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About Carbon Trader®

Carbon Trader is the New Zealand marketplace for carbon credits, operated by Trend Enterprises Limited. Holders list their own units, buyers buy from them directly, and every trade settles through escrow.

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What Carbon Trader does

A marketplace

Holders of New Zealand Units list them at a price they choose. Buyers take a whole lot or part of one. Sellers are never named on a listing.

Escrow settlement

The buyer's money is held before any units move, and released to the seller only after the units have arrived.

Free calculators

ETS obligations, industrial allocation, farm emissions and a fee estimator, each citing the published table or regulation behind the number.

Open market data

The daily NZU reference, every government auction since 2021, 902 emission factors and the EPA's participant data, with free APIs.

Why it exists

The government auctions New Zealand Units four times a year. Between auctions, people who hold units and people who need them have to find each other. Carbon Trader exists so they can do that directly, at a price in plain view, with the money protected while the units change hands.

Carbon Trader does not act as a broker and does not sell units on anyone's behalf. It runs the marketplace, holds the buyer's money in escrow and confirms that the units have arrived.

How we work

  • Published fees. A listing costs $29 including GST, paid by the seller. There is no success fee for the buyer or the seller.
  • Published sources. Every calculator and data page names the table, regulation or publisher behind its figures.
  • No Register logins. Carbon Trader never asks for Emissions Trading Register or RealMe credentials. Sellers make their own transfers.
  • Identity once, at escrow. Registering and listing need an email and a password. Identity is checked once, for buyer and seller, when a trade goes into escrow.
  • No advice. Carbon Trader does not give financial, legal, tax or investment advice.
Carbon Tracker

Carbon Tracker®, from the same team

Dashboards for forests, farms, ETS obligations and measured emissions, on its own site. When you have units to sell, they list here.

About Carbon Tracker

Registration and regulation

Trend Enterprises Limited is a registered Financial Service Provider (FSP1008496). Our regulatory position, platform disclosures and the full set of legal documents are published.

Got units to sell?

A listing costs $29 including GST and there is no success fee. Your name stays off the listing, and you keep your units until the buyer's money is in escrow.

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