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Feasibility Study For Carbon Projects
We run hard feasibility checks on carbon project ideas before you spend serious money on full design, validation, and registration. That includes baseline and additionality tests, estimated carbon yield, choice of standard and methodology, capex and opex, and a clear view on revenue, costs, and risk. The goal is simple. Either build a credible case and move forward or stop early and save time and capital.
Share your project concept, location, and target standard. We respond with a scoped feasibility review that covers technical, carbon, financial, and commercial questions and sets out next steps, including when the right answer is “do not proceed”.
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Who This Carbon Project Feasibility Service Is For
Target Client Profile
- Project developers and sponsors planning nature based projects such as REDD+, ARR, agroforestry, blue carbon, or soil carbon.
- Industrial and infrastructure owners with methane, process, or energy efficiency projects that may generate credits.
- Municipalities and public entities exploring waste, landfill gas, wastewater, or transport abatement projects with potential carbon revenue.
- Landowners, concession holders, or corporates who want to know if their project can stand up to serious buyer and auditor scrutiny before launching a full program.
Situations That Sit Outside This Service
- Token or retail focused schemes that promise guaranteed returns from unproven carbon assets.
- Projects with no control over land, assets, or emissions sources and no credible path to secure rights.
- Concepts that fail basic additionality tests because they are already required by regulation or fully financed for other reasons.
- Pure marketing plays that treat carbon credits as a badge with no serious intent to deliver real, measurable abatement or removals.
What FG Capital Advisors Delivers In A Carbon Feasibility Study
Technical And Carbon Assessment
- Map the project boundary, activities, and control over land or assets that drive emissions or removals.
- Assess baseline scenarios, additionality, and leakage risk against leading standards such as Verra, Gold Standard, or ART where relevant.
- Estimate potential carbon yield over the crediting period with clear low, central, and high cases based on available data.
- Flag methodology options and key technical gaps that must be resolved before a PDD and validation can proceed.
Financial And Commercial View
- Build simple but defensible financial models that link carbon yield, price ranges, and cost to a project level cash flow view.
- Test sensitivity to carbon price, yield, discount rates, and delivery risk so you see how fragile or resilient the case really is.
- Map potential revenue routes including spot sales, offtake agreements, and pre finance where realistic for the project type and jurisdiction.
- Provide a plain language conclusion on whether the project looks bankable for developers, lenders, and buyers or needs to be re scoped or dropped.
Project Types And Scope We Cover
Nature Based And Land Use Projects
- REDD and REDD+ projects focused on avoided deforestation and forest degradation with clear tenure and governance.
- Afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation projects with realistic planting, growth, and permanence assumptions.
- Blue carbon projects such as mangrove, seagrass, or wetland restoration where data and rights can support credible baselines.
- Agroforestry and soil carbon initiatives where practices, monitoring, and farmer incentives can be tracked and enforced.
Energy, Waste, And Industrial Projects
- Landfill gas and wastewater methane capture, flaring, or energy recovery.
- Clean cooking, biogas, and household energy access projects with verifiable device distribution and usage.
- Industrial fuel switching, process improvements, and energy efficiency projects that meet additionality rules.
- Grid connected renewable energy projects where carbon crediting is still credible under the relevant standard and country context.
Capital And Strategy Support Linked To Feasibility
- Translate feasibility results into investor and lender ready summaries where the project passes basic tests.
- Outline possible capital structures and offtake routes for projects that look strong enough for external funding.
- Identify key de risking steps sponsors should complete before seeking large cheques or long term offtake.
Where We Do Not Focus
- Projects that rely on double counting or claim credits for the same reduction in more than one scheme.
- Concepts built around aggressive marketing or tokens with no credible link to verifiable tonnes.
- Projects with no realistic path to meet current integrity expectations from serious buyers and financiers.
Carbon Project Feasibility Study Process
| Stage 1: Screening And Quick View | We review a short description of the project, site, activities, and revenue goal. At this stage we give a direct view on whether a proper feasibility study makes sense or if the concept is already offside on rights, additionality, or scale. |
| Stage 2: Mandate, Scope, And Data Request | If the project passes screening, we agree a mandate, work scope, fee structure, and timetable. We then issue a targeted data request that covers land or asset control, historical activity, proposed interventions, technical data, and any prior studies. |
| Stage 3: Baseline, Additionality, And Methodology Fit | We test baseline scenarios, additionality arguments, leakage, and permanence risk against relevant methodologies and standards. We identify which methodologies may fit, where the case is weak, and which issues must be corrected before PDD drafting. |
| Stage 4: Carbon Yield And Financial Analysis | We estimate potential carbon yield and build simple project cash flows using price bands and cost estimates. Sensitivities show how the case changes with yield loss, lower prices, delays, or higher operating costs. |
| Stage 5: Feasibility Report And Review Session | We deliver a written feasibility report that covers technical, carbon, financial, and commercial findings, plus a clear yes, no, or conditional view. A review call or workshop walks through the results and answers detailed questions from sponsors and stakeholders. |
| Stage 6: Next Steps And Capital Strategy | Where the project looks viable, we outline next steps such as PDD development, validator selection, and potential funding and offtake routes. Where the project does not reach the bar, we explain why so you can decide whether to redesign or stop. |
Timelines depend on project type, data quality, and how many stakeholders need to provide information. Projects with clear rights and organised records move faster than fragmented or disputed situations.
