Signature Practice

Deal people who understand carbon.

Carbon markets advisory built on deal discipline: diligence-grade analysis of carbon revenue, credit quality, and market entry. Not ESG consulting.

The Problem

A healthy IRR can quietly become a stranded asset.

Carbon revenue is now written into infrastructure and energy deal models, sometimes a third or more of projected returns. That revenue rests on regulatory, integrity, and market assumptions that conventional diligence rarely tests. When the carbon line is mispriced, the deal is mispriced.
Flagship Service

Carbon Revenue Diligence

We stress-test the carbon assumptions in your transaction with the same rigour you apply to every other diligence workstream.

Regulatory & sovereign risk: export restrictions, Article 6 authorisation, policy exposure across the hold period.
Credit integrity: additionality, MRV quality, rating, provenance, downgrade risk.
Market & pricing risk: demand durability, the widening quality premium, price assumptions against market reality.
Stranding scenarios: what the returns look like if the carbon line is restricted, repriced, or removed.

You receive: an IC-ready diligence memo, a risk-rated verdict on the carbon revenue line, stress-tested downside scenarios, and recommended protections from pricing mechanisms to deal-structure safeguards.

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Carbon Credit Quality Assessment

Independent integrity review of credits and portfolios before you buy, retire, or underwrite: additionality, MRV, rating, provenance, downgrade and reputational risk, with a clear buy-or-avoid view.

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Carbon Market Entry & Strategy

The market, the rules, and your entry path, mapped in one focused engagement. For corporates and asset owners committing real capital to carbon for the first time.

CBAM Advisory for Aluminium Exporters

Embedded-emissions calculation, documentation and verification readiness for aluminium exporters shipping into the EU.

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Why Akiva

We sit in the gap.

Most carbon advice comes from sustainability consultants who cannot model a deal, or from bankers who cannot assess a credit. We are an M&A and strategy advisory firm that treats carbon revenue as what it is: a financial asset whose integrity has to hold up years after close.

AKIVA STRATIQ
CARBON MARKETS RESEARCH
OUR PUBLISHED THINKING
The Flight to Quality
Read the research behind this practice.

The research behind the practice.

Our diligence frameworks are built on published, sourced analysis of the market's integrity architecture: the ICVCM's Core Carbon Principles, the VCMI Claims Code, and the pricing dynamics of the flight to quality.

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A 30-minute working conversation. No pitch deck.
Prefer to write first? Email ankur@akivastratiq.com