Standards/Carbon/Mangroves

Carbon

Mangroves

Standards for mangrove restoration and blue carbon projects

Apply with a project How it works ↓v2025-04-01 · Third-party audited

How it works

From application to financial outcome.

An unbroken chain of evidence — from your field intervention to a verified digital asset that can be used in disclosures, sold in markets, or pledged in project finance structures.

Step 01 · OnboardingProject developer

Apply with your project

Register your mangrove site under the Mangroves methodology v1.1. You submit the location, intervention type, baseline canopy and biomass estimates, and ownership or management rights. An automated eligibility screen runs against the methodology's applicability criteria before your team invests further time.

Application

site, intervention, baseline

Eligibility screen

automated · criteria check

Project record

CT-PR-0442 created

Step 02 · Data intakeProject developer

Submit your measurement data

Connect your data sources — GPS field surveys, drone transects, acoustic sensors, or tidal gauge readings. The methodology specifies exactly which parameters are required at what resolution. Data is schema-validated on ingest, so gaps and format errors surface immediately rather than at the end of the verification cycle.

Drone & field surveys

Canopy cover, stem density, elevation, species IDs

Remote sensor feeds

Tidal gauges, soil carbon probes, salinometers

Validation on ingest

Units, spatial coverage, temporal gaps flagged immediately

Step 03 · VerificationCarbontribe platform

AI and scientists verify together

All submitted data runs through automated science checks against the version-locked methodology. Carbontribe AI detects anomalies, cross-references independent signals, and drafts structured findings with confidence scores. In-house scientists review every flagged item and provide the final sign-off.

Carbontribe AI

Anomaly detection across the full dataset. Cross-references satellite, sensor, and survey signals. Drafts findings and confidence scores at scale.

In-house scientists

Domain experts in coastal and mangrove ecology review every flag. They apply judgment the model cannot — and sign off the final result.

Step 04 · Digital-first MRVCarbontribe platform

Independent evidence, whatever the source

Beyond the data you submit, Carbontribe layers independent evidence from the best available sources for your context — satellite and aerial imagery, remote sensing, computer vision, physical models, acoustic sensors, or third-party databases. The MRV stack is assembled per-methodology and per-site: what matters is corroborating your ground data with independent signals, not which specific technology produces them.

Independent sources

satellite, sensors, databases

Analysis & modelling

per-methodology stack

Cross-validation

corroborate ground data

Verified outcome

142 ha · 8,420 tCO₂e

Step 05 · Anchor & IssuanceCarbontribe platform

Anchor to IPFS, mint as a digital token

Every input that isn't protected intellectual property — raw data, parameters, model code versions, satellite scene IDs, and the full verification trail — is content-addressed and pinned to IPFS. On scientist sign-off, the verified outcome is minted as an NFT on-chain whose metadata points back to that evidence bundle. The token is the canonical, transferable record of the result: one source of truth, queryable by anyone, revocable when methodology updates require it.

Evidence bundle · content-addressed

Proprietary model internals excluded

Satellite & drone imageryQmA9f1…c82a

Canopy cover model outputQm7e3c…1ff4

Methodology parameters · version-lockedQmd4f3…a91c

Analysis code versionmrp-engine v1.1.7

Verification reportQm8k2j…b07e

Satellite scene IDs22 scenes · pinned

CT-AS-01284
Carbon

Token standardERC-721 · Base

Verified value142 ha restored · 8,420 tCO₂e

Metadata URIipfs://QmA9f1…c82a

Biodiversity scoreSTAR Metric · 0.84 MSA·km²

StateLive · transferable

Step 06 · UseBuyer / project developer

Burn to disclosures, unlock financial benefits

When a buyer retires (burns) the asset, its verified values can be mapped into structured disclosure outputs — TNFD LEAP narratives, CSRD ESRS E4, IFRS S1/S2 metrics, and GRI 304. The same asset also unlocks financial pathways: project finance against a forward credit stream, IR reporting with an on-chain audit trail, voluntary market trading, and Scope 3 supply-chain claims. One evidenced result, many downstream uses.

TNFD

LEAP narrative

Location-specific LEAP (Locate–Evaluate–Assess–Prepare) for the mangrove estuary, covering biodiversity dependencies and impacts

CSRD E4

ESRS E4 data

Biodiversity impact metrics, habitat area affected, SBTN-aligned targets and remediation evidence for CSRD mandatory reporters

IFRS S2

Nature risk metrics

Physical and transition risk exposure reduction evidence across all four S1/S2 pillars, audit-grade

GRI 304

Biodiversity responses

GRI 304-1 through 304-4 · habitats protected, species impacted, IUCN red list status, restoration area

Project finance

Borrow against a forward stream of verified biodiversity and carbon credits, closing the financing gap at a competitive rate.

Investor relations

Report verified nature-positive outcomes in IR, annual reports, and ESG supplements — with an on-chain audit trail.

Supply-chain nature claims

Substantiate Scope 3 biodiversity and blue-carbon claims to buyers or regulators requiring location-specific evidence.

Blue-carbon markets

Transfer or retire credits on voluntary carbon and nature markets with a full evidence trail attached to the token.

Developed by

Carbontribe Labs OÜ

Audited by

Earthood

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