The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Credit Markets and Climate Innovation

NexantECA compellingly argues that carbon credit markets are crucial for financing climate innovation, particularly bridging the “Valley of Death”. The novel finding is that corporate pre-purchase and offtake agreements provide early, non-dilutive capital, reducing technology and investment risk for climate tech start-ups. This mechanism provides revenue certainty, accelerating scale-up. Ambitious new structures, like SAFc Credits, are also emerging to enable market-driven pricing and close the green premium gap.