“Over the years we’ve invested significantly in our field data team - focusing on producing trusted ratings. While this ensures the accuracy of our Ratings, it doesn’t allow the scale across the thousands of projects that buyers are considering.”
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Divya Krishnan, Sales Engineer and Malavika Prasanna, Policy Associate, hosted a live demo exploring the various policy-centred features available on the Sylvera platform.
In this recap, we break down these specific areas and use cases, showing how carbon market stakeholders can leverage project-level and country-level insights, plus market data and methodology details, to help stay ahead of policy risk.
Carbon Market Convergence
This convergence refers to the ability to use a single carbon credit across both voluntary and compliance markets, creating downstream effects on standards, integrity requirements, demand patterns, supply dynamics, and pricing structures.
The key questions driving market participants today center on understanding the current policy risk landscape, learning how to navigate these complexities, and mapping potential sources of demand for individual credits as emerging demand signals enter the market.
Sylvera's platform provides insights into these critical use cases, with additional exploration of what this convergence means for demand, supply, and pricing.
Market Commentary: Real-Time Policy Intelligence
Sylvera’s Market Commentary feature is the centralized hub for carbon market updates and intelligence. This feature pulls in all key headlines from sources like Carbon Pulse and QC Intel, and crucially provides Sylvera's detailed analysis on each story through insights from the expert policy team. This contextualises individual news items within broader market trends and developments.
A practical example shows how an article about a Singaporean project developer working with Rwanda to develop Article 6.2 projects connects to larger patterns, cementing Rwanda's position as a key partner for Singapore under Article 6.2.
Country Profiles: Geographic-Level Policy Assessment
Sylvera’s Country Profiles help buyers and sellers understand country-specific risks through key risk indicators including delivery risk, utility risk, reputational risk (including human rights considerations), and cost risk associated with project development fees and requirements.
Rwanda's profile, for example, demonstrates relatively strong Article 6 readiness, ranking among the top three countries in Africa for host country preparedness. The country shows robust institutions, existing Article 6 agreements, and authorized Letters of Authorization (LOAs).
Another example is Indonesia. Since 2022, Indonesia's policy landscape has undergone significant changes, requiring continuous updates and analysis from Sylvera's policy team. The platform demonstrates how policy changes are tracked over time, showing when updates occurred and how they impact each risk pillar - delivery risk, utility risk, and others.
This monitoring is essential for understanding how evolving domestic policies, such as Indonesia's domestic registry development, create new considerations for international carbon credit development and validation processes.
A key feature of the Sylvera platform demonstrates how country-level policy risks flow down to individual project Ratings. Using the Katingen project in Indonesia as an example, the integration shows how broader policy developments translate into project-specific considerations.
An "on-watch" notice highlights Indonesia's changing regulatory landscape, including domestic registry establishment and ongoing approval processes, directly connecting macro-level policy trends to micro-level investment decisions.
The Sylvera Project Catalog
Sylvera's comprehensive Project Catalog contains over 22,000 projects from nearly 20 registries, including major platforms like Verra, Gold Standard, American Carbon Registry, Plan Vivo, and ServCarbono. The catalog presents credits from independent carbon standards increasingly serving roles across Article 6 markets, compliance schemes, and various combinations of voluntary, compliance, international, and domestic market segments.
The Project Catalog has visibility across the tried and tested carbon standards and methodologies being adopted across different market frameworks, with cross-market eligibility assessment increasingly critical for project developers and investors.
The Project Catalog can filter by compliance scheme eligibility mapping, starting with the California and Washington cap-and-trade systems. Of the 22,000 projects in the database, approximately 588 qualify for California's system, demonstrating how specific regulatory requirements dramatically narrow eligible supply. This feature addresses a critical market gap - there is no other one-stop shop providing comprehensive project databases with cross-market eligibility assessment.
Sylvera is actively expanding coverage to include South Africa's carbon tax and Singapore's carbon tax, reflecting the growing number of compliance schemes accepting carbon credits globally.
CORSIA Eligibility and LOA Integration
CORSIA eligibility presents a complex assessment challenge since no publicly available list identifies eligible projects. Sylvera's internal assessment considers multiple factors including methodology exclusions, project types, carbon standards, project start dates, and crediting periods as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
The platform provides clear eligibility indicators while noting the critical caveat that CORSIA first phase eligibility requires authorization and corresponding adjustment under Article 6.2.
The recent introduction of LOA tracking responds to growing market activity around Letters of Authorization. Examples include a Laos water purifier project and cookstove projects that are both CORSIA-eligible and already have LOAs covering CORSIA as an eligible use case. While corresponding adjustments remain limited, the platform will scale to include this data as it becomes available.
Opportunity Mapping: Multi-Market Access Strategy
The platform's approach to eligibility mapping differs fundamentally from risk assessment - it focuses on opportunity identification for project originators and investors. The goal is creating a one-stop shop where users can maximize potential across multiple markets or maintain multiple options for individual projects. If a project isn't eligible for Article 6, users can quickly assess VCM access, CORSIA eligibility, or South Africa's carbon tax compatibility.
This opportunity-focused approach addresses the evolving reality where different carbon markets increasingly interact, and the same carbon project may make sense across multiple regulatory frameworks.
The platform extends beyond CORSIA to include other key accreditations like the Integrity Council's Core Carbon Principles (CCP), with 144 projects eligible to supply CCP-approved credits. Users can combine filters to identify projects meeting multiple criteria - for example, 73 projects carry both CORSIA first phase and CCP tags.
Additional planned integrations include Verra's Community Climate and Biodiversity (CCB) Standard, building toward comprehensive "super credit" identification across all relevant market tags and eligibility criteria.
Methodology Profiles
Methodology Profiles provide deeper analysis of market acceptance patterns across different regulatory frameworks. These profiles examine methodologies' eligibility across CORSIA's pilot phase, first phase, and CCP requirements, while also covering domestic schemes like Singapore's carbon tax.
Using Gold Standard's clean cooking methodology as an example, the platform shows methodology-level eligibility while flagging implementation limitations - such as Singapore's additional geographic restrictions limiting eligible credits to Ghana and Papua New Guinea projects only.
Future Policy-Related Development Roadmap
Upcoming platform enhancements include:
Project Catalog - Compliance schemes and Article 6 attributes
Expanded coverage of compliance schemes
Filters for LoA uses
Country Profiles - Additional Article 6 readiness indicators
LOA quality assessment
Reporting and transparency
Market data - Price, demand, and supply modeling
Modeling price, demand and supply for key markets, including domestic compliance schemes
Building on the CORSIA scenario modeling report published recently
Summary: How can the Sylvera platform help navigate the policy landscape?
Policy risk intelligence with tracking of CORSIA phases, Article 6.4 developments, and country-level regulatory changes that impact project eligibility and market demand
Integrated eligibility mapping that connects policy requirements to project ratings, showing you exactly which assets meet evolving compliance standards and buyer criteria
Regulatory demand signals that help you anticipate where policy changes will concentrate buyer interest by sector, geography, and methodology type
Policy-quality-price integration linking regulatory compliance, Sylvera ratings, and market premiums so you can make risk-adjusted decisions across the entire policy landscape
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