“Environmental Attributes Certificates are certificates, typically issued by an independent registry, that represent the environmental attributes from a low carbon supply chain project – eg the use of low carbon fuel within transportation – that can be allocated to downstream partners to mitigate scope 3 emissions and achieve sustainability targets.”

“Carboninsets is a specialized matchmaker focused on the growing market for high integrity EAC’s from hard-to-abate sectors. We connect buyers—corporate sustainability teams, logistics providers, and freight companies—with suppliers of verified EACs. We’re committed to making these emerging markets accessible and transparent for all participants.”

“Carboninsets offers EACs from most hard-to-abate sectors, like Steel, Cement and Chemicals. Our marketplace however focuses primarily on EACs generated in the Transportation sector, This includes SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel), SMF (Sustainable Marine fuels), Road EACs (EV, HVO, hydrogen) and even Rail, Inland shipping and EACs from logistic sites.”

All EACs offered on the Marketplace are issued, managed and transferred through the 123Carbon registry. 123Carbon is the world’s first multi-modal, blockchain-backed registry for EAC’s, following the Market Based Measures Framework developed by Smart Freight Centre. Every EAC is externally verified by recognized assurance partners following global standards.

“No. Applying for access to the Carboninsets EAC marketplace is completely free for accredited buyers. We believe transparent pricing and accessible entry should not be barriers to participation in the sustainable transportation credit market. You can apply today and start exploring inventory immediately.”

There are a few benefits from using the Marketplace:

1. Price transparency: the marketplace shows real-time prioces for all sort of EACs, providing clarity to the market on current price levels.
2. Any volume: the marketplace offers the largest inventory for Transportation EACs in the world, having access to over 500,000 tCO2e avoided on the spot market.
3. Comparability: since all EACs have gone through the same, robust issuance at 123Carbon, all the data on the EACs is available to Carboninsets. This means you can compare EACs on an apples-to-apples basis using price, additionality, vintage, issuer, or geography.
4. End-to-end supply chain: since you can buy EACs from any modality and geography, you have the option to decarbonise your entire supply chain, regardless of modality.
5. Ease of doing business: we have proven that we can fulfill your demand from quoting to EAC delivery within a week if needed. We use standardised, pre-agreed contracts that save a lot of legal time.
6. Any volume: since most EACs are already issued on the 123Carbon registry, they are directly available for transfer.

Yes. The sellers determine the minimal transaction volume. However, since most EACs are already issued on the 123Carbon registry and Carboninsets facilitates the transaction process, its very easy for a seller to support transactions at any volume level.

The sellers. Directly from their inventory on 123Carbon, issuers can nominate any part of their inventory to the Marketplace. They submit their prices, validity date and minimal transaction volume and their offers are published on the Marketplace in real-time. However, it is very well possible that an issuer does not offer its entire volume on the marketplace. If you see an interesting offer, but the offered volume is too low, please contact the Carboninsets-team.

Next to the marketplace, Carboninsets can also support individual requests, RFP’s or even auctions. Are you looking for a bespoke solution, please contact the Carboninsets-team.

As part of our service, we provide a secure Carboninsets-branded wallet on the 123Carbon-platform that allows you to receive, manage and retire the EACs that you have procured.

If you have found an offer you are interested in, please let us know by pressing the “I’m interested” button. The Carboninsets team will contact the seller and negotiate the deal, after which a Deal Recap is signed to confirm mutual interest. After this Deal recap is signed, the parties are introduced to each other, allowing parties to do their KYC. If all is ok, Carboninsets will provide a Sales Agreement, which is signed directly between the seller and the buyer.

Yes, Carboninsets also provides several options for 3rd party buyers to be active on the Carboninsets platform and offer EACs to their respective customers. Please contact our team for more options.