Trust & boundaries
What Terminal Carbon does — and does not — do.
Carbon markets only work when platforms are honest about the limits of their role. This page is the plain-English version.
What we are not
- We do not issue carbon credits.
- We are not a government registry.
- We are not a validation / verification body (VVB).
- We are not a financial adviser.
- We do not guarantee credit issuance.
- We do not guarantee buyer eligibility.
- We do not guarantee Article 6 authorization or corresponding adjustment.
- We do not take custody of credits unless legally approved to do so.
- We do not operate a public carbon-credit exchange unless licensed for that activity in the relevant jurisdiction.
What we do
- We help project owners prepare projects for recognised standards (Verra, Gold Standard, GCC, JCM, Article 6 routes).
- We provide MRV ingestion, evidence vault, additionality review and integrity scoring tooling.
- We facilitate buyer due diligence through a structured data room and transaction workflow.
- We disclose our fees, our methodology and our related-party project policy publicly.
Issuance, transfer and retirement of credits happen on the underlying registry (e.g. Verra Registry, Gold Standard Impact Registry, JCM Registry, the relevant Article 6 system, or the Bangladesh national registry once operational). Terminal Carbon supports those processes; it does not replace them.