SNCC Services

Strategy Consultation:

If you are anticipating a carbon management project, SBC can assist you by providing expert evaluations of greenhouse gas market positions and strategies. Our goal is to maximize the multiple benefits of projects while also maximizing revenue generation. SBC can help you determine whether or not a carbon program is appropriate to meet your management objectives.  In addition to organizational consultation, SBC would be available to strategically:

• Provide training and presentations to Boards of Directors and other interested parties

• Work on conservation easement language to ensure compliance with protocols

Project Finance Consultation:

SBC can provide research and analysis to advise you on the appropriate entry point and evaluate differing greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies. This approach can help clients increase value, reduce risks, and assess the appropriate process and certification protocols to meet their needs. SBC can also provide access to a network of potential funding sources for project development. We specialize in an individualized approach that assists landowners in attaining efficiencies necessary to maximize the value of their carbon reducing activities.  Activities related to assessing the value of your forest property on the carbon market include:

• Determination of project type and eligibility of forest lands

• Assessment of financial feasibility of starting and completing the project, taking into account current and future market values, project sizes, and other pertinent tasks.

• Leverage of funding from other SBC resources and grants to help with project starting costs.

• Aggregation of regional projects to reduce risk and costs to individual landowners

New Methodologies:

SBC specializes in carbon reduction strategies that pioneer new methodologies or project types designed to “layer” or aggregate ecosystem service benefit valuation on individual properties.  Projects developed and managed by SBC will provide landowners with:

• Value added offsets which provide a plethora of co-benefits, increasing value on the market and to the buyers.

• Funds to initiate and maintain a healthy forest management regime, in perpetuity.

• Locally sourced offsets which provide a visible benefit to the Sierra Nevada region, environmentally, socially, and financially

Project Development:

SBC has national and international contacts and sources for funding, coupled with in-house expertise on project management.  SBC specializes in assisting with project development using local professional contractors for forest carbon inventories and management planning. We can assist with calculations of risk and reward, help develop your financial pro forma, and potentially provide limited capital for your project.  Project development services also include:

• Development of a project that meets specific standard requirements and recommendations: project type and description, baseline, additionality, permanence and buffers, leakage assessment and avoidance, third-party verification

• Assistance with coordination and oversight of required inventory of all required carbon pools

• Assistance with coordination and oversight of certification process necessary to meet requirements of third-party verification, ensuring that the credits are real, additional, accurate and permanent.

• Registration of certified offsets

• Assistance with annual monitoring and recertification

• Assistance with the development of a forest management and monitoring plan

Marketing & Brokerage:

SBC can use our unique knowledge of carbon markets and network of professionals to assist buyers and sellers of carbon credits.  We analyze needs and risks, assess strategies for sale, and connect buyers and sellers to unique projects which can leverage benefits to meet the needs of customers and the region.  Using these resources, SBC can help you to:

• Locally market and broker the credits as “value-added offsets” to attain the best prices and terms for Sierra Nevada landowners

• Work with each landowner to define a specific strategy for selling offsets in a manner which provides the greatest benefit to both the buyer and the seller.

• Match seller with buyers interested in purchasing and retiring tons, rather than wholesalers looking to find the lowest price and resell purchased tons on the market.