Unlike many rating providers, we maintain our independence by not accepting payments from developers to rate their projects. However, we believe it is critical to engage with developers throughout the rating process to secure additional information required to accurately rate a project and give developers the right of reply and opportunity to provide additional evidence.
It is our goal to rate every kind of carbon projects. Currently, Sylvera rates reducing deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), afforestation, reforestation and revegetation (ARR), improved forest management (IFM), and renewable energy source (RES) projects.
Why? Credibility. Our ratings are created by first developing a proprietary framework for assessing a specific type of carbon project. We develop frameworks based on individual project types, rather than a highly generalized framework, because different projects have a diversity of activities and incentives that need to be assessed in a distinct way to gain in-depth insights into the project’s quality. A general framework, we believe, would not reflect the nuances of individual project performance, resulting in inaccurate ratings and ultimately reducing confidence in carbon projects and carbon markets.
We started rating avoided unplanned deforestation (AUD) REDD+ projects first, because we believe it would give us the most significant immediate impact on the climate. Nature-based credits account for the lion's share of VCMs, with AUD REDD+ accounting for a significant portion.
Check in regularly for updates about the launch of new project ratings on our platform.
Our web platform is available as a subscription, and our API is priced according to the underlying business need. We work with our customers and prospects to create the right packages to suit their needs. This means the costs vary accordingly.
We offer an API that will allow you to incorporate Sylvera data into your platform. Get in touch with us so that we can know more about your specifications.
With a subscription, you can access our ratings through our web-based carbon intelligence platform or an API. Our API serves this data for presentation and analysis on other platforms, such as Xpansiv CBL and Climate Impact X. Want to see our web app in action? Request a demo here.
Yes, we update our ratings quarterly and when significant events occur.
The pricing data in our carbon intelligence platform is from Xpansiv CBL, the largest carbon credit exchange. The price displayed first is the price of the last-traded, latest vintage and we only show pricing data after 2019.
Our ratings offer greater depth, accuracy, objectivity and transparency than other carbon credit ratings providers. We also regularly update our ratings and work on continuously improving our processes. Our team is part of several influential groups and we invest in world-leading research and development. Read more about how we’re different here.
Corporate sustainability leaders, carbon traders, governments and anyone looking for insight into the quality of carbon credits.
Developers that are running high-quality carbon projects can ensure that their projects are commanding a premium price.
A Sylvera carbon credit rating assesses the likelihood that the credits issued by a carbon project have delivered on their claims of avoiding (meaning reducing) or removing of one metric ton of carbon dioxide (tCO2), or other greenhouse gasses (GHGs), measured in CO2 equivalent (tCO2e).
This Sylvera rating is reflected on a scale from highly likely to have delivered on its claims, AAA, to least least likely to have delivered on its claims, D.
A Sylvera rating is a combination of three core scoring pillars: carbon, additionality and permanence.
Alongside each rating, we also make a co-benefits score of the carbon project available. This is an assessment of the biodiversity and community co-benefits of projects. The co-benefits score isn’t included in the Sylvera rating because the primary function of a Sylvera rating is to assess the likelihood that the claimed GHGs have been avoided or removed. We also want to prevent a high co-benefits score from inflating the Sylvera rating of a project that’s underperforming from the perspective of avoiding or removing GHGs.
In addition to a co-benefits score, we also provide all the underlying analysis we used to arrive at a Sylvera rating, as well as extensive commentary about the carbon project and credits analyzed, alongside each rating. We recommend that you only use Sylvera ratings in conjunction with this in-depth information we provide.
Sylvera ratings are updated quarterly and when significant events occur.
Learn more here.
No, we don’t provide certifications for any climate commitments.
No. We don't, and will never, sell credits or receive kick-backs from projects we rate on our platform. This will continue to always ensure our independence and impartiality. An external governance body, composed of independent individuals, also holds us to account.
We believe that in order for VCMs to scale, the market needs independent data verification. Many of the challenges of VCMs arise from an inherent conflict of interest in the broker-led model, where there is a disincentive to provide transparent, up-to-date information on underlying project performance and quality.
