ZERO13 – Carbon Credits & ESG Real World Assets Ecosystem

Globally Connecting

Marketplaces & Exchanges

Registries

Banks & Custodians

Buyers & Sellers

ClimateTech Firms & FinTechs

About ZERO13

ZERO13 is helping to achieve Net Zero by combining AI and blockchain to restore trust in carbon credit markets, addressing greenwashing, double counting, price transparency, vertical silos and market fragmentation.

The ZERO13 team is passionate about its mission and commitment to using Climate Fintech as a catalyst to help decarbonize the world, and achieve carbon neutrality. ZERO13 is the only end-to-end global carbon credits exchange, registry and participant aggregation platform ecosystem that:

Enables supply, verification and transparent pricing for carbon credits

Provides efficient trading, exchange matching and real-time settlement of traditional and digital carbon credits, and other ESG assets

Reduces market friction in a carbon constrained world

Why ZERO13

Our purpose lies in our name

ZERO = the drive to achieve Net Zero.

13 = United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) 13, which urges immediate action to combat climate change and its impacts.

What We Do

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

The ZERO13 Hub provides a Platform-as-a-Service which offers a distributed point of entry for digital issuance, trading and settlement of carbon credits and real-world assets such as ESG securities. ZERO13 Hub connects multiple international carbon exchanges, registries, custodians and ESG project owners globally for supply verification, transparent pricing and real-time settlement using APIs and across blockchains enabled by ZERO13 Chain (‘Pyctor’).

The ZERO13 Hub facilitates:

Infrastructure

Digital climate and sustainability markets infrastructure

Carbon Credits

Digital issuance, recording, verification and monitoring of carbon credits

Transparency

Transparent pricing, trading, exchange matching and real-time settlement of carbon credits

Cybersecurity

Advanced cybersecurity technology for end-to-end operational security

Aggregation

Aggregation of global carbon markets (and participants)

Transition

Transition of a digital asset niche to a circular economy

SustainaFi – linking sustainability with finance in a unique ‘network of networks’ approach

The ZERO13 Hub is an orchestration layer that leverages synergies and collaborations between market participants – suppliers, buyers, exchanges, registries, custodians, banks, asset managers, corporates, 3rd party networks, climate fintech vendors and ClimateTech firms – enabling carbon market participants to unlock the full potential of carbon credits and related ESG assets.

The Solution

ZERO13 removes inefficiencies and problems in currently fragmented carbon markets, such as fraudulent credits, greenwashing, lack of price transparency, vertical silos and market fragmentation.

With ZERO13, carbon markets participants benefit from:

Increased trust through automated verification, no double counting or green washing

Greater trading and settlement workflow efficiencies from fewer intermediaries, price transparency, integrated silos, and carbon markets aggregation

A solution that understands the market needs of industrial operators, corporates and institutional investors

A solution that enables retail demand to be realized

Key Features & Benefits of the ZERO13 Ecosystem

ZERO13 Registry: An automated Blockchain Carbon Registry SaaS and enablement layer with AI dMRV (digital Measurement, Reporting, Verification) integration to issue, record, verify and monitor carbon credits and ESG assets. Integral controls to detect fraudulent credits & double counting with full disclosure of sustainability disclosure requirements.

ZERO13 Chain: Energy efficient multi-blockchain based distributed, permissioned Custody Wallet and Asset Settlement Network (‘ASN’) to digitally manage and effectively settle credits, with immutability and traceability, based on projected and real mitigation outcomes from multiple projects.

ZERO13 Technologies which comprises all software/SaaS/PaaS technologies from within the whole group, enabling ecosystem participants to run their own services, as well as to connect into the multi-party ZERO13 Hub, as required.

ZERO13 Hub: A carbon credits aggregation hub to connect multiple carbon participants, registries, exchanges and services across multiple jurisdictions.

ZERO13 Markets: A regulated carbon credits exchange with post trade for price transparency and real time settlement using a hybrid approach (API and blockchain-based), which also supports ESG real-world assets.

ZERO13 Projects: A trusted supply of projects to unlock and generate a credible supply of carbon credits with digital provenance, which are issued and then registered.

ZERO13 SustainaFi: Green banking finance & ESG asset management (working with partners) – vertically & horizontally integrated Sustainable Finance ‘network of networks’ ecosystem.

Strong Partnerships with buyers as well as with supply-side sellers, vendors, green banking & finance and ESG asset management (from Partners) and multiple government-to-government (G2G) partnership frameworks.

Partners & Key Profiles

Partners

Leadership Team

Hirander Misra – Chairman & CEO

Hirander has extensive electronic trading and FinTech expertise spanning 25 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 Harrop – CIO

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 Teo - Managing Director (ZERO13 Trading)

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 Budden - Chief Marketing Officer (Consultant)

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 Atkins

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.

Prof. Lisa Wilson Short

Professor Lisa Wilson Short is a multi-award-winning international business leader, academic, educator, entrepreneur/inventor and mentor, focusing on the fields of emergent technologies, ESG, cybersecurity and digital assets. Preeminent and credited with being one of the top 100 B2B thought leaders in the world to follow and one of the world’s top 20 thought leaders and influencers on blockchain, ESG, EdTech and cryptocurrency for 2020, 2021 and 2022, her passion has always been to identify and harness the potential of technology and education to change the lives of those out of the traditional range and focus of most digital entrepreneurs.

Sinnthya Macek

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.

Advisors

Anoop Nannra

Anoop is Co-Founder of the Open Sustainability Collaborative accelerating sustainability through innovation, partnership and collaboration. Currently also specialising in developing innovative products and services relating to blockchain, IoT and sovereign identity technologies. Anoop was formerly the Global Blockchain Segment Leader in AWS’s Partner Organization and Cisco’s Global Blockchain Leader, focused on identifying disruptive technologies and accelerating their adoption through co-development, co-innovation, and partnerships.

Asad Sultan

Asad is a 25-year veteran of the investment banking industry, including 15 years in Asia. Until 2008 he was the Managing Director and Country Head in India for US investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald. Asad started his career in 1990 with Citibank in New York, then Tokyo and London. In Hong Kong, he worked for Japan’s Daiwa Bank, and served as Division Director and Head of Asian Equities for Australia’s Macquarie Bank; following which he launched NYSE-listed institutional brokerage Investment Technology Group in Asia as regional CEO.

Suraj Arora

Suraj is an accomplished banker with over 27 years of corporate experience, and with functional expertise across Mergers & Acquisitions, Fund Raising, Mentoring New Ventures, Start-up investments, Corporate & Investment Banking, Remittance and Digital Banking.

He also holds the position of Secretary of Consortium of Indian Industries in Malaysia and has successfully organised ASEAN-India bilateral events. He is also an avid start-up investor with investments across media and technology platforms.