Ecologically sound is not the same as financeable.
Your project may be sound and still not be ready.
Capital providers you are trying to reach already have mandates that include nature-based solutions. What stops a project is rarely the ecology, it is that the questions a committee has to answer cannot be answered from the material in front of it.
Who pays, on what basis, and how reliably. Whether the party behind that payment can be enforced against. Whether the rights over the land outlast the financing. Whether the outcomes can be measured credibly enough that the revenue tied to them holds. Whether the financing being asked for is realistic against the project's scale.
Getting to investment readiness means having those answers documented before anyone asks. That is the work NVP is built to do with you.
What assessment will ask of you.
These are the seven questions NVP examines. Expect to be asked for evidence in categories, and expect gaps to be named rather than worked around.
- 01
Revenue and payment structure
who pays, on what basis, and how reliably, because this is the mechanism that ultimately services capital.
- 02
Counterparty standing
the credit quality of the parties obligated to pay, and the enforceability of their obligations, because a revenue stream is only as strong as the party standing behind it.
- 03
Land and legal foundation
the security of rights over the relevant financing horizon, because a financing structure cannot outlast the legal ground it stands on.
- 04
Ecological and operational integrity
the credibility of how outcomes are measured and the capacity that delivers them, because the environmental result, and the revenue tied to it, hold up only if the measurement does.
- 05
Structural and regulatory readiness
the realism of the proposed financing approach against project scale and regulatory context, because this determines whether a project can absorb institutional capital on an institutional timeline.
- 06
Community alignment and governance
the benefit-sharing and governance arrangements between the project and the communities affected by it, because unresolved community risk travels with a deal long after financial close.
- 07
Scale and asset definition
whether the project is clearly bounded in geography and intervention, and sized to reach institutional financing thresholds, because an undefined or sub-scale asset cannot be underwritten on institutional terms.
What you get, and what it asks of you.
A documented view of where the project stands. Not a verdict, a written account of what is established, what is not, and what would need to change for the project to advance.
Structuring, if the project clears assessment. How risk is allocated among the parties, how the capital stack is designed around that allocation, and the documentation needed to bring the project to capital providers in a form they can act on.
Candour, including when it is unwelcome. If something in the project does not hold, you will hear it from us before you hear it from a committee. That is the part of the process most worth having.
Your time and your documents. Assessment cannot be done at arm’s length. It needs access to contracts, rights, measurement methods, and the people who know how the project actually runs.