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Introducing Open Carbon

Imagine impact claims that you can trust.

Discover a world where carbon finance is inclusive, transparent, and efficient. Where enhanced carbon credits deliver trustworthy data to anyone, at any time.

Carbon markets' biggest challenges

Carbon markets are not set up to scale at the speed and dimension needed to address the climate crisis. There isn’t enough transparency in the market. Developers struggle to showcase the impact of their projects, and money doesn’t flow to those that need it most. The resulting lack of trust causes many actors to steer clear of making environmental impact claims.

Fragmentation

Buyers have limited ways of comparing which credits they'd like to purchase​​​.

Little transparency

It's challenging to identify fair pricing for assets due to lack of transparency.

Lacking data

Risk assessment is difficult because data is absent or hard to interpret.

What is Open Carbon?

Open Carbon is a framework that makes carbon credits transparent and easy to access. It guarantees that an individual credit has a minimum level of trusted data directly embedded into the credit, and rebuilds trust between project developers, credit buyers, brokers and other VCM stakeholders.

Through standardization, carbon credits can be commoditized, while their unique metadata is preserved. Our technical infrastructure allows for instant settlements.

Credits are standardized across different carbon registries. This allows users to easily compare and discover suited credits. 

Important data from different sources is directly embedded into the credit. This includes dMRV, rating data from independent organizations, origination-, issuance and transaction data, as well as price points.

Key information is aggregated and made easily accessible in one place. 

Open Carbon benefits

By bringing key information into the open, market participants can make informed decisions on the true value of assets.

Each Open Carbon credit’s detailed transaction data can be viewed by everyone, including information on the credit price, time of purchase and number of previous transactions. All of this updates in real time. 

Open Carbon’s increased transparency ensures that prices accurately reflect the market’s supply and demand dynamics.

Tokenized carbon credits can back loans

The journey starts today

Phase 1: Visualization
We visualize key credit information, onboard first registries and collect valuable insights from market participants that inform the future direction of Open Carbon.
Phase 2: Liquidity
We introduce products that aggregate credits with similar attributes. This provides instant access to credits, while still retaining individual credit's metadata.
Phase 3: Standardization
Dynamic data powers all Open Carbon credits. Users can access transaction and price information, view dMRV and updated issuance data, and compare credits across standards and registries.
Q4 2023
2024
2025

Share your feedback on phase 1.

Join our beta cohort to share your feedback on our Open Carbon Explorer – a new tool that helps visualize, discover and compare credits across environmental markets. Our beta cohort is an exclusive group of VCM stakeholders with early access to what we’re buidling. Your interactions and insights will shape the direction of the platform, and inform the future of Open Carbon.