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IBM GreenCert: The 2007 Plan to Simplify Carbon Trading

Announced in 2007, IBM GreenCert was designed to document greenhouse-gas reductions and connect verified results with carbon-credit registries or markets. Historical sources do not confirm its launch or present-day availability.
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IBM GreenCert was a planned enterprise software solution announced in 2007 to measure and document greenhouse-gas reductions and help connect independently reviewed results with carbon-credit registries or markets. IBM and its partners described how it was meant to work, but the available records do not confirm that the planned 2008 release occurred or that GreenCert remains available.

What IBM GreenCert was designed to do

GreenCert was intended to make emissions-reduction measurement and documentation more repeatable, then help translate verified reductions into credits that could be delivered to external markets. It was a measurement-and-documentation system, not a carbon-reduction project in itself. The contemporary announcement described recording a company’s carbon footprint and measuring it again after reductions, with the aim of standardizing the collection and documentation of large volumes of information. Data Center Knowledge reported the announcement on December 12, 2007.

How the proposed workflow worked

  1. Collect emissions information. GreenCert was described as accepting information supplied by a client or collected by sensors at the client site.
  2. Calculate changes. The software would calculate greenhouse-gas emission reductions, removals, and avoidances against the relevant information or baseline.
  3. Document and review results. It would organize the data and integrate verification by a third-party reviewer.
  4. Deliver verified credits externally. The described workflow would send verified credits to external registries or markets.

This is the proposed workflow in IBM’s archived partner-solution handbook. It does not establish that a particular company used GreenCert, that a registry issued credits through it, or that any credits were traded.

Which organizations contributed

Organization Role described in the historical materials
IBM Technology partner. The 2007 announcement named WebSphere Portal, Lotus Forms, DB2 Universal Database, DB2 Content Manager, DB2 Records Manager, WebSphere Process Server, and WebSphere Business Process Management software as components used in the infrastructure.
Enterprise Information Management, Inc. (EIM) Designed and built the GreenCert infrastructure using IBM software; IBM’s archived solution sheet identifies EIM as the developer.
Evergreen Energy and its C-Lock Technology subsidiary Evergreen was the other named IBM partner. C-Lock was described as designing or providing the greenhouse-gas data-processing engine.
Third-party reviewers and external registries or markets Reviewers were intended to verify reductions before credits were delivered to external destinations.

The partner roles and named technologies are described in the 2007 announcement and the IBM-hosted partner handbook.

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What was announced about availability

The December 12, 2007 report said a trial beta was then available and that C-Lock expected GreenCert to be available in the first half of 2008, with pricing to be made public at availability. Those statements describe the plan at the time, not a confirmed launch. The available historical sources do not establish whether the release happened, what final pricing was, whether the product continued, or who owns or supports it now. GreenCert should therefore be treated as a historical initiative, not as a currently available IBM product.

GreenCert and IBM Envizi are not the same thing

IBM’s current Cloud Carbon Calculator FAQ describes emissions data for a subset of IBM Cloud services and says that data can be used with ESG tools such as Envizi. That is an adjacent emissions-data and reporting use case. The FAQ does not identify Envizi as GreenCert or describe it as a carbon-credit trading platform.

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How to read the carbon-market figures cited at the time

The 2007 Data Center Knowledge article reported a global carbon-market value of $10 billion for 2005 and cited a World Bank estimate that the carbon-credit market could grow to $30 billion. An IBM-hosted EIM solution sheet gives different historical World Bank-attributed figures: US$30 billion in 2006 and US$64 billion in 2007. These are dated figures presented in different documents and contexts, not current market values or a single consistent series; they should not be used as a present-day estimate.

Sources: Data Center Knowledge, December 12, 2007; IBM-hosted EIM GreenCert solution sheet.

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