Carbon markets are places where carbon credits and allowances are bought, sold and exchanged. There are two general types of carbon markets, those that are mandatory to participate in, known as compliance or regulatory markets, and those that are entered into freely, known as voluntary carbon markets or VCMs. Compliance markets function on a cap-and-trade emissions trading system where units known as “allowances” are exchanged. Voluntary carbon markets function on a free, unregulated market where units known as carbon credits are exchanged. Sylvera’s work focuses mainly on VCMs.
A carbon credit is a tradable unit representing one metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2), or an equivalent amount of another greenhouse gas (GHG), avoided or removed from Earth's atmosphere.
A carbon offset is a name given to a carbon credit when it is retired by an organization to make the claim that it is compensating for its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Sylvera is a remote-first company, with offices in London, Belgrade and more to come. Our team is based all around the world and often attend events across the globe.
Allister Furey and Sam Gill are the founders of Sylvera.
Allister has an MBA from London Business School, and a PhD in computational neuroscience and robotics from University of Sussex, where he focused on optimizing control of wind energy systems. He has worked as a consultant for Bain & Company, as CTO of a leading UK wind energy technology company and venture partner at Entrepreneur First.
Sam started his career working for global law firms, where he advised high-profile asset managers on multi-billion dollar hedge funds and the complex regulation surrounding highly-liquid trading. Wanting to make a more direct, positive impact on people and the planet, Sam moved to Baker McKenzie, where he focused on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) products. It was at this time that Sam first advised on a major carbon offset issuance. This sparked his interest in carbon markets, and he was concerned that the market lacked the necessary infrastructure to allow it to scale quickly and with integrity. He left law to found Sylvera to tackle these issues.
Sylvera is a carbon intelligence platform that helps you evaluate and invest in high quality carbon credits. Our team of experts leverages proprietary data and machine learning technology to produce the most comprehensive and accessible insights on carbon projects. We deliver independent, in-depth and up-to-date project reports and market intelligence through our online platform and API.
Sylvera is a remote-first company, with offices in London, Belgrade and more to come. Our team is based all around the world and often attend events across the globe.
Allister Furey and Sam Gill are the founders of Sylvera.
Allister has an MBA from London Business School, and a PhD in computational neuroscience and robotics from University of Sussex, where he focused on optimizing control of wind energy systems. He has worked as a consultant for Bain & Company, as CTO of a leading UK wind energy technology company and venture partner at Entrepreneur First.
Sam started his career working for global law firms, where he advised high-profile asset managers on multi-billion dollar hedge funds and the complex regulation surrounding highly-liquid trading. Wanting to make a more direct, positive impact on people and the planet, Sam moved to Baker McKenzie, where he focused on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) products. It was at this time that Sam first advised on a major carbon offset issuance. This sparked his interest in carbon markets, and he was concerned that the market lacked the necessary infrastructure to allow it to scale quickly and with integrity. He left law to found Sylvera to tackle these issues.
Sylvera is a carbon intelligence platform that helps you evaluate and invest in high quality carbon credits. Our team of experts leverages proprietary data and machine learning technology to produce the most comprehensive and accessible insights on carbon projects. We deliver independent, in-depth and up-to-date project reports and market intelligence through our online platform and API.
No, we don’t provide certifications for any climate commitments.
No. We don't, and will never, sell credits or receive kick-backs from projects we rate on our platform. This will continue to always ensure our independence and impartiality. An external governance body, composed of independent individuals, also holds us to account.
We believe that in order for VCMs to scale, the market needs independent data verification. Many of the challenges of VCMs arise from an inherent conflict of interest in the broker-led model, where there is a disincentive to provide transparent, up-to-date information on underlying project performance and quality.
Carbon markets are places where carbon credits and allowances are bought, sold and exchanged. There are two general types of carbon markets, those that are mandatory to participate in, known as compliance or regulatory markets, and those that are entered into freely, known as voluntary carbon markets or VCMs. Compliance markets function on a cap-and-trade emissions trading system where units known as “allowances” are exchanged. Voluntary carbon markets function on a free, unregulated market where units known as carbon credits are exchanged. Sylvera’s work focuses mainly on VCMs.
