Project Screenings

Our team brings extensive experience in preparing rigorous screening reports that evaluate the reputational risks associated with carbon-offset projects, serving both prospective purchasers and organisations that have already acquired credits.

While working together at SilviCarbon, we assessed a range of project types for potential buyers, including a blue-carbon initiative in Pakistan and an afforestation, reforestation and revegetation (ARR) project in Laos, among others.

Because our clients were primarily interested in carbon-dioxide removal (CDR) projects, each report focused exclusively on CDR and examined:

• Whether each credit genuinely represents the physical removal of one metric tonne of CO₂

• Conformity with the IPCC definition of anthropogenic CDR

• Reversal risk

• A broad set of additional reputational factors, including:

• Additionality and double-counting safeguards

• Programme governance, registry robustness and VVB performance

• Vintage considerations

• Community, biodiversity and wider environmental impacts

• The nature of the mitigation activity

• Corruption exposure, forced-labour or human-rights issues

• Negative media coverage

• Stakeholder entities

• Third-party assessments (i.e. by rating agencies)

Each report concludes with a summary table that balances positive and negative reputational indicators and delivers a clear opinion on whether the advantages outweigh the risks.