Tokenization initiatives to expand voluntary carbon credit markets and improve their liquidity have become increasingly common in recent years. Meanwhile, major voluntary carbon credit programs have been setting rules on tokenized credits. The ongoing rollout of regenerative finance models to navigate new risks bodes promisingly for voluntary carbon credit markets’ future development.

With data protection becoming an ever more crucial imperative for companies and governments, we spoke with Thomas Hardjono, CTO of MIT’s Connection Science Group, about how to strike the right balance between data access and protection and why the co-op model of data governance holds promise.