The capital is there. The projects are there. What is missing is the bridge and the ecosystem to make investments real.
We are building it.
Apply by May 30th to join the ecosystem.
Founders’ welcome:
Dear reader and carbon enthusiast,
For each of us and in service to a sustainable society, I founded Kapnest with the vision and mission: to shape trusted knowledge and experts ecosystem for carbon and co-benefits as a real asset class.
Together we are writing the next stage of high-integrity markets and channeling resilient and tailored capital towards impactful projects.
I’m Adelina Toader, a capital strategist with nearly two decades of experience in corporate banking and international structured trade finance.
I've built and coordinated profitable businesses and bespoke financial services from the ground up around the world. Across commodities sectors, such energy, oil & gas, petrochemicals, fertilisers, metals and mining, as well as other real industries supply chains.
Over the past four years, I’ve led the development of the carbon credits financing business within a major global financial institution.
And this is only the beginning…
Building on postgrad studies of collective psychoanalysis, time has come to interpolate quantitative analytical metrics with ecological psychology knowledge. My postgrad research is focused on why with abundant technical data at hand humanity lacks decision drive in decarbonisation and nature protection efforts.
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core pillars
1. Trusted knowledge
A lack of shared language and risk standards is holding back carbon, nature and biodiversity investment.
Kapnest tackles this by boosting carbon literacy, eco-expertise and building a common climate investment vocabulary.
What to publications expect? Carbon and co-benefits high-integrity projects and investments focused knowledge capsules. Including focus on related lucrative industries. Kapnest pairs up with leading Swiss and global specialists to deliver market expert content and specialised publications. Such as:
EY Switzerland & Kapnest:Demystifying the voluntary carbon credit value chain for Swiss financial institutions
Green Report Romania & Kapnest: https://green-report.ro/harap-alb-in-tara-carbonului-cum-punem-banii-la-lucru-pentru-natura-si-viitor/
Postgrad Symbol Paper on Eco-psychology: paper extract available upon request.
2. Experts ecosystem
Carbon markets need a consolidated environment for credible project developers and active investors.
Kapnest is building an ecosystem of committed capital providers, project developers, supply and demand representatives, as well as providing them the tools for a swift, impeccable, resilient deals executions
The space is curated to include all relevant technical and analytical market date, with a relevant lens of eco-psychology to streamline decision making.
What to tools expect? We co-develop with market experts: (i) a standardised heads of terms (HoT) for carbon financing. Capturing full financing cycle: from equity, blended finance, project financing, offtake. (ii) Launch and pre-test a SaaS platform prototype for a carbon-toolkit aimed to translate data into faster investment and strategic decision-making.
3. Capital structuring
At the heart of the Kapnest ecosystem is the alignment of real investors with high-quality carbon, nature and biodiversity-based projects.
Despite record energy transition investments of USD 2.3 trillion versus ~USD 6.5 trillion real need. Carbon markets play a key role in providing the tools to price, measure and accelerate capital flow.
Kapnest addresses this disconnect by facilitating bespoke capital structuring and direct match-making between a varied array of capital providers and market leading project developers.
What to expect? Investor to projects meet in on platform aligned in risk appetite, with bespoke education and risk management matrixes, allowing for an organic matching between the two. Kapnest created this space for a long term, resilient vision and is setting up the market standard financial instruments to match capital with projects and offtake.