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Supplier Standards

Standards expected of sellers, project owners, brokers and credit suppliers before listing or sale.

Effective date: 30 May 2026. These are the current published terms for Carbon Trader® website and platform use.

Part 16 - Supplier and Credit Listing Standards

1. Purpose

These standards apply to suppliers, project developers, sellers, forest owners, credit holders, brokers and other users who submit credits, projects, vintages, registry evidence, quality evidence or public listing material to Carbon Trader.

2. Supplier onboarding

A supplier may be required to provide:

  • legal name, trading name and NZBN or overseas equivalent;
  • registered office and principal place of business;
  • director, beneficial owner and senior manager details;
  • tax residency and GST status;
  • bank account verification;
  • registry account details;
  • authority to list, market, transfer, retire or cancel credits;
  • evidence of credit ownership or control;
  • project documentation and verification evidence;
  • chain-of-title information;
  • AML/CFT, sanctions, PEP and adverse-media information;
  • details of any agents, brokers, forest managers or intermediaries;
  • confirmation of any security interests, encumbrances, restrictions or prior commitments.

3. Credit lot evidence

Carbon Trader may request evidence including registry screenshots, registry statements, issuance records, serial numbers, vintage records, project design documents, verification reports, monitoring reports, retirement records, cancellation records, transfer confirmations, host-country authorisations, corresponding adjustment evidence, methodology documents and audit reports.

4. Quality review

Carbon Trader may apply quality checks, risk flags, claim suitability labels and internal scoring. These may consider:

  • credit type and standard;
  • registry transparency;
  • vintage;
  • methodology;
  • permanence;
  • additionality;
  • leakage;
  • reversal risk;
  • monitoring quality;
  • verification body;
  • host-country accounting;
  • social and biodiversity safeguards;
  • public controversy;
  • double-counting risk;
  • buyer claim purpose;
  • retirement or transfer pathway.

5. No endorsement unless stated

Unless Carbon Trader expressly states otherwise, accepting a supplier or listing does not mean Carbon Trader endorses the project, guarantees the credit, guarantees claim suitability or assumes responsibility for the supplier’s statements.

6. Suspension of supplier access

Carbon Trader may suspend supplier access or listings if evidence becomes stale, a project is disputed, a standard or registry changes status, an adverse media issue arises, a methodology is criticised, a sanctions risk emerges, a double-counting issue is identified, or Carbon Trader considers the supplier high risk.