TenzaOne takes a project developer from "I have a site" to "I have certified carbon credits" under Verra VCS or Gold Standard, with AI agents closing the readiness gap at each step. Steps 1–5 and 7 are live, step 6 is partial; registry submission and on-chain anchoring are on the roadmap. Upload your documents: our AI agents save you the typing.
Standard WordPress account + optional PeepSo profile. No invitation gating — anyone with a project idea can start. Your account anchors every assessment, commit, and cooperative membership you'll accumulate below.
Upload your feasibility / design docs to the 15+ agents Credit-Readiness Pre-Assessment (Librarian · Project Details · Methodology · GHG Extract · GHG Calc · Monitoring · Safeguards · Auditor · Doc Health · Quick Assessment). The agents read the documents and fill in the project for you: no long forms. ~2–3 minutes end-to-end for a well-documented project.
tenza_project CPT with 40+ structured meta fields — queryable, exportable, API-readyAssessments are iterative. Upload new PDDs, monitoring data, calibration certs — re-run in one click. Prior scores are archived (_tenza_vcs_assessment_history); the best version always wins. Tier 0 → Tier 2+ as evidence matures.
The 11th agent. Reads your full assessment, your current phase, your score — and tells you concretely what to fix and how to fix it. Outputs summary + blockers + gap-fills + next-actions + integrity flags. Knows the VCS rules in force: Standard v4.7 (active until 1 Jul 2027) and v5.0 (most of its rules from 1 Jul 2027), the $3,750 registration review fee, the levy of $0.23 per claimed tCO₂e, the dMRV pilot.
The Credits Simulator turns your project into a credit and cash-flow forecast: 36 credit types (energy efficiency, renewables, storage, cookstoves, methane, nature-based, carbon removals), each with its registry's fees, buffer, timing to first issuance and crediting period. Two price levels per credit type: Standard (the market price) and High-integrity (CCP / CORSIA), where one is published.
The PDD Generation tab in the Project Re-Assessment app renders a complete VCS Project Design Document from your live assessment data. Print-to-PDF works today. When you click Commit ▾ Ed. 0 Assessment in the project's admin bar, we take a PDF snapshot, hash it, and anchor it as a Wallet Cert.
Small projects can't afford certification on their own. TenzaOne matches you to peers on methodology + project type + country + scale + readiness proximity. The Cooperative Fit card on your project shows your top 3 candidate peers. Once admin-accepted, a VCS grouped project (or a Gold Standard programme of activities, PoA) shares validation + MRV costs across the cohort.
Phases 4–8 of the diagram: registration (Verra) or design certification (Gold Standard), monitoring, VVB verification, credit issuance, retirement. Today: diagrammatic. Roadmap: Registry Submission + Verification Submission + Performance Checkpoint commits are already wired into the Commit dropdown — they unlock when the CAR pre-flight is clean / monitoring drafter signals ready / evidence chain populates. On-chain anchoring of the hash_payload lands after.
| Step | Data artifact | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Register user | WP user record | database |
| 2 Upload + assess | tenza_project post + _tenza_vcs_assessment_data JSON + readiness score + rule warnings | post meta |
| 3 Re-assess | Score history + evidence tier upgrade + commit-ready snapshot | post meta |
| 4 Coach | _tenza_vcs_coaching: summary · blockers · gap fills · next actions · integrity flags | structured JSON |
| 5 Forecast | Credits Simulator forecast: credits per year, fees, revenue, scenarios | CSV + PDF report |
| 6 PDD + commit | PDD render (HTML + PDF snapshot) + Ed. 0 Wallet Cert hash | PDF + SHA-256 |
| 7 Cooperative | Matched peers + Ed. 3 acceptance cert (on admin accept) | ranked list + cert |
| 8 Registry / MRV | Ed. 1.x / 2.x commits (Registry / Verification / Performance) · issued credits (external: VCUs or Gold Standard VERs) | cert + external |
Steps 1–5 · Verra rule checks (warnings) · Credits Simulator (36 credit types, two price levels) · Finance Calculator · PDD HTML render · Cooperative Matcher v1 · Commit Ed. 0 · 5 post-PDD agents · Developer API v0.1 · Meow MCP bridge
Step 6 PDD commit flow (print-to-PDF works; commit snapshot lands Round 9) · Ed. 1.x / 2.x / 3 commit unlocks gated on agent outputs
Gold Standard route in the assessment · Verra / Gold Standard submission automation · Streamr DePIN subscription · on-chain hash_payload anchoring · cohort governance / messaging · self-serve API keys
The full certification journey under Verra VCS or Gold Standard — and where TenzaONE's AI, IoT, DePIN and cooperative structure cut cost and amplify value at every stage.
After the certification journey above, TenzaOne extends project data into commercial products:
Beyond the core carbon credit stack, TenzaONE's DePIN + AI architecture extends to adjacent environmental certificate markets. Cards below are DRAFT — prices from the TenzaOne price feed where one exists; methodology pipeline active.