Inputs And Data Pack For A Feasibility Study
Baseline Eligibility
- Defined project area or asset boundary with documented rights to operate, conserve, or modify activity.
- Initial view on current practices and realistic future scenarios without the project.
- Sponsors with the capacity to implement the project and manage community, technical, and monitoring work.
- Acceptance that a feasibility study may conclude that the project should not proceed in its current form.
Core Data Pack
- Maps, shapefiles, and other spatial data that define the project area and reference regions where relevant.
- Historical land use or operational data, satellite or ground data where available, and any previous assessments.
- High level budgets for project activities, community programs, monitoring, reporting, and verification.
- Information on legal, social, and regulatory context, including any existing concessions, permits, or community agreements.
Indicative Parameters For Carbon Feasibility Mandates
| Typical Project Scale | Most mandates focus on projects that could generate at least tens of thousands of tonnes of CO2e per year over a multi year crediting period. Smaller projects are considered where they sit in a larger program or jurisdictional strategy. |
| Project Types | Nature based, energy, waste, and industrial abatement projects that can work under recognised standards and method frameworks and that can pass basic integrity tests. |
| Regions | Emerging and developed markets where rights, governance, and data availability can support credible baselines and ongoing monitoring. High conflict or highly uncertain governance environments are assessed case by case. |
| Core Outputs | Written feasibility report, carbon yield range estimates, simple project cash flow view, key risks and mitigants, and a clear feasibility conclusion with suggested next steps or stop points. |
| Stakeholders | Project sponsors, landowners, municipalities, industrial operators, and investors who need an independent view before committing material capital and reputation. |
| Fee Approach | Feasibility studies are usually priced as a fixed or staged work fee based on project type, size, and data complexity. Where a feasible project then moves into capital raising or offtake work with regulated partners, a separate success based component can apply under a distinct mandate. |
If you are planning a carbon project and want a serious view before you commit to full development, send us a short summary of the concept, location, project type, and target standard. We will respond with a proposed feasibility scope, timeline, and fee range and a clear explanation of what our review can and cannot do for you.
Request A Feasibility ReviewFAQ
Does a positive feasibility study guarantee that carbon credits will be issued?
No. A positive feasibility conclusion means the project looks credible enough to move into PDD drafting, validation, and further work. Actual issuance depends on the standard, validators and verifiers, ongoing performance, policy risk, and counterparty choices. Any firm that says otherwise is not being honest with you.
Can you work with projects that have already started activities?
Often yes, but early action can weaken additionality. We assess what has already been done, how it was financed, and whether the project can still meet the rules of the chosen standard. In some cases the answer will be that only future phases are eligible or that crediting is not viable.
Do you replace project developers, validators, or verifiers?
No. We are an advisory firm. We do not write PDDs for standards unless this is agreed under a separate scope, we do not validate or verify projects, and we do not control registries. We sit in front of that process to test feasibility and beside you to help structure capital and offtake where the case is strong enough.
Can you help raise capital or arrange offtake if the project passes feasibility?
Yes, subject to a separate mandate and regulatory framework. We can support capital raising and offtake work with or through regulated partners where projects meet integrity and quality expectations. That work is always distinct from the feasibility engagement and carries its own fee structure and conditions.
What happens if your feasibility study concludes that our project should not proceed?
You still receive a full report and all supporting analysis. The value in that case is the avoidance of wasted spend and reputational risk. Many sponsors prefer a clear negative answer early to a slow and costly failure later in front of auditors and buyers.
Disclosures. FG Capital Advisors provides advisory services and may arrange capital and offtake with or through regulated partners. Nothing on this page is an offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities or carbon credits, or to invest in any project or fund. Any engagement is subject to internal approval, conflict checks, KYC and AML and sanctions screening where required, independent legal and tax advice on your side, and the terms of a formal mandate, engagement letter, and final transaction documentation.
