Web3 Carbon Forwards
Early funding for carbon
projects at fair terms
Early funding for carbon
projects at fair terms
Supported by
Scale voluntary carbon removals to meet the planet’s climate goals
Market challenges
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Unfavorable financing terms for early-stage projects on the voluntary carbon market
02
Lack of available instruments for investors to participate in forward carbon financing
03
No transparent price discovery
Unfavorable financing terms for early-stage projects on the voluntary carbon market
02
Lack of available instruments for investors to participate in forward carbon financing
03
No transparent price discovery
What are carbon forwards?
Carbon forwards are tokens issued by early-stage carbon removal projects and representing the to-be-issued voluntary carbon credits. By selling such carbon forwards, projects get early financing. Investors purchase carbon at a discount.
How it all works
Vlinder onboards developers of nature-based carbon removal projects that plan to be certified for the voluntary carbon markets and receive carbon credits, provides them with a service for tokenization, and facilitates sales of forward carbon
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Projects apply for tokenization, get their risks assessed and receive early investments at fair terms
Projects apply for tokenization, get their risks assessed and receive early investments at fair terms
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Investors participate in forward carbon tokens price upside with attractive return
Investors participate in forward carbon tokens price upside with attractive return
Infrastructure
Carbon Franc |
Team
We are economists and environmentalists, engineers, and data analysts of 5 nationalities
What we did:
First mobile-only decentralized exchange, first security token offering in 2016
First tokenized carbon credits in 2016
First tree-planting drone and drone-based carbon monitoring operational in 5 countries in 2017
First NatCap token offering in 2017
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