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For IFC (In Washington)
Elena Gex Renjel
egex@ifc.org
202-250-1015
For Aspiration
Sehrish Sayani and Sofia Doss
ssayani@aspiration.com
sdoss@aspiration.com
For Cultivo
Edward Hopkins
ed.hopkins@darkgreenpr.com
For Chia Network
Parveen Singh
Chia@FTIConsulting.com
Carbon Opportunities Fund Launches First-of-its-Kind Investment Platform to Issue Tokenized Carbon Credits
Washington, DC, August, 17, 2022 The International Finance Corporation, Cultivo, Aspiration, and Chia Network, today announced the launch of the
Carbon Opportunities Fund (the Fund), a global investment platform that will raise private capital for an innovative model to source, tokenize and sell high-quality, verified carbon credits.
The Fund will seek to catalyse investments in the voluntary carbon markets and broaden access to finance for nature-based projects certified by leading
international standards bodies. This new model for the carbon trading ecosystem will deploy innovative technologies to help identify, monitor, evaluate and natively tokenize verified carbon credits.
This new partnership will foster the standardization of carbon credits generated in emerging markets and help mitigate climate change, said Paulo
de Bolle, Global Director, Financial Institutions Group, IFC. Nature-based solutions can deliver up to 40% of the carbon removal required to combat the climate crisis. This new framework that will use new blockchain technologies is an
innovative way for capital markets to fully engage in carbon credit trading in a transparent, secure, fair, and beneficial manner.
Cultivo and
Aspiration, leading originators and investors in nature-based carbon credits, will lead the Funds strategy and execution. Cultivos data-driven technologies will identify nature-based projects that recurrently produce high-quality carbon
credits. As one of the anchor investors, Aspiration will advise on the selection of carbon credits projects and Fund investments. As the Funds carbon credits are tokenized, they will be tracked by the World Banks Climate Warehouse, which
was launched on Chias public blockchain, as the foundational architecture to build market trust by enhancing transparency and securing the integrity of global carbon trading.