Gold Standard has announced a partnership with climate technology firm Trovio to replace its existing Impact Registry with a next-generation platform, aiming to improve interoperability across national registries, exchanges, and marketplaces while preserving full traceability of carbon credits.
The Geneva-based carbon standards body said the upgraded registry, built on Trovio’s CorTenX platform, will modernize the system that tracks the certification status of climate projects and records the full lifecycle of issued products from issuance through transfer to retirement.
The core architectural change is a move to an API-first design, underpinned by cryptographically verifiable infrastructure, which the organizations say will provide tamper-resistant auditability and full chain-of-custody traceability.
External systems, including national registries, exchanges, and trading platforms, will be able to connect directly through secure, standardized application programming interfaces (APIs), enabling cross-border integration that the current system does not easily support.
“As carbon markets move into the next generation, the infrastructure supporting them must also evolve,” said Margaret Kim, CEO of Gold Standard, said in a comment to Wednesday’s announcement. “This partnership enables the next evolution of registry systems, designed for interoperability, scalability and transparency, while maintaining the integrity and credibility the market depends on.”
For project developers, the new platform is expected to offer better visibility of project data and more efficient interaction across the wider registry ecosystem.
Buyers and credit holders will gain stronger transparency and reporting tools to support corporate disclosure requirements, while traders and market participants will benefit from smoother connections to exchanges and settlement systems.
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Jon Deane, CEO of Trovio, said CorTenX was built specifically to deliver “the interoperability, transparency, and auditability required for the next generation of environmental market infrastructure.”
Trovio has previously delivered registry infrastructure for the Australian Government and for the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism.
The new registry is planned to launch in Q4 2026, preceded by a structured testing and onboarding period. Existing accounts, credit holdings, and user access will be migrated without disruption.
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