Our Markets
Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency
The MM Earth Platform support 3rd Party verified voluntary carbon markets by offering trading for “Impact” carbon credits that reduce or offset emissions and provide additional social or environmental benefits. In the energy sector, we will support transactions in renewable energy credits (RECs) and energy efficiency certificates.
Sustainable Commodity Certificates
There are many efforts focused on improving environmental and or social
conditions within multiple agriculture supply chains in specifically in the developing world. These mechanisms use the “Book and Claim” method that enables a company purchasing the certificates to promote and benefit from the sustainability claims without buying the actual commodity itself. MM Earth supports the facilitation of sustainable commodity certificate transactions.
Catch Shares
Transferable Fisheries Quota also called “Catch Shares” give the holder the right to harvest a certain percentage of the Total Allowable Catch (TAC) in a specific fishery. Some fisheries allow holders to transfer, sell, or rent these quotas. The Earth Platform will provide market participants with price transparency and a cost effective way to trade and lease quota.
Wetland Mitigation & Conservation Banking
These conservation finance mechanisms offset development impacts and allow a value to be placed on conserving or restoring wetlands, critical habitats, and biodiversity. Wetland and Conservation banking generates an estimated $1.5 – 2.4 billion annually in the US. The MM Earth Platform is a transaction platform for buyers and sellers of these credits.
Water
Water quality and quantity markets are fragmented and regional in nature. For water quality – also called “nutrient trading” – polluting point sources regulated by the Clean Water Act can purchase credits generated by farmers and other non-point sources who reduce pollution. The Earth Platform allows trades in water quality credits and water supply rights.
Development Rights & Conservation Agreements
Landowners, farmers, conservation organizations, and land trusts across the country are using state and municipal based incentives to keep land under desirable land uses such as working forests, traditional farmland, or natural habitat. The Earth Platform can be used for tradable tax credits, transferable development rights, and state supported conservation easements.