Certifications can be used to demonstrate green provenance, net-zero and biosecurity claims to enable value creation and market access across supply chains. Most certifications require the creation of a written plan, recordkeeping, and on-site inspections to verify compliance. Managing records and written plans for certification digitally can streamline the recordkeeping process for producers, allowing them to use data across a range of certifications and export data in the format needed for any particular certification. Digital and technical infrastructure can enable secure exchange, management, and organization of data across a range of certification needs, including organic, grass-fed, regenerative, food safety, animal welfare, etc.

Certifications can be used to demonstrate green provenance, net-zero and biosecurity claims to enable value creation and market access across supply chains. Standards for certifications are to be met by producers to achieve a particular certification. In this case, the data necessary to meet those standards is tracked digitally.

Ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits that humans freely gain from the natural environment and from properly-functioning ecosystems such as air and water quality, habitat, esthetics, and recreation. A marketplace quantifies and creates markets based on the change over time in those services.

The process of establishing confidence in user identities electronically presented to an information system. An example of electric authorization could include verifying the identity of a computer system user.

Environmental assets are defined as naturally occurring living and non-living entities of the Earth, together comprising the bio-physical environment, that jointly deliver ecosystem services to the benefit of current and future generation. An environmental asset claim refers to the process of an individual submitting documentation that demonstrates environmental benefit as it relates to that environmental asset, ensuring proper MMRV using tools acceptable to various methodologies.

A clearinghouse of environmental claims enables the flexible development of new and diverse environmental claim assets classes while providing a trusted methodology for claim identification and assurance of uniqueness. An ECC enables claims searches by boundary, claimant, duration and type and a common format to enable registered claims to avoid conflicts related to additionality or double counting.