CARBONETZ is a US based company focused on ascertaining/delivering data-driven, verified carbon credits to quality carbon registries worldwide. Primary development involves secure, source-up methods for measuring, reporting verifying CarbonCredits.

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Christian Hölljes

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

cholljes@gmail.com

Additional applicants

Steven Maloney

sgm1766@gmail.com

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

5

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

Yes

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.” .

AFPACC

(in portuguese)

Associação de Fomento do Pequenos Agricultores Comercialmente Conectados

(in english)

Association for the Promotion of Small Commercial Farmers)

IOG

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

No

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

• Aspects of Secure onboarding
• Aspects of Interfacing to Global Carbon Registries and Markets
• Some aspects of Digital Twin engine and simulator

[METADATA] Category of Proposal

dApp

[METADATA] SDG rating

UN Sustainable Development Goals SDG met by CARBONEZ

• No Poverty
• Zero Hunger
• Good Health and Well-Being
• Quality Education
• Gender Equality
• Decent Work and Economic Growth
• Industry Innovation and Infrastructure
• Reduced Inequalities
• Sustainable Cities and SustainableCommunities
• Responsible consumption and Production

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

CARBONETZ is building a global carbon-farming validation (for trade) platform from the ground up based upon four pillars: 

• Engagement of knowledge labor starting with farmers in Mozambique

• Accurate measurements and data based on reliable monitoring methods and established GHG standards (Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, Verra, others); 

• Smart Contracts in developing integrity and trust 

• Data-Visualization (Digital Twins) for transparent, easy monitoring and simulation.

Working closely with experienced in-country partner organizations (starting with Mozambique based AFPACC), each farmer/project will be "onboarded" via our dApp and a digital-profile will be created in order that monitoring and data capture can commence.  

CARBONETZ: establish a scalable IOG based DID (Lace, Cardano, ADA) based platform so all verified carbon-credits can be securley allocated and in turn traded via carbon registries in Compliance Carbon Markets (CCMs) and Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs) so that the majority of the earnings will be returned to the farmers. 

We anticipate our easy to use, comprehensive and secure carbon-farming, tracking-for-trade platform will grow quickly across Mozambique, Africa and in time the world. Our technical partners will scale with us as we establish a level playing field for all who want to practice and profit from carbon-farming.

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

CARBONETZ: establish a scalable IOG based DID (Lace, Cardano, ADA) based platform so all verified carbon-credits can be securley allocated and in turn traded via carbon registries in Compliance Carbon Markets (CCMs) and Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCMs) so that the majority of the earnings will be returned to the farmers. 

We anticipate our easy to use, comprehensive and secure carbon-farming, tracking-for-trade platform will grow quickly across Mozambique, Africa and in time the world. Our technical partners will scale with us as we establish a level playing field for all who want to practice and profit from carbon-farming.

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

We will measure the success of your project by testing out in-county partners (AFPACC-Mozambique) and our in-country personnel at how well they:

• effectiveness and time to onboard farmers/projects in Mozambique
• Ease of use as reported by AFPACC personnel, Small Commercial Farmers Small Holder Farmers as well as CARBONETZ personnel
• interface and adherance to existing compliance protocols (Verra: The Verified Carbon Standard, The Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, etc.)
• Confirm end-to-end data acquisition and methods for proffer to carbon registries and exchanges
• Confirm sales and exchange from ₳-$-₳

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

Our goal here is to specify all parts of our CARBONETZ platform and methodologies and insure we have oversight of all technology integration and required to interface interactions/elements/code designated in Functional and Technical Specifications.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

The CARBONETZ team has years working in Securities Markets, building a focus on Carbon Credits and Exchanges. Our principals have held leadership positions at world leading media, interface and computer companies as well as mobile and digital onboarding/security companies. Our Mozambique team has deep experience in the Carbon Sciences, Higher Education and within the Mozambican Government.

