Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Corporate CDR Procurement Diligence Playbook

How a corporate carbon removal fund evaluates suppliers, methodologies, and portfolio risk before signing an offtake.

The methodology page in your supplier diligence memo keeps coming back two paragraphs short of what offtake counsel and internal audit need to sign.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Corporate carbon removal procurement is a discipline almost nobody documents. The fund manager has to read across enhanced weathering, biochar, direct air capture, bio-oil sequestration, ocean alkalinity enhancement, and mineralisation, then judge which suppliers have methodology evidence strong enough to survive third-party assurance, internal audit, and a registry challenge. Most diligence memos stall on the same gaps. The MRV plan describes monitoring but not the assurance line. The additionality argument cites the methodology but does not stress-test the counterfactual. Permanence claims rely on the supplier's own monitoring rather than an independent registry. Offtake terms protect the supplier on tonnes-delivered but leave the buyer holding the bag on tonnes-issued. The course walks through how a fund builds the diligence file that holds: financial viability, methodology fit, MRV stress test, additionality counterfactual, permanence and reversal risk, leakage analysis, registry route, offtake protection, and portfolio construction across pathway, geography, vintage, and counterparty risk.

What you walk away with

A diligence file structure that holds up to internal audit and third-party assurance.
A methodology comparison matrix across Puro, Isometric, Verra and Gold Standard with the questions registry reviewers actually ask.
An MRV stress-test worksheet that finds the gaps before counsel does.
An offtake template with the clauses that protect the buyer if tonnes-delivered diverges from tonnes-issued.
A portfolio construction model that balances pathway, vintage, geography, and supplier counterparty risk.

The 12 modules

Module 1. The diligence memo that holds

What a corporate carbon removal diligence memo has to do. The three audiences it serves: the investment committee, internal audit, and the external assurance provider who signs the climate disclosure. Why most memos stall on the same four pages. The structure that survives all three audiences and the artefacts every section needs to cite.

Module 2. Supplier financial viability for early-stage CDR developers

Reading a CDR developer's financials when the developer is pre-revenue, grant-funded, or running on offtake prepayments. Burn rate, runway, customer concentration, dilution risk, the offtake prepayment structure, and what counterparty risk looks like when the supplier may not exist in five years. The viability score that maps to the portfolio limits in module twelve.

Module 3. Methodology fit across Puro, Isometric, Verra, Gold Standard, Riverse

Side-by-side comparison of the methodologies a CDR supplier may be claiming under. Puro for biochar and bio-oil. Isometric for enhanced weathering and bio-oil sequestration. Verra for direct air capture and afforestation. Gold Standard for nature-based pathways. Riverse for emerging pathways. The questions registry reviewers ask. The methodology comparison matrix template you will reuse on every supplier.

Module 4. MRV plan stress test, line by line

Reading a supplier's monitoring, reporting and verification plan as the third-party assurance provider will read it. Where the assurance line lands. Sampling strategy. Instrument calibration. Data lineage from sensor to registry. The reversal monitoring schedule. The independent verification step the supplier hopes you will not ask about. A worked stress test on a biochar MRV plan and a DAC MRV plan.

Module 5. Additionality, baselines, counterfactuals

How additionality is argued for engineered removals where there is no historical baseline. The counterfactual the methodology asks for. The counterfactual the assurance provider will actually challenge. The three weakest additionality arguments in the current corporate CDR market and how to strengthen each. A worked additionality assessment for an enhanced weathering project on agricultural land.

Module 6. Permanence, reversal, and the buffer pool question

How permanence is bounded across pathways: biochar century-class, DAC geological storage, enhanced weathering ocean alkalinity. The reversal monitoring obligations. The buffer pool the registry holds and what happens if the buffer pool is depleted. The clauses in your offtake that protect the buyer if a reversal event hits in year seven. Worked permanence assessment across three pathways.

Module 7. Leakage analysis for biomass and land-use CDR

Where leakage shows up for biomass-feedstock pathways (biochar, bio-oil) and land-use pathways. Direct land-use change. Indirect land-use change. Feedstock displacement when the supplier scales. The leakage discount the methodology applies and the assurance question that decides whether the methodology discount is enough. Worked leakage analysis for a biochar project sourcing forestry residue.

Module 8. Registry path, tonne issuance, and the chain of custody

The end-to-end path from project monitoring data to issued tonnes in a registry account. The validation, verification and issuance gates. The handover from monitoring data to registry. The chain-of-custody question your fund's auditor will ask about retirement and double-counting. How to read a registry account statement and what registry-side risks the offtake should price.

Module 9. Offtake structure for early-stage CDR suppliers

Offtake terms that protect a corporate buyer when the supplier is pre-revenue and tonne delivery is years out. Prepayment structures. Tonne-delivered vs tonne-issued obligations. Substitution rights when the supplier under-delivers. Termination triggers tied to methodology, MRV, or financial events. The five clauses that came out of the last twelve months of actual signed offtakes and what each one prevents.

