(Created Nov 2021)

We are building a trusted, decentralised marketplace where purchasers of carbon credits can confidently and directly fund trusted nature-based projects.

The Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits (4C) has two primary goals:

1. To support students and faculty members conducting foundational research in the relevant areas of computer science, environmental science, and economics

2. To create a trusted decentralized marketplace where purchasers of carbon credits can confidently and directly fund trusted nature-based projects that ties together corporate funders to conservationists via automated and transparent global oracles. This marketplace will be compatible with existing schemes such as IPCC Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

4C seeks to partner with the private sector, NGOs, and governments to iteratively refine these ideas.

Our goal is to exponentially increase the number of real nature-based conservation and restoration projects by channeling billions of dollars of worldwide funding towards them via market-based instruments.

All of the instruments will be bootstrapped by existing government initiatives to handle Know Your Customer (KYC) and land ownership requirements, depending on the geography involved.