Gold Standard is the second large voluntary standard next to Verra VCS. It certifies the climate result and positive impacts on at least three Sustainable Development Goals (one of them SDG 13), runs its own Impact Registry and issues Gold Standard Verified Emission Reductions (GSVERs). Since 2026 every credit of vintage 2026 or later, and every project submitted after 30 June 2026, needs a Paris-aligned methodology. That decides which TenzaOne project types can use Gold Standard today.
| Project type | Verra VCS | Gold Standard | Open route today |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy efficiency (buildings, HVAC, motors) | AMS-II.C / AMS-II.E (small-scale) | Energy Systems & Efficiency requirements (8 Oct 2026) cover buildings; no Paris-aligned efficiency methodology published yet; industry waits for AR 203 (draft until 20 Nov 2026) | Verra |
| Solar thermal process heat | AMS-I.C | SPARK draft, a Paris-aligned framework incl. AMS-I.C (consultation until 8 Nov 2026) | Verra |
| Grid-connected solar PV, wind (more than 50% exported) | VMR0017 from 1 Jan 2027; only in least developed countries (VCS Table 1) unless VMR0017's own list applies | G-RESET v1.0 or A6.4-AMM-003 in any country that passes additionality (none issued yet); the host country's NDC decides whether credits can back offsetting claims | Gold Standard outside LDCs; both in LDCs. CORSIA excludes plants above 15 MW |
| Captive solar, floating PV, concentrated solar power | Not excluded by Table 1 (renewable methodology of the activity) | Captive supply eligible in every country, additionality required (G-RESET) | Both |
| Battery / electricity storage | Storage inside a VMR0017 renewable project, under its conditions; Verra's storage draft (CN0157) archived | G-RESET Module ST (8 Oct 2026); none issued yet | Gold Standard |
| Thermal storage supplying heat | No storage methodology (CN0157 archived); the delivered heat may count under AMS-I.C or AMS-II.C (to be confirmed) | No Paris-aligned heat methodology yet | None confirmed for storage itself; Verra for the solar heat |
| Cookstoves | VM0050 (metered) | RECH v5.0, MECD v2.0, SMEC v4.0 (Paris-aligned, 5 May 2026) | Both |
| Landfill gas | ACM0001 (CCP-approved for gas not used for power, or power plants of 10 MWe or less) | A6.4-AMM-001 replaces ACM0001 (flaring-only not eligible) | Both |
| CCUS / carbon removal | VM0049 | No point-source methodology; mineralisation, concrete carbonation and biomass-fermentation CCS published; biochar in draft; no DAC | Verra or removal registries |
From 1 Jan 2026 every GSVER of vintage 2026 or later needs a Paris-aligned methodology; non-aligned methodologies stopped at 31 Dec 2025. Projects submitted for Preliminary Review after 30 Jun 2026 must use an aligned methodology from the start.
Aligned baselines sit below business-as-usual, so credit volumes are generally lower. Where the aligned methodology is not published yet, the submission deadline is waived: submit within six months of its publication; certified projects ready to verify vintages 2026+ wait in Deferred Issuance until then.
Certification is only half the story. A verified credit (a Verra VCU or a Gold Standard VER) still has to find a buyer, change hands — often several times — and ultimately be retired to back a specific corporate claim. This panel walks the post-issuance pipeline and shows where TenzaOne sits as a forwards-orchestrator and marketplace middleman translating futures contracts into either cash settlement or physical delivery of credits.
TenzaOne writes the forward contract between host buyer and project developer. Settlement at maturity: cash (if price moved against delivery) or physical delivery of credits (if buyer wants the credits for compliance / claim).
Buyer's choice at settlement. Contract structure locks volume + tier; price indexed or fixed-forward.
Facilitates primary-market listing, integrates with CBL for secondary liquidity, and brokers OTC tickets. Facilitation fee 1–2.5% (per Rulebook v1.1 — not the full 10% myth).
Ticket size + tier drive the exact fee. Repeat-developer discount available.
The Credits Simulator turns a project into credits per year, registry fees (Verra or Gold Standard), buffer and revenue at both price levels; the Credits Futures Simulator models future prices for forward contracts.
DePIN/AI-anchored data + SHA-256 blockchain anchor = retirement certificate carries an auditable chain back through the full DePIN stack (sensors → BMS → AI → DePIN → blockchain).
