Data Systems
The Challenge
Emerging economies are central to the global climate transition, yet they are held back by fragmented, unreliable, and inaccessible climate and natural capital data. Small and medium-sized enterprises—the backbone of these economies—struggle to meet rising disclosure and supply chain requirements, even as they remain cut off from the capital and carbon market opportunities needed to grow sustainably. Across the system, breaks in data standards, weak governance frameworks, and gaps in market infrastructure prevent climate finance from flowing at scale. Unless these challenges are addressed, the promise of inclusive, effective climate markets will remain out of reach.
The Opportunity
To build markets that are both credible and inclusive, climate and natural capital data must be transformed into systems that are reliable, interoperable, and investor-grade. This requires governments, regulators, financial institutions, utilities, and private actors to come together around shared solutions. By aligning on standards, strengthening governance frameworks, and designing scalable models adapted to diverse country contexts, stakeholders can unlock access to green finance and carbon markets while ensuring compliance with evolving disclosure requirements. Coordinated action can bridge today’s gaps in methodologies and infrastructure, laying the foundation for resilient and trustworthy markets that accelerate the green transition.
The Work
My work to demonstrate how inclusive, trusted, and interoperable data systems can unlock capital flows and power the green transition in emerging economies spans both nonprofit and private-sector engagement. In my work as the Co-founder of the Global Digital Single Market Data Alliance (DSMDA), I am helping build the enabling environment for climate and natural capital markets by bringing together governments, regulators, financial institutions, and private actors to design investor-grade data ecosystems.
The Alliance is focused on: the DSMDA is demonstrating how inclusive, trusted, and interoperable data systems can unlock capital flows and power the green transition in emerging economies.
SME Data Unlock – creating open-source platforms that allow small and medium-sized enterprises in emerging economies to automate and share verifiable climate and water data, enabling access to green finance, participation in carbon markets, and compliance with global supply chain requirements.
Partnerships with governments and institutions – working directly with ministries, utilities, and regulators to design scalable models tailored to diverse country contexts, with early partnerships already underway in North Macedonia and other countries.
Market infrastructure for climate and natural capital – collaborating with stakeholders to bridge breaks in the investor-grade data value chain by aligning standards, accounting methodologies, and governance frameworks.The Alliance is focused on: