Ecologico2, an Italian Startup, Aims to Certify Carbon Credits with Blockchain

Carbon credits could be a key tool in the realization of the ecological revolution and an important step toward a future of zero-impact production processes.

Through collaboration with Affidaty S.p.a. and the use of its T.R.I.N.C.I.® blockchain, Ecologico2, an innovative startup based at Tecnopolis, the Science and Technology Park in Bari, aims to create Italy’s first decentralized ecosystem for the exchange and monetization of carbon credits called Ecologico2 platform®.

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What are carbon credits

In general, certified carbon credits represent a security with which companies can reduce the environmental impact of their activities by supporting national and international sustainable development projects. This allows them to offset emissions by balancing them with other environmental protection initiatives, especially in poor and deprived areas of the Planet.

The operation of carbon credits begins with measuring the emissions produced by a company. An analysis carried out according to strict international standards. Then, the company can decide how to take action, reducing emissions as much as possible and converting the remainder into carbon credits.

Carbon credits can be traded on public and private markets. Current trading rules allow international transfer of credits Although carbon credits are beneficial to society, it is not easy for the average investor to start using them as investment instruments. Certified emission reductions (CERs) are the only product that can be used as an investment in credits. However, CERs are managed by special funds set up by large financial institutions, through which investors are forced to go through in order to invest in this market, making the process cumbersome and expensive.

Ecologico2 “tokenizes” carbon credits

Ecologico2’s certified carbon credits, through the use of blockchain, give the certainty of real, traceable projects with a measurable impact on the environment and their communities. Each carbon credit in our ecosystem, will be unique, real, measurable and verifiable, permanent.

The startup will also create an exchange to facilitate the exchange of certified carbon credits and offer consulting for the calculation of companies’ carbon footprint, ecological mitigation process, as well as certification of Carbon Credits for companies and farmers.

Tokens can be traded and entitled to revenue sharing

To foster the growth and ecological sustainability of the project, the startup created, using T.R.I.N.C.I.® blockchain technology, the Ecological-NFT (ECT): this represents 100 percent of the rights to the economic revenues from the Ecological2 platform® ecosystem. ECT consists of 1 billion accounting units called EcologicoToken ECT, with a nominal starting unit listing value of €2.80.

ECT thus represents the digital asset that entitles users to participate in the distribution of the economic revenues derived from Ecologico2 platform. Users may purchase EcologicoToken ECT up to a maximum of 20 percent of the equal 200,000,000 million. The rights to the revenues from the widespread Ecologico2 platform® will be allocated to the holders of EcologicoToken ECTs in percentage proportion to the amount held, as long as the user holds possession, a true economic bearer right.

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