Nature Tech Demo Day: Real-World Tools for Inclusive Nature Markets
This interactive session spotlights pioneering digital platforms that leverage blockchain and decentralized technologies to strengthen community participation and guarantee transparency in carbon and biodiversity credit markets. Attendees will experience solutions that:
Automate and verify the traceability and integrity of nature credit transactions
Enable transparent, equitable benefit-sharing with local and Indigenous communities
Empower project developers and stakeholders to collaboratively track, report, and share data in real-time
Showcase participatory platforms designed to build local trust and ensure community voices are integrated in decision-making and distribution of rewards
By grounding demonstrations in real-world use cases, the session will explore how these tools are bridging the trust gap and enabling inclusive, high-integrity nature markets.
Why this focus?
According to NTC and its members, transparency, community engagement, and accountability are the most critical challenges limiting the scale and credibility of nature-based solutions, especially in markets for carbon and biodiversity credits. Gaps have been highlighted in stakeholder trust, standardized benefit-sharing, data integrity, and locally meaningful participation.
Current industry gaps:
MRV complexity: Measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) remains technically challenging, often leading to data and trust gaps.
Fragmented solutions: Many communities and project developers find it difficult to navigate the market fragmentation and match needs with scalable, trustworthy tools.
Benefit-sharing and community buy-in: Ensuring transparency and fairness in how benefits (monetary or other) are distributed remains an industry-wide hurdle, particularly for Indigenous and local communities.
Need for demonstrable impact: There is demand for platforms that go beyond theoretical benefits, allowing participants to see and validate real impact in practice.