I'm Jens Bergenheim — a forest scientist and carbon consultant. I help investors and developers across Europe and Latin America de-risk afforestation, reforestation and improved-forest-management projects, from feasibility through MRV, verification and issuance.
Read a client's experienceAutomated MRV is a useful input. It is not a methodology, and it is not a Go/No-Go. That's the part I own.
Every deliverable is my own work: a forest scientist reading your data and telling you what it means, not an automated score or an offshore template.
No platform fees, no tied registry, no white-label partners. When I assess a project, the only thing I'm weighing is whether the numbers hold up. Where I hold a commercial interest in a project, I disclose it in writing before scope, and I don't review that project for a third party.
M.Sc. Forestry Science. FSC Chain-of-Custody Lead Auditor. Field and modelling experience across boreal, temperate and tropical systems. I have defended monitoring data to a verifier in audit and to buyers in due diligence.
Every phase has a defined input, a defined output, and a decision gate. You know what you're buying before you buy it.
Satellite time-series analysis of land-use history, carbon-methodology eligibility, ecological baseline and non-permanence risk. EUDR-related analysis where relevant to covered commodities. Delivers a defensible Go / Re-scope / No-Go recommendation.
Methodology selection and justification (VM0047 ARR, VM0045 IFM, GS A/R). Baseline assessment under the selected methodology, including matched-control approaches where applicable. Additionality argumentation. Sampling design to the methodology's precision target. Leakage assessment and non-permanence risk buffer determination.
Full Project Design Document drafted to registry spec. I stay your technical voice through validator Q&A, site visits, and any corrective-action requests.
Annual monitoring using remote sensing and field plots, verification coordination, issuance support, and stakeholder reporting. The unglamorous years, done properly.
Pick a lane, or tell me the problem and we'll define scope together.
A feasibility & strategy report you can take to your board for a clean Go / No-Go.
Enquire about Phase I →Project documentation and technical support through validation and verification, with issuance subject to programme approval.
Enquire about Phase II →Ongoing monitoring, transparent reporting and support for technical review.
Enquire about Phase III →Assets or supply chain fall under EUDR. Need a risk assessment and auditable reporting.
A remote-sensing and GIS deforestation-risk assessment for your specific plots, written up as a report your due-diligence file can stand on.
Considering a carbon project. Need an independent technical reviewer.
A red-flag analysis of methodology, documentation and financial projections — the technical voice in your investment committee.
You need credits that airlines can use, or a host-country letter of authorisation under Article 6.2.
Assessment of programme, vintage and unit conditions for the intended CORSIA compliance period, plus support with host-country authorisation documentation where required. Authorisation alone does not establish unit eligibility; programme requirements and safeguards against double claiming must also be met.
Different geographies, same discipline: measure carefully, and write it down so it survives audit.
ARR + agroforestry on degraded cattle land. Full MRV design, forest-inventory protocol and PDD authoring under VCS VM0047. Integrated satellite, drone, LiDAR and field data into a single GEE-based pipeline; trained local crews and installed 60 permanent plots.
Continent-wide ARR + IFM portfolio across dozens of jurisdictions. Built a peer-reviewed modelling package fed by 40+ datasets, growth-and-yield models for 15+ species in 8 eco-regions, and an automated GEE pipeline producing per-parcel potential and revenue curves in minutes.
Investment-barrier and feasibility study for a confidential consortium pre-acquisition. Eligibility screening, calibrated growth models for temperate broadleaf species, common-practice baselines, and financial sensitivity analysis aligning carbon, timber and subsidy income against traditional land-use revenue.
“He was the accountable MRV lead, embedded in the project and responsible for seeing the work through. […] He also stood behind the project’s data and calculations during investor due diligence and with our auditors.”
“We continue to use many of the protocols and practices he established.”
“He was the accountable MRV lead, embedded in the project and responsible for seeing the work through. He trained and worked directly with the field team, helped translate technical requirements into processes they could actually use, and adapted those processes when the realities on the ground did not match the assumptions made on paper. He also stood behind the project’s data and calculations during investor due diligence and with our auditors.”
“We continue to use many of the protocols and practices he established.”
“Jens supported us refining the verification documentation with specialized information and offered an important back up to our staff during the following audit process, joining us until every finding was closed.”
“Jens supported us refining the verification documentation with specialized information and offered an important back up to our staff during the following audit process, joining us until every finding was closed. After the project had passed third-party verification, he conducted filing our submission on the Verra platform under both VCS and CCB, checking every document against Verra's rules, and our verification pledge is now being reviewed by VERRA. Based on this positive experience, we have engaged Jens to promote sales of our carbon credits, including making our credits eligible for CORSIA, the UN scheme where airlines offset their international emissions.”
My family has worked the forests of Sweden for generations. That's where I learned to read a stand of trees — long before I learned to read a registry methodology.
After an M.Sc. in Forestry Science and project work across four continents, I kept running into the same problem: the carbon market was being sold as a software category, when what projects actually needed was someone who would read the data carefully and tell the truth about it.
I founded Ecosilv to be that person. Every engagement is my own work, and I stay named on the file through verification rather than handing it over once the PDD is written. Where a project needs capabilities outside my scope, such as community engagement or a large field crew, I say so early and help you scope who does it. If a project will work, I'll show you exactly how. If it won't, I'll tell you before you spend two years finding out.
Practical resources for understanding the market and preparing a project conversation. No account needed.
Compare six land-use pathways, examine the project journey and find answers to practical carbon questions.
Explore the guide →Explore public recordsSearch registry records by country, category and status. Follow each record back to its source.
Browse projects →For landownersTurn what you know about your land, rights and intended changes into a useful first-conversation brief.
Prepare your brief →For buyersWork through a practical checklist and prepare a document request before evaluating a carbon credit offer.
Open the checklist →Have a specific decision to make? See how we can work together →
A 30-minute introductory call, no charge. Bring the problem — I'll bring the questions that tell us whether we should work together.
