Field Note · Capital Markets & Real Assets · Measurement & Verification

COP30 and the verification gap in nature based finance

COP30 closed in Belém on 22 November with an agreement to substantially increase adaptation finance for developing countries. The harder problem it did not solve is measurement.

December 2025 · Latin America & Caribbean

A living regional landscape of hills, fields, and settlements

Held for the first time in the Amazon, COP30 concluded with commitments to significantly scale climate adaptation funding and strengthen support for the clean energy transition in developing economies. What it did not resolve, and what voluntary carbon markets have struggled with for years, is the gap between a hectare of restored land and a credit an institutional buyer can actually audit: baseline measurement, ongoing monitoring, and a defensible chain of evidence.

Satellite-enabled monitoring is closing that gap faster than policy is. It is why we treat environmental markets and earth observation as a single workstream, not two, and why any carbon or biodiversity credit we help structure carries independent verification from origination, not retrofitted before sale.

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