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Integrating Nature Tech:
A Guide for Business

30-40 minutes

This report highlights how Climate Collective, Nature4Climate, KPMG, and Serena are building the “nature tech” sector into a core pillar of corporate sustainability—equipping companies with digital tools, frameworks, and case-tested strategies to measure, manage, and reverse biodiversity and nature loss at scale.

Key Info

  • Defines nature tech as digital tools (AI, satellites, drones, sensors, blockchain) that help companies become nature-positive.

  • Introduces the ACT-D framework for assessing, setting targets, transforming operations, and reporting on nature impact.

  • Shows real corporate use cases proving nature tech can cut risk, meet CSRD/TNFD/SBTN requirements, and scale biodiversity and reforestation efforts.

Indigenous Shareholder-ship
in Environmental Markets

15-20 minutes

This report highlights how Indigenous Peoples are systematically excluded and under-compensated in carbon and nature markets—and lays out what real Indigenous Shareholdership, fair compensation, data sovereignty, and partnership models should look like for a just environmental market system.

Key Info

  • Indigenous communities steward around 40% of the world’s land but receive less than 1% of global climate finance, despite protecting major biodiversity and carbon sinks.

  • Calls out how current consultation, compensation, and royalty models are extractive—and pushes for equity-based partnerships and revenue-sharing instead of one-off payments.

  • Establishes Indigenous Data Sovereignty, meaningful consent (FPIC), and community-led governance as core requirements for fair carbon and nature markets.

Buyer’s Guide to Carbon Credit Data Quality

20-35 minutes

This report highlights how RMI and Climate Collective have built a buyer-focused framework to improve trust, rigor, and transparency in the voluntary carbon market—helping companies identify, vet, and purchase genuinely high-quality carbon credits using data-driven due diligence.

Key Info

  • Introduces a standardized “data package” framework for evaluating carbon credit quality based on verified carbon, social, and environmental performance.

  • Defines three core tests—credibility, efficiency, and governance—to screen projects, reduce greenwashing risk, and improve buyer confidence in voluntary carbon markets.

Grant Report 2023

15-20 minutes

This report highlights how Climate Collective is accelerating digital climate and nature innovation—deploying grants to launch new web3-based climate tools, expand global climate communities, and scale verified, on-the-ground environmental impact across dozens of countries.

Key Info

  • Distributed $4M+ across 39 grants in 13 countries, supporting 75+ climate projects.

  • Helped launch 9 new digital climate products, including carbon bridges, MRV platforms, and climate finance protocols.

  • Enabled 150K+ trees planted, 21B hectares monitored, and 2.8M+ kg of plastic diverted through funded partners.

Digital Infrastructure for Carbon Removal

10-15 minutes

This report highlights how Climate Collective and the Carbon Business Council outline the digital backbone needed to scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR)—laying out how digital MRV, blockchain, AI, and market infrastructure must evolve to make gigaton-scale carbon removal trustworthy, affordable, and globally accessible.

Key Info

  • Makes the case that digital MRV (dMRV) is essential to automate, standardize, and audit carbon removal measurement, reporting, and verification.

  • Identifies cost, trust, demand, and equity as the biggest blockers to scaling carbon removal to climate-relevant levels.

  • Recommends deploying blockchain-based market infrastructure, interoperable data systems, and automated verification tools to reduce friction, prevent double counting, and unlock global participation.

Voluntary Carbon Market
Landscape Guide

15-20 minutes

This report highlights how the voluntary carbon market is being held back by weak data and process integrity—and lays out the digital, governance, and market levers needed to make carbon credit quality transparent, trustworthy, and priceable at climate-relevant scale.

Key Info

  • Identifies process integrity and data integrity as the two pillars that determine whether carbon credits can be accurately verified, valued, and trusted.

  • Shows how subjective data, opaque pricing, and fragmented certification systems are breaking price signals and buyer confidence.

  • Explains how digital MRV and Web3 infrastructure can reduce risk, improve transparency, and help build a truly scalable, high-integrity carbon market.

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