Digitally interconnecting ESG markets to achieve Net Zero

COP28 and Euromoney award-winning climate fintech platform-as-a-service, enabling regulated digital issuance, custody, investment, trading and settlement of green and natural real-world assets (RWAs), including carbon credits and sustainable critical minerals

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What We Do

An automated AI and blockchain-driven international RWA and carbon credits exchange, registry and aggregation hub and ecosystem.

Built on a distributed ‘hub-and-spoke‘ model with secure digital rails, ZERO13 enables both sovereign and private-sector green and natural RWAs to be structured, invested in, and traded through an integrated asset settlement network connected to global investors and regulated market infrastructure.

By bridging traditional finance (Web2) and digital finance (Web3), ZERO13 addresses market fragmentation, geopolitical risk, and trade inefficiencies, supporting scalable capital flows into climate action, natural capital, and strategic resource security across water, energy, food, and sustainable critical minerals.

How We Do It

Platform Distribution

ZERO13 operates a distributed hub-and-spoke network that connects sovereign and private green RWAs to an investment and trading platform, with an asset settlement layer linking registries, custodians, investors and traditional/digital markets.

Asset Monetisation

The ZERO13 platform enables the monetisation of public and private sector digitised green RWAs related to water, energy, food and resource-related financial security (including critical minerals and carbon credits concessions) through the facilitation of investment from public and private markets.

Why We Do It

There is a multi-trillion-dollar climate and associated sustainable commodities financing gap hindering a climate resilient future.

Geopolitical risks, trade wars, the exponential growth in AI and Web3 are fuelling the need to recalibrate capital towards sustainable critical minerals, rare earth elements and associated commodity-linked digital real-world assets (RWAs).

Yet financial capacity building is being hindered by fragmented, siloed and analogue approaches impacting ‘source to sale’ provenance.

There is a huge need for platform infrastructure to interlink the fragmented climate and sustainable commodities markets to ensure interoperability and facilitate cross-border trade, but sustainability has to be economically sustainable, and therefore investible.

With ZERO13, green RWA and carbon markets participants benefit from:

  • Increased trust through automated verification, no double counting or green washing
  • Greater digital issuance, custody, investment, trading and settlement workflow efficiencies from fewer intermediaries, regulated price transparency, integrated silos, and green RWA and carbon markets aggregation
  • A solution that understands the market needs of industrial operators, corporates, institutional investors, sovereign countries and their communities

Use Cases

Exponential growth in AI and Web3 is heightening demand for rare earth elements and critical minerals, with ZERO13 poised to deliver.

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Think of a sovereign-backed critical minerals initiative, where mineral cashflows from royalties and offtake create long-term value alongside tailings recovery and cleaner operations. With ZERO13, these outcomes can be digitised into sovereign-guaranteed tokens or mineral-linked assets, with high-integrity carbon credits naturally produced as a measurable byproduct.

These can collectively generate yield or outright return for investors as well as trading opportunities.

Settlement between counterparties with off ledger and on ledger payments can be facilitated.

Partners & Key Profiles

Featured Partners

Leadership Team

Hirander has extensive electronic trading and FinTech expertise spanning 28 years, with successful syndication to investors and substantial exits. He is Chairman & CEO of GMEX Group and its climate fintech platform-as-a-service ZERO13, which won the COP 28 UAE TechSprint for use of blockchain to scale climate finance. He is one of the Top 10 influential business leaders of blockchain technology in the UK All Party Parliamentary Group report and is also featured in LATTICE80’s Top 100 influencer list for the UN Sustainable Developments Goal agenda for pioneering blockchain technology solutions. Hirander was also recognised as the Most Influential CEO 2024 – UK (Carbon Credits) by CEO Monthly, a digital magazine published by AI Global Media.

Tony has substantial digital transformation consulting, FinTech capital markets and blockchain technology experience with extensive board and C-level expertise. He is Co-Founder of GMEX Group GMEX Group and responsible for all technology related delivery and oversight.

Lincoln has extensive international enterprise and consumer data management experience within intergovernmental cooperation projects.
Lincoln has extensive international enterprise and consumer data management experience within intergovernmental cooperation projects. Lincoln is in charge of driving the climate project investment facilitation and trading businesses of ZERO13 and also focusing on carbon projects within the Ghana–Singapore bilateral agreement for ITMO trading under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement amongst other key initiatives.

Melanie has over 25 years in strategic marketing and communications, specialising in financial services and FinTech sectors. She delivers strategic marketing and communication solutions, strengthens brand positioning, and builds relationships that support business growth and foster client loyalty.

Board Advisors

Richard has more than 20 years experience in markets, markets technology and the evolution of market structure gained from holding a range of senior positions at leading international trading venues. Richard has provided the business leadership and vision for the development of the cash equity market, trading products, and cash and derivatives trading platforms at two of the world’s top 10 exchanges.

Sinnthya Macek is a purpose-driven entrepreneur and sustainability advocate with a background in Economics and Luxury Management. As the Founder of Sustainable Solutions LLC in the UAE, she helps organisations integrate sustainability through innovative strategies and high-performance standards. As a strong advocate for sustainability and global consciousness, Sinnthya plays a pivotal role in helping businesses and corporations reimagine their operations through the lens of sustainability.

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With over 13 years of experience in blockchain and emerging digital technologies, Leandro is a seasoned innovator and specialist in cloud security. Having founded three tech startups, he combines entrepreneurial insight with deep technical expertise, consistently driving forward agile, security-oriented development practices. A pioneer in integrating smart contracts into carbon trading systems, he bridges sustainability with technological advancement, offering rapid, effective solutions to complex challenges in digital transformation.

Jens Felder is a seasoned senior software engineer specializing in developing cutting-edge financial and cryptocurrency solutions with extensive experience in fintech, crypto, digital assets, and blockchain technology. At GMEX Group’s ZERO13, Jens plays a central role in creating an award-winning blockchain-driven platform for carbon credits and ESG assets, significantly enhancing efficiency, transparency, and interoperability across various APIs and blockchains. Previously at Yolo Group, Jens initiated and led the business project for a centralized crypto lending platform, securing collaboration with ConsenSys for its initial deployment. He also designed and deployed a tokenization model for a crypto casino utilizing decentralized economics. Recognized for his strategic vision and technical leadership, Jens successfully managed the full lifecycle of complex software projects, building and guiding high-performing, cross-functional teams to achieve critical business objectives.

Panos is a blockchain and backend engineer with hands-on experience in both enterprise blockchain systems and open source ecosystems. With a strong foundation in software engineering and algorithms, he focuses on building scalable, secure infrastructure and protocol-level solutions. His work combines technical depth with a practical understanding of decentralized systems, making him a valuable contributor to innovative, impact-driven blockchain projects.

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