Biomass and Biofuels Editing and Proofreading Services

A pellet has no memory. Once it is in the hopper, nothing about it can tell you whether the tree it came from was a sawmill residue, a thinning from a managed forest, or something that should still be standing. The entire environmental case for the fuel rests on a paper trail assembled hundreds of miles upstream, and every weakness in how that trail is documented is a weakness in the claim.

We edit what biomass and biofuel producers and traders produce — feedstock sustainability documentation and chain of custody records, greenhouse gas calculation methodologies and their assumptions, supplier declarations and audit documentation, certification scheme submissions and evidence packs, sustainability reports and public claims, contract sustainability schedules and flow-down requirements, land criteria and risk-based assessment documentation, mass balance and accounting procedures, carbon intensity statements for regulators and offtakers, incident and non-conformance reporting, and customer-facing material describing the fuel's origins. Our editors work on the documents the claim rests on.

The chain of custody documentation is where a sustainability claim is either supported or merely asserted, and it fails through generality far more often than through dishonesty. A supplier declaration confirming that material is "sourced from sustainably managed forests" restates the standard rather than evidencing compliance with it. We work through these so each consignment is traceable to a defined origin at the level the scheme requires — the forest management unit, the mill, the collection point — with the identifier written where the reader can follow it; so the accounting method is stated explicitly, because physical segregation and mass balance permit very different things and a document silent on which is in use invites the assumption of the stronger; so residue and waste classifications are supported by what the material actually is rather than by what the supplier calls it, given that this classification frequently determines the whole carbon result; so the carbon calculation's inputs are shown with their source and date, including transport distances and mode; so risk-based assessments state what was assessed, over what area and against which criteria, rather than concluding low risk; and so any gap in the evidence chain is recorded as a gap. Documentation written this way survives an audit and, increasingly, a journalist.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including supplier information, calculations and commercial terms. We are editors rather than sustainability, certification or carbon accounting specialists, and we offer no view on your feedstock, your calculations or your compliance. What we can do is make the evidence say what the claim needs it to say.