Carbon Practice

Carbon runs through all three lines of business: we develop carbon projects, publish CCUS data and deliver carbon studies. This page covers the practice end to end.

Studies & AdvisoryData & Intelligence

01 Workstream A

Carbon project development.

We work with an industrial host to identify its CO₂ sources, evaluate capture options against the process it already runs, model the economics, and structure the project so it can be financed and delivered.

Scope of work

Source screening — CO₂ sources, volumes, concentrations and site constraints.
Capture pathway evaluation — technology options screened against the host's process, utilities and available land.
Project structuring — commercial model, offtake routes, partner roles, permitting logic and financing pathway.
Implementation roadmaps — sequencing, milestones, and the decision each stage has to reach.

Typical deliverables

Source map
Pathway evaluation memo
Project structuring report
Techno-economic model
Implementation roadmap
Financing pathway brief

Indicative · Modelled economic outputs, IRR, NPV, payback and revenue per tonne, are indicative until validated at pilot scale.

02 Workstream B

Conversion pathways, and what each credit grade means.

Three capture and conversion pathways, each tied to a different credit grade under the standard a project registers with.

01 Pathway 01

Direct air capture

Renewable electricity powers atmospheric CO₂ capture and the production of hydrogen from water. The two streams feed synthesis into methanol, synthetic aviation fuel and ammonia.

Representative chemistry: CO₂ + 3H₂ → CH₃OHRWGS + Fischer-Tropsch → e-SAFN₂ + 3H₂ → 2NH₃
Credit grade under the relevant standard: Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits. Atmospheric origin is what places a pathway in the engineered removal tier under the relevant standard.

02 Pathway 02

Point-source capture

Industrial flue gas is captured on site, typically under a Capture-as-a-Service (CaaS) arrangement in which the host pays a fee per tonne captured. The CO₂ enters the same synthesis routes alongside hydrogen from electrolysis.

Representative chemistry: CO₂ + 3H₂ → CH₃OHN₂ + 3H₂ → 2NH₃
Credit grade under the relevant standard: Reduction or avoided-emission credits — the tier a standard applies where capture prevents an emission rather than removing CO₂ already in the atmosphere.

03 Pathway 03

Mineralisation

Captured CO₂ reacts with industrial brine rich in calcium or magnesium chloride. The carbonates produced are saleable industrial products and the CO₂ is held in mineral form.

Representative chemistry: Ca(OH)₂ + CO₂ → CaCO₃ + H₂OMg(OH)₂ + CO₂ → MgCO₃ + H₂O
Credit grade under the relevant standard: Storage credits, on the permanence basis the standard states for mineral carbonates — greater than 10,000 years.

Credit grades, prices and permanence periods are set by the standard a project registers under. We analyse which grade a pathway qualifies for and what evidence the standard requires; issuance rests with the registry and verification with an accredited body.

Interior of an electrolyser hall, with stacks arranged in rows. — Fig 01An electrolyser hall. Hydrogen from electrolysis is the second input to the synthesis routes above.

A core sample of mineral carbonate held in a laboratory. — Fig 02A mineral carbonate sample. Mineralisation stores CO₂ as a solid carbonate.

03 Lifecycle

How a carbon project moves.

Six stages, end to end. Each stage closes on a decision, and the analysis that decision needs is what we are engaged to produce.

Discover
Identify CO₂ sources, hydrogen availability, water and feedstock constraints, capture options and site-specific economics.
Structure
Select technology partners, commercial model, offtake routes, measurement approach, logistics and financing pathway.
Develop
Build the project case, techno-economic model, implementation roadmap, permitting logic and commercial documentation.
Verify
Integrate measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), audit trails, claim traceability and buyer documentation.
Monetise
Route captured CO₂ and produced hydrogen into products, credits, offtake agreements, storage or compliance value.
Scale
Reinvest into capacity, repeat the approach across further host sites, and extend it across the GCC.

04 Workstream C

MRV, credits and assurance readiness.

Measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) evidence collection, readiness for the Greenhouse Gas Crediting and Offsetting Mechanism (GCOM), coordination with accredited verification bodies, and audit-ready project documentation.

This work is delivered through RV Assurance, a separate services line. We prepare the evidence, document it against the rulebook, and coordinate with the accredited body that reviews it. Advisory and assurance never review the same project.

Typical deliverables

GCOM readiness score
Project design document (PDD) draft
MRV data room
VVB coordination package
Verification-ready evidence pack
Buyer route plan

A technician taking a field sample and recording the reading. — Fig 03Field sampling. Metered and sampled data is the first stage of the verification trail.

The five-stage verification trail

Capture and measurement — continuously metered data held with its calibration certificates.
Quality assurance and quality control — a QA/QC log with documented gap rules.
Monitoring report — compiled against the requirements of the Greenhouse Gas Crediting and Offsetting Mechanism (GCOM).
Verification — independent review by a Validation and Verification Body (VVB) accredited by the Designated National Authority, never by Renewable Vision.
Credit issuance — recorded on the GCOM registry with vintage and origin.

No-double-counting documented · Attaches to MRV and credit-pathway language. It states that distinct claims — for example an embedded fuel claim and a separate removal or storage claim — are documented separately, never combined.

05 Governance

Governance, independence and non-accreditation.

Independence and non-accreditation are part of how the practice is run, and they are stated here in full.

Renewable Vision is not a DNA-accredited Validation and Verification Body.

Disclaimers

01Renewable Vision is not presented as a DNA-accredited VVB unless formal accreditation has been obtained.
02Renewable Vision may support project preparation, MRV evidence management, and coordination with accredited VVBs.
03Validation and verification opinions must be issued only by DNA-accredited VVBs.
04Any future Renewable Vision assurance activity must comply with GCOM criteria, sectoral scope accreditation, impartiality, conflict-of-interest, and quality management requirements.
05A project supported by Renewable Vision Advisory should not be validated or verified by the same legal or operational unit unless conflict-of-interest rules are fully satisfied and permitted by GCOM.

Independence controls: Our assurance line is designed to stay separate from advisory through eight controls: separate staff, separate reporting line, separate document access, separate client engagement records, an independent review committee, restricted project assignment, automated conflict screening, and a signed declaration before any assurance engagement is accepted.This describes the governance design we commit to and apply.
Advisory-side conflict disclosure: Renewable Vision also develops its own carbon and hydrogen project work. Where an advisory engagement touches a pathway we develop, we disclose it at scoping.

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