End-to-end infrastructure for verifying, underwriting, settling, and retiring environmental performance instruments. From verified data to settlement finality, with institution-grade controls.
Programmable underwriting, pre-trade screening rules, audit-grade evidence, clean settlement.
Repeatable issuance, standardized instruments, faster buyer acceptance, less bespoke structuring.
Registry interop, settlement network participation, methodology co-development, API integration.
The Problem
Verified environmental performance is fragmented across registries, reports, and spreadsheets. Capital markets teams cannot underwrite, audit, or settle it at scale.
Evidence lives in PDFs, registries, and bespoke models. No standardized data chain from performance to instrument.
Buyers cannot price quality and delivery consistently. Every deal requires bespoke diligence and manual IC packs.
Transfers and retirements are manual or unclear for institutions. No atomic delivery-vs-payment for environmental instruments.
Controls, approvals, and accounting treatment are inconsistent. No immutable trail from meter data to retirement certificate.
If it can't be underwritten and settled with finality, it won't scale beyond bespoke deals.
What exactly is the instrument?
Each ECC instrument is a verified, metadata-rich unit with full evidence provenance and a clear lifecycle from issuance to retirement.
Sample instrument — illustrative only
Lifecycle
Evidence pointers
Platform Architecture
co2cc is the integrated offering. Each layer has a distinct function in the instrument lifecycle.
| Layer | Function | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| co2cc | Integrated offering | The product: verified environmental performance instruments at institutional scale. Combines all layers below into a single end-to-end service. |
| ECC | Truth layer | Science-based methodologies, data ingestion from meters/sensors, verification, evidence packs. Produces the verified performance data that underpins every instrument. |
| issuance.io | Instrument lifecycle | Creates instrument IDs, embeds metadata + provenance, manages lifecycle events (issue, transfer, retire). The instrument registry. |
| io2b.com | Rules + eligibility | Policy constraints, screening rules, risk buckets, maker-checker approvals. Enforces what can be issued, traded, and by whom. |
| settle.cloud | DvP settlement | Atomic delivery-vs-payment with finality. Immutable ledger for transfers, confirmations, and retirement certificates. |
| PaymentsEdge | Ops + compliance | KYB/KYC, AML screening, fee processing, reporting, audit-ready outputs. Institutional operations layer. |
The Solution
ECC provides science-based, peer-reviewed methodologies with end-to-end data ingestion, audit trails, and compatibility with institutional accounting.
Peer-reviewed, versioned methodologies for grid displacement, methane abatement, nature-based solutions, and more. Locked methodology versions ensure consistency.
From revenue-grade meters and IoT sensors through computation, verification, and issuance. Full chain-of-custody with signed attestations at every stage.
Issuance, settlement, and retirement follow repeatable institutional workflows. No bespoke structures per deal.
Position statements, reconciliations, accounting exports, and audit-ready evidence packs. Compatible with institutional balance-sheet treatment.
Engagements across industrial, energy, and infrastructure assets. Methodologies prioritized for institutional issuance. Multi-region pipeline across North America, Africa, and select emerging markets.
Capital markets are repricing what can be verified. Disclosure requirements increase demand without enabling monetization. Policy frameworks enable settlement, not market infrastructure.
Integrated Offer
Verified performance becomes a bookable, tradable, controllable instrument with a clear settlement and retirement pathway.
Methodology + verification + evidence pack. Science-based, peer-reviewed, tamper-resistant data lineage.
Create IDs, terms, lifecycle events. Standard instrument format with embedded metadata and provenance.
Policy constraints, risk buckets, maker-checker. Programmable screening rules for buy-side compliance.
Atomic delivery-vs-payment with finality. Immutable ledger events for transfers, confirmations, and retirement.
KYB/KYC, screening, approvals, fees, reporting. Institutional operations and audit-ready outputs.
Analyst Validation
Investment analysts underwrite five things. Our stack provides executable answers, not narrative.
io2b policy defines eligibility schemas. Issuance.io can only mint instruments that pass. Eligibility is enforced before issuance.
Revenue-grade metering, interval data, sensor uptime thresholds. Full chain-of-custody from raw meter to verified computation to issuance, with immutable proofs.
Claim-rights clean room: REC status declared, contracts approved, prohibited claims blocked at retirement. Single source of truth on the ledger.
Atomic DvP settlement with finality. Retirement is a first-class ledger event generating a certificate and locking the unit from further transfer.
Immutable audit logs, maker-checker approvals, versioned methodology, signed verifier attestations. Every event anchored and traceable.
Investors encode eligibility, integrity thresholds, double-counting constraints, counterparty risk, and portfolio limits as executable policy. Pre-trade checks become automatic.
What's different vs normal carbon markets
Repeatable issuance + faster buyer acceptance. Less bespoke structuring per deal.
Programmable underwriting (screening rules) + pre-trade enforcement + audit-grade evidence + clean settlement/retirement.
Competitive Position
Registries record issuance, ratings score quality, settlement networks move assets. We make verified environmental performance investable end-to-end.
Registries record. Ratings opine. We operationalize underwriting + settlement.
Execution Path
Show clean end-to-end evidence and controls in one pilot before scaling issuance volume.
Commercial Model
Economics scale with issuance volume. Standardization shifts work from bespoke to repeatable.
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