Carbon data standardization challenge manifests differently across the carbon market value chain, but the underlying inefficiency touches every market participant.

Just as Tim Berners-Lee's HTML and HTTP protocols transformed the internet from disconnected resources into an intuitive system, the carbon markets need their own standardization revolution.

CDOP - the Carbon Data Open Protocol - will harmonize the definitions and rules that standardize data describing carbon crediting projects and carbon credits across markets, geographies and activity types.