Unlock access to the Carbon Emission Credit asset class for retail investors
ֿDomain: Carbon emissions
When: 2021, for 5 months
Team skillset: Tech/data science with some business and entrepreneurial experience
Thesis/idea
Unlock access to the CEC (Carbon Emissions Credit) asset class for retail investors.
- The idea was to build a trading app for retail investors (B2C), that enables trading in CEC and co-investing in projects that generate CEC.
- There are multiple CEC exchanges in the world, including the European exchange, which has an annual volume of $250B. There are additional ways in which large corporations offset carbon, for instance by funding environmental projects that result in CEC and generate $ value.
- Over time it is expected that the market for CEC will keep growing.
- Today, the CEC asset class is entirely inaccessible to retail investors and is strictly for institutional investors. Ironically, Gen Zs increasingly care about their own carbon emission.
- Solutions exist. For example, offsetting the CE of a plane ticket by “planting” a tree.
- Having a way for consumers to invest and manage their CECs would grow the market, introduce more capital into it, and could result in a significantly bigger market.
Today, the CEC asset class is entirely inaccessible to retail investors and is strictly for institutional investors. Ironically, Gen Zs increasingly care about their own carbon emission.
