| The Action Group, in seeking ways and means to accelerate bioeconomy project development, found that financiers and strategic investors struggle with resources to study and assess bioeconomy projects. The sheer number of projects, the broad geography, the diversity of processing technology and feedstock, the volatility of commodity markets and reliability of carbon incentives are among some of the challenges that require immense helpings of time and experience that investors rarely have at the outset of their engagement with bioeconomy opportunity. Project Risk Ratings are a standards-based-assessment of industrial projects. These ratings are based on independently-sourced, verified data — seventeen years of historical project data relating to financial, technical and carbon performance, industry studies collected by The Digest, proprietary surveys of Digest readers to determine how markets weigh risk factors, and data developed by Digest partners Boundless Impact (TEA, LCA) and Ecostrat (Feedstock Risk Ratings). Project Risk Ratings offers a simple way to assess the initial risk of announced projects with a straight forward score of 0-100, using four weighted elemental factors: Feedstock Reliability, Carbon Incentive Security, Market Forces Adaptability and Economic Resilience. |