A carbon credit is a tradable unit representing one metric ton of carbon dioxide (CO2), or an equivalent amount of another greenhouse gas (GHG), avoided or removed from Earth's atmosphere.
A carbon offset is a name given to a carbon credit when it is retired by an organization to make the claim that it is compensating for its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Unlike many rating providers, we maintain our independence by not accepting payments from developers to rate their projects. However, we believe it is critical to engage with developers throughout the rating process to secure additional information required to accurately rate a project and give developers the right of reply and opportunity to provide additional evidence.
It is our goal to rate every kind of carbon projects. Currently, Sylvera rates reducing deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), afforestation, reforestation and revegetation (ARR), improved forest management (IFM), and renewable energy source (RES) projects.
Why? Credibility. Our ratings are created by first developing a proprietary framework for assessing a specific type of carbon project. We develop frameworks based on individual project types, rather than a highly generalized framework, because different projects have a diversity of activities and incentives that need to be assessed in a distinct way to gain in-depth insights into the project’s quality. A general framework, we believe, would not reflect the nuances of individual project performance, resulting in inaccurate ratings and ultimately reducing confidence in carbon projects and carbon markets.
We started rating avoided unplanned deforestation (AUD) REDD+ projects first, because we believe it would give us the most significant immediate impact on the climate. Nature-based credits account for the lion's share of VCMs, with AUD REDD+ accounting for a significant portion.
Check in regularly for updates about the launch of new project ratings on our platform.
Our web platform is available as a subscription, and our API is priced according to the underlying business need. We work with our customers and prospects to create the right packages to suit their needs. This means the costs vary accordingly.
We offer an API that will allow you to incorporate Sylvera data into your platform. Get in touch with us so that we can know more about your specifications.
With a subscription, you can access our ratings through our web-based carbon intelligence platform or an API. Our API serves this data for presentation and analysis on other platforms, such as Xpansiv CBL and Climate Impact X. Want to see our web app in action? Request a demo here.
Yes, we update our ratings quarterly and when significant events occur.
The pricing data in our carbon intelligence platform is from Xpansiv CBL, the largest carbon credit exchange. The price displayed first is the price of the last-traded, latest vintage and we only show pricing data after 2019.
Our ratings offer greater depth, accuracy, objectivity and transparency than other carbon credit ratings providers. We also regularly update our ratings and work on continuously improving our processes. Our team is part of several influential groups and we invest in world-leading research and development. Read more about how we’re different here.
Corporate sustainability leaders, carbon traders, governments and anyone looking for insight into the quality of carbon credits.
Developers that are running high-quality carbon projects can ensure that their projects are commanding a premium price.
A Sylvera carbon credit rating assesses the likelihood that the credits issued by a carbon project have delivered on their claims of avoiding (meaning reducing) or removing of one metric ton of carbon dioxide (tCO2), or other greenhouse gasses (GHGs), measured in CO2 equivalent (tCO2e).
This Sylvera rating is reflected on a scale from highly likely to have delivered on its claims, AAA, to least least likely to have delivered on its claims, D.
A Sylvera rating is a combination of three core scoring pillars: carbon, additionality and permanence.
Alongside each rating, we also make a co-benefits score of the carbon project available. This is an assessment of the biodiversity and community co-benefits of projects. The co-benefits score isn’t included in the Sylvera rating because the primary function of a Sylvera rating is to assess the likelihood that the claimed GHGs have been avoided or removed. We also want to prevent a high co-benefits score from inflating the Sylvera rating of a project that’s underperforming from the perspective of avoiding or removing GHGs.
In addition to a co-benefits score, we also provide all the underlying analysis we used to arrive at a Sylvera rating, as well as extensive commentary about the carbon project and credits analyzed, alongside each rating. We recommend that you only use Sylvera ratings in conjunction with this in-depth information we provide.
Sylvera ratings are updated quarterly and when significant events occur.
Learn more here.