Trust infrastructure
EcoConnect is designed around practical controls that a skeptical grant reviewer, buyer, or registry partner can inspect before approving expansion beyond a pilot.
Integrity factors
Each factor is documented, weighted, and visible to reviewers. The integrity score is transparent — it does not pretend to be official certification.
Documentation that the project would not have occurred without carbon finance, with regulatory baselines considered.
Plans, buffer pools, and contingency arrangements that protect against reversal risk over the credit lifetime.
Analysis of activity shifts that could move emissions outside the project boundary.
Evidence of human-rights, indigenous, gender, and biodiversity safeguards with stakeholder engagement.
Registry linkage, serial-number tracking, and corresponding-adjustment evidence to prevent the same credit being claimed twice.
Documented retirement records and beneficiary claims language with traceable references.
Coverage of the full evidence pack: methodology, monitoring, validation, verification, governance, and audit.
Nothing hidden
Every significant risk is named, mitigated, and owner-assigned. Reviewers should expect this level of candour.
Confirm applicant legal status, jurisdiction, tax registration, beneficial ownership, authorized signatory, match funding, and program-specific cost eligibility before submission.
Owner · Finance & Compliance lead
Use conservative claims language, require project evidence, track retirement proof, and separate verified climate outcomes from platform activity metrics.
Owner · Head of integrity
Keep the MVP as a discovery/reporting pilot until legal review confirms the path for exchange, broker, payment, and custody functions.
Owner · General counsel
Use bottom-up pilot metrics, conservative scenarios, and validation evidence instead of promising market dominance or guaranteed investor returns.
Owner · Product & strategy lead
Start with documented public profiles and manual review, then add APIs only after data-rights and partner agreements are signed.
Owner · Head of partnerships
Add role-based access, encryption, audit logging, privacy assessments, vendor reviews, retention policies, and incident response before production data intake.
Owner · CTO / security lead
Pre-onboard verification partners, document handoffs, and design queue-friendly evidence workflows.
Owner · Head of integrity
Embed approved claims templates in reports, restrict free-text claims, and flag misuse via audit logs.
Owner · Head of integrity
Control baseline
These controls should be completed before EcoConnect processes sensitive organisation data, live transactions, or regulated financial flows.
Integrity scoring controls
Additionality, permanence, leakage, safeguards, double-counting, retirement evidence, and documentation completeness checks per project.
Partner KYC and screening
Future buyer and project-developer onboarding with KYC, sanctions, beneficial-ownership screening, and conflict-of-interest disclosure.
Information security
Role-based access control, audit logging, encrypted storage, incident response, and DPIA before any private data processing.
Claims governance
Approved claims templates so buyers understand what they can and cannot say after a purchase or retirement.
Independent monitoring
Independent monitoring and evaluation to prevent self-reported impact inflation and to satisfy grant accountability.
Registry linkage
Project profiles linked to registry IDs, serial numbers, retirement records, and corresponding-adjustment status.