Module 10. Co-benefit and Indigenous-rights diligence for nature-based and weathering pathways

Diligence beyond the tonne. Community consent, FPIC where applicable, biodiversity co-benefits, water impact for ocean alkalinity, agricultural impact for enhanced weathering. The supplier disclosures your fund's communications and policy teams will be asked to defend. The non-tonne diligence file that sits alongside the methodology diligence file.

Module 11. Pricing tonnes across pathways and vintages

How a fund prices a tonne when the pathway is uncomfortable to compare. Quality-adjusted pricing. Vintage adjustments. The cost-of-capital implication of a ten-year prepayment vs spot. Reading the market reports and the price-discovery data that exists in this asset class. A pricing worksheet across DAC, biochar, enhanced weathering and ocean alkalinity, with the assumptions the fund will defend at the investment committee.

Module 12. Portfolio construction and disclosure

Building the portfolio across pathway, vintage, geography, supplier counterparty risk, and registry route. The concentration limits a fund actually applies. The disclosure obligations the portfolio triggers in corporate climate reporting. The narrative the fund will tell when the portfolio is read alongside the corporate emissions disclosure. The portfolio dashboard template the fund will run on every quarter.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Module 4 lands the next time offtake counsel asks for the third-party assurance line the supplier cannot give without a methodology rewrite.

Module 9 lands the next time the supplier wants tonne-delivered terms and the fund wants tonne-issued terms.

Module 6 lands the next time the buffer pool question comes up at the investment committee and nobody has the worked answer.

Module 12 lands the next time the corporate climate disclosure team asks how the portfolio reads against the corporate emissions footprint.

What you get with this course

Twelve written modules with worked diligence memos, methodology comparison matrices, MRV stress-test worksheets, additionality and permanence assessments, offtake clause library, leakage analysis, registry path map, pricing worksheet, and portfolio dashboard template.
Hand-built implementation playbook tuned to a corporate carbon removal fund mandate, delivered alongside course access.
Downloadable diligence file template the fund can reuse on every supplier.
30-day money-back guarantee.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.

Before and after

Before

The diligence memo keeps coming back from offtake counsel and internal audit with the same four pages flagged. Methodology fit is asserted, not stress-tested. The MRV plan reads as monitoring, not as assurance. Additionality is cited from the methodology, not argued from the counterfactual. The offtake protects the supplier on tonnes delivered and leaves the fund holding registry risk.

After

The diligence file holds across investment committee, internal audit, and external assurance. Methodology fit is documented with the comparison matrix. The MRV plan is stress-tested line by line. Additionality has a worked counterfactual. The offtake protects the fund on tonnes issued, with substitution rights and termination triggers tied to methodology and financial events. The portfolio reads cleanly against the corporate climate disclosure.

What happens if you do not address this

The supplier you almost signed last quarter is going to come back this quarter with the same methodology gap. The diligence memo will go back to counsel with the same flags. The investment committee will ask the same buffer pool question. Without a documented diligence file that holds across the three audiences, the fund's procurement is one audit cycle from being told to redo the last two years of supplier selections.

Who it is for

You run carbon removal procurement inside a corporate sustainability fund. You evaluate suppliers across multiple removal pathways, write the diligence memos, and negotiate the offtake. You answer to a finance counterparty, an internal audit team, and an external assurance provider, and your supplier list is read by the fund's external climate disclosures.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for project developers selling tonnes, not for registry standards staff, not for academic researchers writing methodology critiques. It is for the buyer-side person sitting across the table from those three.

How it arrives

Text-based course in the Art of Service learning environment, plus downloadable templates and worked examples for every module, plus the hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access.

Time investment. Six to eight hours of reading across twelve modules. The diligence file, methodology matrix, MRV stress-test worksheet, and offtake clause library are reusable artefacts; the time investment is one-off and the artefacts compound across every supplier the fund evaluates after.

Why $199 is the right number

Free market reports from the CDR rating houses summarise pathways but do not give the fund the diligence file structure. Consultancy retainers for offtake support run into five-figure month fees and still leave the fund without an in-house diligence capability. Methodology documents from Puro, Isometric, Verra, and Gold Standard are written for project developers, not corporate buyers. The course is the corporate buyer's view of the same material.

FAQ

Is this written for a corporate buyer or a project developer?

Corporate buyer. The whole course is the buyer-side view: supplier diligence, methodology fit assessment, MRV stress test, offtake protection, portfolio construction. Project developers will find the methodology comparison useful but the offtake module is written from the buyer's chair.

Does it cover all major removal pathways?

Yes. Direct air capture, biochar, bio-oil sequestration, enhanced weathering, ocean alkalinity enhancement, mineralisation, and nature-based pathways are covered in the methodology comparison, with worked examples drawn from the pathways where corporate procurement volume is concentrated.

What does the implementation playbook contain?

A diligence file structure tuned to your fund mandate, the methodology comparison matrix pre-filled for the suppliers your fund is currently evaluating, the offtake clause library with the clauses your counsel can mark up directly, and a portfolio dashboard template.

How is this different from a consultancy retainer?

A retainer gives you someone else's judgement on a single deal. The course gives the fund the diligence file, methodology matrix, MRV stress-test worksheet, and offtake clause library to run in-house on every supplier from here on.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.