Work Highlights
Advisory key work highlights to date include:- Carbon and financial modeling for a private Australian land management corporation leading to a full cost-benefit analysis of becoming accredited under the NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme
- A business case for the creation of carbon credits and associated long-term management of retention liabilities for several forestry companies with commercial plantation operations in Australia
- Identification of ecological assets and potential commercial opportunities for a major landowner in Hawaii and drafting a business and marketing plan detailing requisite steps for product development
- Developing the carbon position and Verified Emission Reduction (VER) product offering for an institutional investor, including carbon quantification, third-party verification, product documentation, marketing & sales efforts and legal arrangements
- Quantitative and qualitative market analysis of the global voluntary carbon market, profiling major carbon buyers and retail sellers
- Feasibility studies and options analysis for forestry project investments
- Analysis of proposed rules for a national emissions trading scheme for the government's ministry of forestry discussing how the scheme could be designed to attract private investment in reforestation