Centre for Digital Public Goods (CDPG) at IIMB Convenes Multi-stakeholder Roundtable to Design Open Network for Carbon Markets
As India prepares to launch its Carbon Credit Trading System (CCTS), IIM Bangalore, through its Centre for Digital Public Goods (CDPG), convened a roundtable on 19 March 2026 to design an Open Network for Carbon Markets (ONCM). The roundtable brought together leaders representing regulators, market exchange makers, technology service providers, policy makers, senior officers from the forest departments, policy makers...
As India prepares to launch its Carbon Credit Trading System (CCTS), IIM Bangalore, through its Centre for Digital Public Goods (CDPG), convened a roundtable on 19 March 2026 to design an Open Network for Carbon Markets (ONCM). The roundtable brought together leaders representing regulators, market exchange makers, technology service providers, policy makers, senior officers from the forest departments, policy makers and corporate buyers to pave the way forward.
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IIM Bangalore
The proposed ONCM, built in partnership with Networks for Humanity (NFH), intends to address fundamental barriers that limit India’s participation in global carbon markets. It is designed to mitigate challenges such as fragmented registries, cross-border trading constraints, pricing opacity, and non-standard monitoring-review-verification (MRV) processes. The ONCM aims to build an open digital infrastructure that facilitates seamless trading of carbon credits across global markets, while simultaneously preserving participants’ agency, autonomy and data sovereignty.
