Climate Action Data Trust Information

Meeting the scale of the climate and nature challenge requires far more finance than public funding alone can provide. Carbon markets are an essential tool for mobilising private capital and accelerating climate action. For carbon markets to scale, the systems that hold carbon credit data must be connected. CAD Trust is bringing together the actors behind these independent systems and building that connecting infrastructure. This work currently includes a neutral data platform and progress towards a common data standard. Shared interoperability protocols are also in development, for countries, crediting programmes and projects that wish to connect. CAD Trust is a nonprofit backed by the Government of Singapore, the World Bank, and IETA. We have no commercial interest by design, enabling us to convene the public and private sectors to integrate systems as a public good.