After a successful series A fundraise, I am super excited to announce that I am joining Blue Carbon S2C P/L as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. What started as an idea between four of us a little over a year ago, has blossomed into a company that is driving significant positive change in the battle against climate change using nature-based solutions.

“S2C” stands for Sequestration to Credits. We are creating high quality, high integrity carbon credits through nature-based solutions at scale, and documenting every step of the operational process from baseline inspection through to measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of carbon credits and co-benefits. We are working closely with many stakeholders, including three levels of government, land owners, local communities and indigenous peoples to satisfy the requirements of international crediting standards and local carbon management codes of conduct while ensuring the restoration of natural ecosystems to contribute social, economic and environmental benefits.

Verity Carbon™, our Web3 based digital MRV platform, transparently shares the steps of our processes for public and buyer verification through the Polygon blockchain (sidechain of Ethereum) and the FileCoin Green InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). Our platform meets the guiding principles of the Australian Emission Reduction Fund (ERF) and the international principals that underpin VERRA and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). Verity Carbon™ is ready to contribute to the Climate Action Data Trust open-source metadata system to increase integrity in carbon credit data and help build confidence in carbon markets.

Leveraging Polygon and FileCoin Green, which are both carbon neutral services, Verity Carbon™ will be climate positive at every scale of operation; we will use a few of our own carbon credits to offset any excess emissions from all other data center operations.

I recently traveled to one of our project areas in one of the most remote wilderness areas left on the planet, and saw firsthand how climate change has negatively affected the local ecosystems.

While it was disheartening and quite an emotional experience, it has given me even more personal motivation to help fix the climate change problems by developing a technology toolbox to help nature based solutions. We have many of the solutions in hand, and over a phased approach, these ecosystems will be restored and thrive once again.