Our AFPACC partners have been pioneering in teaching, training and implementing new farming methods and ways of building, organizing collaboratives for decades in Africa and South America with NGO's and others like TechnoServe, USAID, FINCA, DAI as well as global companies such as Starbucks, Chiquita and Tysons and others.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

Mozambique Focused Goals

VALIDATION:

• AFPACC will designate Carbon Training resources and curriculum farmers to learn carbon farming methodologies and data-points of various emerging protocols (Verra: The Verified Carbon Standard, The Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, etc.)
• CARBONETZ and AFPACC will work together with Farmers (SCF & SHF) to be sure the right metrics are put into place for secure onboarding of each farmer and their respective project/farm/crop(s)
• AFPACC will specify monitoring dates and standards based on emerging protocols (Verra: The Verified Carbon Standard, The Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, etc.)
• CARBONETZ will designate, as part of this project, its own teams and regiments for inspecting and monitoring each farm/project in Mozambique, again based on emerging protocols (Verra: The Verified Carbon Standard, The Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, etc.)
• CARBONETZ will work with AFPACC and farmers to develop a ethnocentric and culturally sensitive dApp (decentralized software tools and interface) that has easy to navigate procedures and UI so farmers/AFPACC and CARBONETZ can independently but collaboratively assure that all carbon farming milestones and requirements are being met. The validation will ultimately be how farmers and AFPACC rate the tools ease of use and efficacy but a specification will be the goal of this initial project.
• Carbon Credit valuation and exchange software designed with flexible API's to meet the needs of various carbon registries and carbon exchanges. Again a functional specification will be our initial goal within this initial phase.

Focused Goals

VALIDATION:

People:

We need to specify our team in Mozambique. We have key players designated but need to map out our requirements for validation teams, organizational teams and on the ground software teams in necessary. These teams and their capabilities should match our initial 10,000 farmers/projects in Mozambique and serve as another milestone. Likewise the resources to help scale AFPACC in order to work with them to train farmers on carbon farming techniques and methods but also on how they will be onboarded, monitored and ultimately rewarded using mobile phones (feature and or Smart Phones)to record and track all data.

Technology:

• Onboarding will leverage partner technologies that leverage personal information, biometrics, location/mapping data, document authentication etc.. We will develop a list of viable and intended technologies and how to implement these when in-country. We need to outline the associated UI and end profile screen(s).
• CARBONETZ will need to specify a team of software engineers or outsource partners who can work with IOG and others to integrate LACE, Cardano and ADA capabilities as we collect and ascribe secure, validated Carbon Credits to Farmers.
• We need to specify flexible software stacks that will integrate with various carbon registries and exchanges API's.

CARBONETZ will develop systems for testing all aspects of their dApp to ensure end-to-end integrity and seamless flow whereby onboarding works with IOG's digital wallet (Lace) as it holds data that will ultimately manifest as carbon credits and be leveraged for a premium price on qualified registries and their attendant exchanges whereby ADA will be exchanged ₳-$-₳.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Our first Milestone will be to build our Milestones which requires partners (onboarding technology companies and IOG access to Lace, ADA, Cardano frameworks) and teams in the US, Mozambique (and elsewhere) spending time to map these out. It should take 3-4 weeks to have a complete set of milestones (part of the work) and each of the main tasks or activities to reach and develop the milestones plus the expected timeline for their delivery. This will include each forseeable milestone and their attendant tasks/activities/time.

• Onboarding Process functional and technical specification.
• Integration with IOG API's functional and technical specification.
• Carbon Farming Training functional and technical specification.
• Software dApp training functional and technical specification
• for CARBONETZ,
• for AFPACC personnel
• for Farmers (SCF & SHF)
• Integration strategy for growing carbon monitoring protocols (Verra: The Verified Carbon Standard, The Gold Standard, Climate Action Reserve, etc.)
• CARBONETZ integration to Carbon Registries and compliance verification entities

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

CARBONETZ intends to fix a huge problem in the Carbon-Credit markets and that is verification and validation of permanent carbonn sequestration in proven amounts via the immutable data trusted independent CARBONETZ dApp, teams and methods documented according to accepted protocols.

The deliverables and intended outcomes of each milestone are the work of this phase of the project.

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

As it grows and diversifies, CARVBONETZ holds huge potential for IOG as the scale of this initiative grows and evolves tools for users across agriculture and other Carbon-Credits relative to carbon capture and storage (CCS) in biological carbon-sinks (agriculture, forestry, aquaculture).

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

"World registers hottest day ever recorded on July 3”

Reuters | July 5, 2023. 

IOG will be an integral partner with CARBONETZ as we grow across Africa, developing and developed nations as we bring millions of farmers onboard to validate and trade their Carbon Farming efforts (relative to agriculture, forestry and aquaculture) across the globe.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept