Standardising Carbon Markets - Improving Transparency and Traceability with AI, DLT & IoT

Carbon markets are expected to grow from 10-20 billion USD per year to more than 200 billion USD by 2035. How can you take part in this ecosystem? How can your business benefit by incorporating blockchain solutions in a broader way?
This book will explore solutions that utilize blockchain technology and tokenization to deliver efficient, transparent, trustworthy and interoperable carbon offsetting solutions for small and medium-sized businesses and consumers. Software and hardware developers will be provided with an introduction to key players in the carbon offsetting universe and associated markets and industries globally. 
Readers will learn how to:
·         Outline how the technology that supports carbon markets is driving genuine climate change
·         Describe the complexity and different players in the carbon offsetting ecosystem including developers of carbon-offsetting projects, infrastructure providers, buyers, and financiers
·         Describe blockchain technology and its benefits to carbon markets transparency, traceability, accountability
·         Provide a complex discussion on regulatory initi

List of contents

Chapter 1: Climate Change.- Chapter 2: Understanding Carbon Markets.- Chapter 3: Controversy to Credibility: Reforming Carbon Markets with Technology.- Chapter 4: Critical need for regulation: Integrity of voluntary carbon markets.- Chapter 5: Legal and Policy Foundations of Blockchain-Enabled Global Carbon Markets and Climate Data Systems.- Chapter 6: Blockchain Use Cases for High Integrity Carbon Markets : Addressing Double Counting, Liquidity and Transparency.- Chapter 7: The Basics of Blockchains for Carbon Markets.- Chapter 8: Carbon Tokenization.- Chapter 9: Trends in end-to-end Ecosystem Standards.- Chapter 10: The Role of Data and Technology in Carbon Projects.- Chapter 11: Climate Action Data Trust.- Chapter 12: Partnering for Project Longevity.- Chapter 13: Pricing the VCM, S&P Global case study.

About the author

Kalyani Inampudi
is currently an independent ESG and carbon consultant. She works directly with carbon offset solutions providers and those involved in reforestation or other activities that reduce or offset carbon emissions, funders, technologists, and policy makers globally. Kalyani also advises fintech companies and fund managers on ESG investments and strategies. Kalyani's knowledge and experience fuses asset management, data analysis and ESG consulting. Her expertise includes deep data research and writing investment proposals. She is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (ACSI) and has certifications from the UNPRI, the Climate Disclosure Standards Board via the TCFD Knowledge Hub. She has an MBA from Imperial College Business School, London.

 
Jonathan E. Rackoff
is an attorney and policy advisor with more than twenty years of experience at the intersection of emerging technologies and regulatory strategy. He is the former Vice President and Head of Global Policy & Regulatory Affairs for the Hedera Foundation—the ecosystem-development arm of the Hedera Layer-1 distributed ledger network—where he helped lead climate-tech investment and related regulatory goals across North America, the EU, the UK, the Middle East, and APAC. He currently advises digital technology and climate-innovation companies on regulatory, commercial, and governance strategy in the Web3, AI, and carbon-markets sectors.

During the Obama Administration, Jonathan served in the White House as lead regulatory counsel to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and as Designated Agency Ethics Officer for the Office of Management and Budget. He later served as Senior Counsel for Congressional Affairs in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he oversaw the agency’s response to more than 90 congressional investigations and 60 hearings in the 114th Congress.
In addition, Jonathan practiced appellate and Supreme Court litigation at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C.; served as General Counsel of a biotechnology startup; and was a litigation partner at a Seattle boutique representing frontier-technology companies on high-stakes regulatory and crisis-management matters—including in a secondment to Coinbase’s Policy and Ventures teams following its direct public listing.
He is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he served as an Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review, and clerked both for the Hon. Proctor Hug, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Hon. Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Summary

Carbon markets are expected to grow from 10-20 billion USD per year to more than 200 billion USD by 2035. How can you take part in this ecosystem? How can your business benefit by incorporating blockchain solutions in a broader way?
This book will explore solutions that utilize blockchain technology and tokenization to deliver efficient, transparent, trustworthy and interoperable carbon offsetting solutions for small and medium-sized businesses and consumers. Software and hardware developers will be provided with an introduction to key players in the carbon offsetting universe and associated markets and industries globally. 
Readers will learn how to:
·         Outline how the technology that supports carbon markets is driving genuine climate change
·         Describe the complexity and different players in the carbon offsetting ecosystem including developers of carbon-offsetting projects, infrastructure providers, buyers, and financiers
·         Describe blockchain technology and its benefits to carbon markets – transparency, traceability, accountability
·         Provide a complex discussion on regulatory initiatives and standards that drive positive change in carbon markets, beginning with those that apply to the physical domain (e.g., energy, agriculture), how data is collected, processed, validated and verified right up to financing/trading projects
·         Analyze how blockchain will help your carbon offsets business
·         Apply Web 3 technology to overcome data quality challenges in carbon markets
 
Target audience
This book is for project developers (those involved in reducing green house gas emissions), computer software developers working in Web 2 or Web 3 environments, others in the tech community, educated professionals, business managers and owners who are interested in buying or selling carbon credits, NGOs and Non-profits, Academic Institutions.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kalyani Inampudi (Editor), Rackoff (Editor), Jonathan Rackoff (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2026
• EAN: 9798868820366
• ISBN: 9798868820366
• No. of pages: 261
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 16 mm x 254 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Illustrations: XXXIX, 261 p. 41 illus., 40 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Pädagogik, Umwelt, Informatik, Sustainability, Datenbanken, Blockchain, Regulation, Kryptografie, Verschlüsselungstechnologie, computer science, Greenwashing, Biodiversity, ESG, Distributed Ledger Technology, Tokenization, Carbon markets, carbon offsetting, carbon credits, Tokenized carbon credits