Buyers use this trail for VCMI Claim-Code integrity + Scope 3 disclosure.
| Contract | Venue | Lot | Key date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CBL GEO | CME | 1,000 tCO₂e | Dec 2027 delivery | Most-traded VCM futures |
| CBL N-GEO | CME | 1,000 tCO₂e | Dec 2029 delivery | Nature-based only |
| CBL C-GEO | CME | 1,000 tCO₂e | Thin liquidity | CORSIA-aligned aviation |
| CBL SD-GEO | CME | 1,000 tCO₂e | Vintage roll: July 1 | SDG-tagged co-benefit credits |
| Article 6 / ICM | — | — | 2026 target | No liquid futures yet |
India's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) is phased-live but not yet trading. Legally-binding targets are notified for 7 of 9 sectors (Oct 2025 + Jan 2026), covering ~740 entities and ~700 Mt CO₂e — roughly 16% of India's emissions. First exchange trading is expected November 2026 – January 2027 (Bureau of Energy Efficiency, as of 22 Oct 2026). Three-body governance: MoEFCC notifies targets, BEE administers + issues + operates the registry, CERC regulates trading on the power exchanges.
No official bridge exists. Policy signals discourage double-issuance; no explicit prohibition text found. TenzaOne recommendation: pick one track per project until BEE gazettes formal guidance.
Not without Article 6 corresponding adjustment. CCCs are domestic by design. Foreign buyers aligning with SBTi / CBAM need CA-tagged credits, which CCTS doesn't provide by default.
Yes — with friction. India did not ban international voluntary issuance (despite Aug 2022 pressure). BEE launched a parallel voluntary offset mechanism in March 2025 (v1, 8 methodologies). Selective export relaxations ongoing.
Gradual migration in flight. Surplus ESCerts likely convertible to CCCs at a to-be-gazetted ratio. PAT trading was thin — CCTS scepticism is shaped by that experience.
CBAM (EU Reg. 2023/956) puts a price on the embedded CO₂ of carbon-intensive goods imported into the EU — iron & steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, electricity, hydrogen — mirroring the EU-ETS price so imports can't undercut EU producers (“carbon leakage”). The definitive, paying phase began 1 Jan 2026; the first certificates are surrendered by ~30 Sep 2027 for 2026. The EU importer pays. Crucially, CBAM is a compliance instrument — a different thing from voluntary carbon credits (see the guardrail below).
By reducing embedded emissions — not by offsetting. Climatenza decarbonises steel, cement, aluminium and similar (all CBAM goods). Every tonne of CO₂ removed from production lowers the good's embedded emissions, and therefore the EU importer's CBAM certificate cost.
No. Voluntary credits are explicitly excluded. Only a carbon price paid at origin is deductible. Keep the voluntary and compliance markets strictly separate (see guardrail).
Default values are punitive; verified actuals are cheaper. But actual data must be primary, installation-level and third-party verified. A tamper-evident, source-anchored emissions record is exactly CBAM's weak point — and it directly saves money.
Same data family. The EU Digital Product Passport (the asserro / porta line) carries a product's embedded carbon, and a product aggregates its CBAM-good inputs. Verified embedded carbon is dual-use — DPP today, CBAM-consumable tomorrow.
Whether a credit can be counted, claimed, or sold across borders depends on two overlays sitting on top of the issuance process: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (the inter-country accounting rules) and the integrity labels that corporate buyers now demand (ICVCM CCP, VCMI Claims Code, SBTi alignment). Both have shifted materially in 2024–2025 and directly shape what credits are worth to serious buyers.
Executed August 2025. Only executed bilateral between India and any partner. Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) framework; ITMOs flow with corresponding adjustment.
India is in active negotiation with Singapore, Sweden, South Korea, UAE, and the EU. No executed deals with those parties as of April 2026.
Green hydrogen · offshore wind · SAF (sustainable aviation fuel) · CCUS · grid-scale storage · low-carbon cement · electric mobility · biochar · waste-to-energy · efficient cookstoves · advanced biofuels · REDD+ · blue carbon.
Approved methodologies include cookstoves and jurisdictional REDD+ (2025).
ACM0002 paradox: the renewable-energy methodology was rejected Aug 2024 — yet ACM0002 credits remain the most-retired credit type six months later. Supply glut + legacy inventory trumps the new label short-term.
Verra is scrapping AMS-II.G and replacing VMR0006/VMR0011 with new M0174. Storage: Verra's storage draft (CN0157) was archived in January 2026; Gold Standard published G-RESET V1.0, the first method for storage credits, on 8 Oct 2026 (it credits stored electricity only; heat needs a separate method). No storage credits have been issued yet.
The August 2025 update enforces CCP-label or Article 6.4 credits for any VCMI claim — from January 1, 2026. This is the single biggest buyer-side shift of the past year.
Practical impact: Silver / Gold / Platinum tiers of VCMI claims all need CCP-or-6.4 supply now. Non-CCP credits don't disappear from the market, but corporates using VCMI's framework can't count them.
Post July 2024 Board statement, SBTi permits offsets under specific Scope 3 conditions (previously near-total prohibition in near-term targets). Still cautious: removals preferred over avoidance; durability + vintage scrutiny tight.
Tech premium implication: SBTi-aligned buyers push price signal toward durable removals (biochar, DAC, mineralisation) — not IoT/DePIN verification per se.