The guest for this episode is Dinesh Babu Nithyanandam, Executive Director of Climate Action Data Trust. CAD trust is a decentralized metadata platform that links, aggregates, and harmonizes all major carbon credit registry data to enhance transparent accounting in line with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Topics discussed in this episode:

0:00 Introduction

0:40 Introduction of Dinesh and CAD trust

4:26 CAD Trust: Linking, Aggregating, Harmonizing

8:14 CAD Trust’s blockchain technology & benefits

11:21 The Power of Data

18:45 CAD’s funding model

26:57 Challenges

35:37 Plans for this Year

38:08 Mitigating Double Counting Risks

40:34 Evolution of CAD Trust in the Future