May 2026 - CDGP Digest

Chaitrali Bhoi (Project Lead, ONCM) from CDPG team delivered a special address on ‘Design of Open Network for carbon Markets (ONCM)’ at Climate Innovation Summit 2026 organised by Supply Chain Management Centre (SCMC) at IIM Bangalore and NET ZERO THINK. The address covered ONCM design and vision which sparked encouraging conversation amongst audience of policymakers, industry leaders, climate finance practitioners, and researchers.

Chaitrali Bhoi (Project Lead, ONCM) from CDPG team attended a two-day workshop convened by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), the Ministry of Power agency administering India’s Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS). The sessions on 28th and 29th May brought together regulators, industry stakeholders, and technical experts to work through the operational details of India’s mandatory and voluntary carbon market mechanisms.

Chaitrali Bhoi engaged in a focused architectural design session for the Open Network for Carbon Markets (ONCM) with Mr. Sujith Nair and team at Networks for Humanity (NFH), an initiative to build open, inclusive and interoperable digital infrastructure for India’s emerging carbon credit trading ecosystem. Drawing on the Beckn protocol-enabled ONCM envisions an open network where carbon market ecosystem actors such as project developers, registries, verifiers, MRV/ dMRV service providers and buyers transact over shared specifications without platform lock-in.