Carbon financing & markets

Containing global warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels requires CO2 emissions to be at around 20 billion tons in 2030. At the present emissions rate, it is predicted that CO2 emissions will increase to a substantially higher level - 37 billion by 2030.

Over 190 parties signed the Paris Agreement (in 2015) with national carbon reductions to be met by 2030. At COP26 in 2021, pledges were being revised with the top 50% of emitters, some 59 countries, committing to “net-zero” emissions by 2050.

Emission reduction credits (or "carbon credits") that are traded in carbon credits markets are an important driver in enabling carbon reduction or carbon avoidance projects and initiatives to be implemented involving the private sector and to meet “net-zero” ambitions at the entity and national levels.

Structuring and raising financing against carbon credits that may be traded in carbon markets is critical to attract participants and generate sufficient volumes of “net-zero” related investments. Apta Ventures is working with the a global financial institution and the private sector in the transport and energy industries on addressing this problem.