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CarbonGrade: Market Trust Framework

Carbon Finance Labs · 2026 · Licensed CC BY 4.0

Trust is the scarcest commodity in carbon markets. CarbonGrade compresses additionality, permanence, measurement rigour, and co-benefits into a single comparable score, modelled on bond and equity rating frameworks. Trust infrastructure on which a liquid, credible carbon market can be built.

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Carbon Finance Lab (2026). CarbonGrade: Market Trust Framework. Carbon Finance Lab. https://carbonfinancelab.com/carbongrade/

@misc{carbongrade_market_trust_2026,
  author = {Carbon Finance Lab},
  title = {CarbonGrade: Market Trust Framework},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Carbon Finance Lab},
  howpublished = {\url{https://carbonfinancelab.com/carbongrade/}}
}