Third-Party Validation

Independent validation of any claims can help improve your score. Examples include:

• Technology assurances by independent engineering firms
• Technical certification of fuels or other products
• Customer validation of claims (yield claims for example)

Sustainability certification by a rigorous third-party scheme will improve sustainability ranking. Examples include:

• Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels
• BonSucro
• Roundtable on Responsible Soy
• Forest Stewardship Council

More Complete Information
All companies have different levels of comfort with sharing information depending upon their business model, stage, etc. There are good reasons for companies to withhold information; however, the more information we have, the better we understand companies’ positions and the better able we are, and the more confident we are, in moving companies onto our Top 10 list.

For more details on the data points that we are analyzing and our relative weighting of metrics, see our methodology page.