Abstract
Volume I of the Intelligence Economy Institute's study of the infrastructure behind high-integrity climate assets — MRV (measurement, reporting, verification), digital verification, registries, certification, and finance — produced in partnership with the ReTech Center at École des Ponts Business School. It moves from measurement to bankability, Article 6 readiness, and high-integrity environmental markets, establishing the foundations on which a tonne of abatement can be measured, trusted, and financed. Its organising discipline: a tonne that cannot be measured cannot be trusted; a tonne that cannot be trusted cannot be sold; and a tonne sold twice was never abated at all.
About this report
This is Volume I of the Intelligence Economy Institute's study of Climate Integrity Infrastructure — the MRV (measurement, reporting, verification), digital verification, registries, certification, and finance infrastructure for climate assets — produced in partnership with the ReTech Center at École des Ponts Business School. It carries the argument from measurement to bankability, Article 6 readiness, and high-integrity environmental markets.
Volume I lays the foundations: what it takes for a tonne of abatement to be measured, trusted, and financed. Its organising discipline is a single chain that the rest of the work keeps from collapsing:
A tonne that cannot be measured cannot be trusted; a tonne that cannot be trusted cannot be sold; and a tonne sold twice was never abated at all.
It is an independent research work. The analysis reflects standards, rules, methodologies, and market data verified as current to the 2025–2026 research cutoff; many frameworks discussed are under active revision, and status statements are time-stamped in the text. Nothing in the volume constitutes legal, financial, investment, accounting, or tax advice.