Carbon Credit Registry

The legal-tech bridge
for ASEAN carbon.

The Rimba registry is the Article 6.2 Corresponding Adjustment layer for ASEAN carbon markets — automating the legal handshake between host governments and international buyers, and maintaining a tamper-proof ledger of every credit issued, transferred, and retired. Nothing is hidden. Everything is traceable. Every trade is CA-documented.

Immutable

Every entry is permanent. No credit record can be altered or deleted once created.

Publicly Searchable

Any person can look up any credit at any time. No login required to verify.

No Double Counting

A retired credit cannot be resold, reused, or re-listed. The status is irreversible.

Full Reports

Complete verification reports are published — not summaries, the full documents.

Article 6.2 CA-Tracked

Every international trade generates a structured Corresponding Adjustment record submitted to the host government registry and Singapore NEA — preventing NDC double-counting automatically.

Two gates before any credit is issued

1
Validation — before the project begins

An accredited Rimba verifier reviews the project design, methodology application, baseline calculation, and monitoring plan. Confirms the project is correctly structured and claimed reductions are credible.

2
Verification — after reductions are achieved

The verifier reviews monitoring data from IoT sensors, satellite analysis, and field surveys. Confirms the claimed reductions actually occurred. Only then does the registry issue credits.

3
Issuance — credits enter the registry

Each credit receives a unique serial number, is recorded with full provenance, and is available for transfer or listing on Bursa Carbon Exchange and Climate Impact X.

The full chain of custody

Project name, location and boundaryGPS-verified boundaries published in the registry
Ecosystem type and methodology versionPeatland, Mangrove, REDD+, or Smallholder — with methodology version cited
Vintage yearThe calendar year the emission reduction or sequestration occurred
Verifier identity and reportVerifier name, accreditation number, and full verification report published
Buffer pool contributionPercentage held in permanence reserve — insurance against reversal
Status and retirement recordIf retired: retiring organisation, date, and stated purpose — permanently recorded

Every credit has a unique serial number

The serial number is human-readable — it tells you the country, ecosystem, vintage year, project, and credit sequence at a glance. No decoding required.

The format was designed so that a Malaysian buyer, a Singapore auditor, or an international regulator can all read it and understand exactly what they are looking at.

Example Registry Serial Number
ASEAN-MY-MNG-2026-0001-000001
ASEAN
Region
MY
Country
MNG
Mangrove
2026
Vintage
0001
Project ID
000001
Credit No.
PEAT — Peatland MNG — Mangrove REDD — REDD+ SMHD — Smallholder

Preventing Double Counting

A retired credit cannot be resold, reused, or re-listed. Once marked retired, that status is permanent and irreversible. Rimba maintains data-sharing protocols with Bursa Carbon Exchange, Climate Impact X, and national registries to ensure a credit cannot simultaneously appear on two platforms.

Article 6.2 — Automated CA Workflow

When a Rimba credit is sold into Singapore's compliance market, the registry automatically generates a structured Corresponding Adjustment notification record — containing the credit serial number, emission reduction quantum, buyer identity, and retirement purpose — and submits it via API to Malaysia's NRES national registry and Singapore's NEA ICC tracking system. No manual government paperwork. No delay. The CA is documented at the point of transaction.

This is the feature no other ASEAN-native registry has. It is why Rimba is positioned as the legal-tech infrastructure for the AACF — not just another carbon registry.

ASEAN governments can run their registry on Rimba

The Rimba registry engine is available as a white-label SaaS platform for ASEAN national ministries. Indonesia, Vietnam, or Cambodia can deploy a "National Carbon Registry powered by Rimba" — retaining sovereign branding while using Rimba's CA-tracking infrastructure, dMRV pipeline, and serial number architecture. This is how Rimba expands geographically without the friction of exporting a foreign standard. The host government gets a functioning national registry in months rather than years. Rimba earns transaction and integration fees on every credit processed.

For Malaysia, Rimba's ASEAN-MY-PEAT-2026-0001-000001 serial number format is designed for direct compatibility with the National Carbon Registry API mandated under the National Climate Change Bill (in final legal review, March 2026). When NRES publishes the national registry API specification, Rimba will ensure one-to-one record synchronisation.

// CA Notification API
POST /api/v1/ca-notification
{
"serial": "ASEAN-MY-MNG-2026-0001-000001"
"quantity_tco2e": 10000
"buyer_country": "SG"
"host_country": "MY"
"purpose": "SGCarbon_Tax_2026"
}
→ Submitted to MY-NRES & SG-NEA automatically

The AACF infrastructure goes live when our founding methodology is peer-reviewed

The Rimba registry and CA-tracking layer are in active development. The first credits will be issued — and the first CA notifications will flow to NRES and NEA — once the founding mangrove blue carbon methodology completes independent peer review. We expect this in 2026. Register your interest below to be notified when the registry opens and the AACF infrastructure goes live.