This week, four Bridge Carbon projects went live on the Centigrade platform, representing a new blueprint for transparent, high-integrity climate action.
“Bridge and Centigrade are showcasing the future of carbon markets. This is a system where trust is earned, data is open, and climate impact is real.”
– Jules Kortenhorst (CEO of Bridge Carbon)
Together, Bridge Carbon and Centigrade establish a paradigm in which the data underpinning a credit is accessible, verifiable, and responsive to new science. This approach rewards developers for quality and allows carbon liability to transfer with traceable data, not blind faith. This paradigm—and these projects—are anchored in:
- Live, transparent dMRV data;
- Accessible and interactive project data; and
- Standardized data structures.
Grounding Credits with Dynamic and Transparent dMRV
The foundation of a robust carbon market is high-quality carbon data. Digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (dMRV) is central to building the trust infrastructure that allows stakeholders to confidently assess complex project claims.
Bridge Carbon reimagines how to monitor and report impact, implementing dMRV at unprecedented scale. In partnership with Geocene, they’ve developed a cookstove monitoring system which goes far beyond both methodological requirements and industry standards.
Geocene’s Stove Use Monitors (SUMs) generate encrypted, tamper-proof records of daily usage for thousands of stoves. Centigrade integrates directly with Geocene to attach the data seamlessly to Bridge’s projects.
Making Project Data Accessible and Interactive
Bridge Carbon’s data comes alive on Centigrade, where key features transform complex project documents and equations into interactive, digestible insights:
- AI-Powered Summaries distill extensive project information into clear and concise syntheses.
- The Interactive Equation Explorer breaks down the emission reduction or removal calculations and parameters that underpin every credit.
- AI Search lets users ask questions and receive summarized answers pulling directly from the source data.
This approach departs from the traditional “black box” model of carbon credits. Instead of asking stakeholders to trust opaque claims, Centigrade has built tools to help users navigate, understand, and evaluate project data in real-time.
The Power of Structured Data: CCDF as the Foundation
Underneath it all is the open-source Carbon Crediting Data Framework (CCDF), spearheaded by the Rocky Mountain Institute. This foundational architecture ensures project data is not only transparent, but also standardized and interoperable.
To further explore Centigrade’s approach, watch the recording of the Rocky Mountain Institute’s recent webinar featuring Donee Alexander (Bridge Carbon’s Chief Science Officer) and Octavia Carbon.
A Blueprint for Market Transformation
This partnership previews a future for the carbon market where project data is open by default, buyers can evaluate credits with confidence, and every credit sold comes with a clear, traceable chain of scientific evidence.
“It’s time to move past the status quo. The tools to make carbon markets accountable and effective now exist. Today is an invitation to use them”.
– Andreas Merkl (co-founder of Centigrade)