Building High-Integrity Carbon Credits: Digital MRV & The Time Value of Carbon | Yvonne Champagne

In our new episode of This Week in Carbon, Rene Velasquez is joined by Yvan Champagne, Co-Founder and Chief Carbon Officer at Carbon AI. He is a leading expert in carbon markets with over 20 years of experience in greenhouse gas project development and high-integrity environmental commodities. This info-dense episode provides an in-depth masterclass on building trustworthy carbon credits through advanced digital MRV technology, the critical importance of data quality, and the paradigm shift needed to scale the market to gigaton levels. 

This episode delivers the clearest take on how to move carbon markets from analog, paper-based processes to robust, auditable digital infrastructure.

Key Topics

• Why high-quality data is the foundation of synthetic commodities like carbon credits — and why poor data creates poor instruments

• How Carbon AI’s DMRV platform (Proof, Field, and Vue) goes beyond a digital twin to actually generate and verify high-integrity credits

• The bottlenecks in verification and issuance — and how immutable data can increase throughput without compromising integrity

• The powerful concept of Time Value of Carbon: why avoiding emissions today (especially methane) has disproportionately higher climate impact than future removals

• Shifting carbon markets from an “art market” to professional, scalable infrastructure capable of delivering gigaton-scale results

• Innovation from the Global South and building a more efficient, transparent carbon 3.0 future

Whether you’re a project developer, corporate buyer, verifier, registry professional, or investor looking to understand the future of high-quality carbon credits, this conversation is packed with actionable insights and practical takeaways.

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