How METI Source Works
The process for embedding verifiable trust in sustainable exchange
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The process for embedding verifiable trust in sustainable exchange
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METI™ (MillPont Environmental Trust Infrastructure) operates as a geospatial clearinghouse, transforming environmental asset management in agricultural supply chains by embedding verifiable trust into sustainable exchanges. At its core, METI Source introduces Secure Source IDs (SSIDs)—digital deeds linked to Sources of environmental outcomes. These digital deeds provide a secure, dynamic, and interoperable framework to connect agricultural value chains with environmental markets.
SSIDs are digital deeds that transform how environmental outcomes are tracked, verified, and managed. By linking each Source to an SSID, METI enables:
Ownership Verification & Validation: Each SSID is tied to a specific Source and its environmental outcomes, ensuring accurate claims and compliance with market standards - mitigating double-counting and greenwashing.
Security: Encrypted identifiers protect data integrity and ownership while safeguarding against fraud or duplication.
Interoperability: SSIDs are designed to integrate seamlessly with multiple platforms, markets, and regulatory frameworks, reducing friction across supply chains, registries, and marketplaces.
Dynamic Functionality: SSIDs evolve over time, capturing updates to claims, monitoring status changes, and ensuring outcomes remain relevant and actionable.
Submission of Sources
METI Members (e.g., ARVA Intelligence) submit Sources from agricultural projects to METI’s Clearinghouse. These Sources include:
Geospatial boundaries of project fields.
Management timelines specifying the duration of claims (Valid From – Valid To).
Data Processing in the Clearinghouse
The Clearinghouse:
Reformats and processes submitted data leveraging advanced encryption algorithms, ensuring comparable consistency while preserving privacy and identifiable information.
Compares the submitted information against existing network claims and public data sources (e.g. geographically referenceable Voluntary Carbon Market projects on Verra, CAR, ACR, Gold Standard, etc.) to validate exclusivity.
Issuance of Encrypted Deeds
After validation, METI issues SSIDs as digital deeds for each Source. These SSIDs are stored in the Source Ledger along with:
Metadata about the Source’s origin, ownership, and current status.
Verification and encryption protocols ensuring right-to-claim ownership and traceability.
Linking SSIDs to Verified Outcomes
METI Members link SSIDs to specific environmental outcomes, such as carbon credits, Scope 3 claims, and or CI-certificates. This approach ensures:
Transparency and Integrity: Outcome claims are clearly documented, with traceable and verifiable ownership for buyers and stakeholders.
Conflict Mitigation: Double-counting is prevented, and ownership claims are clearly established, with mechanisms in place to resolve disputes when conflicts arise.
Authentication and Ongoing Monitoring
Buyers (e.g., Nestlé Purina) or third-party auditors authenticate claims via the METI Source Ledger.
SSIDs are continuously monitored to:
Ensure exclusivity and prevent double-counting.
Verify ongoing compliance with Rulebook standards until the claim’s expiration.
Trust and Transparency: SSIDs provide verifiable and traceable assurance of environmental claims ownership.
Scalable Market Integration: Interoperability ensures compatibility across platforms, registries, and value chains.
Dynamic Accountability: SSIDs adapt to updates in environmental outcomes and ownership, ensuring continuous relevance and detection of conflicts - historically and on an ongoing basis.
Efficient Ownership Management: SSIDs simplify complex transactions by creating a secure, traceable link between Sources and outcomes, ensuring claims are unique, exclusive, and readily auditable.
METI empowers stakeholders to connect agricultural value chains with climate markets, fostering a sustainable future. By leveraging SSIDs as digital deeds, METI ensures that environmental claims are not just credible but also verifiable, authentic, and traceable at scale.
