchasing within voluntary carbon markets.
Developer Testimonials
“FORLIANCE values the cooperation with Sylvera, whose project ratings greatly enhance market credibility. They truly take the time to understand each project’s uniqueness. The cooperation with Sylvera helps us improve our work and contributes to a high integrity VCM, where buyers can make informed purchase decisions.”
“Our partnership with Sylvera has proven to be an invaluable asset, elevating our approach to project development through enhanced transparency, profound insights into performance analysis, and strategic market positioning. We strongly believe that this meticulous rating process has been providing valuable insights, having empowered us to position our projects strategically, enhancing their visibility and attractiveness to potential partners and investors.”
“We’re pleased to work with Sylvera as their independent analyses of projects we develop helps to build trust in a market that is still very opaque. The interactions that we have with the Sylvera team enables us to ensure that the high level of quality and integrity that we pursue in our portfolio is validated externally. And we are glad that our feedback on their findings enables Sylvera to improve their systems and outputs.”
How we assess projects
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Project Developer Engagement Process
Project Developer Engagement Process
1. To start a new Rating or update an existing Rating, we first contact the developer, request the most up-to-date project boundary information, ask initial questions, and answer any questions the developer may have.
2. We request any further information or clarification required, such as detailed financial models, evidence of activities occurring, new documentation, etc, and a general update on the state of the project.
3. Our Ratings Team applies our ratings framework to analyze all of the developer-provided information alongside all publicly available information to produce the final Rating.
4. Provided the developer has engaged with us in good faith throughout the rating process, we share the Rating, allowing a window of time for feedback to be considered before publishing.
5. Under certain circumstances or following significant events occurring in the project, we may need to review or update the Rating. In these instances, we will reach out to the project’s developer to understand more.
For the easiest engagement, developers should: ensure their contact details on the registry are up-to-date, project boundary files and documentation are present and correct on the registry, and become familiar with the above processes.
Post-Publication Engagement Process
1. After publication, the project developer can continue to offer additional data and information to be considered in our Rating.
2. We’ll aim to respond promptly to any questions or feedback and take the provided extra feedback and information into account where appropriate.
3. If the developer has raised a grievance, we aim to notify of the outcome within 30 days of receiving the information necessary to assess the grievance.
Our Independence
We abstain from transaction benefits to maintain integrity and independence.
With proper guardrails, we ensure our ratings, data and insights are always independent and free from external influence, no matter who we are helping and how.
Read our Proponent Engagement Policy for more information. We are always open to improving our processes. Please reach out to us at projectratings@sylvera.io if you have any feedback or questions.
How we use your information
Most of the information needed to produce a Rating is available publicly. However, we may need additional information or clarifications.
In these instances, we often engage under confidentiality agreements so that the developer feels comfortable discussing their project openly.
We store any shared information confidentially. In most cases, if we need to refer to any information in the published Rating, we will ask for permission or confirmation to include before publishing.
However, to uphold our independence, we reserve the right to refer to any information that significantly shapes the Rating.
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