Versus Acta operates a marketplace for carbon insetting, connecting corporate buyers with upstream suppliers of verified low-carbon inputs to help companies address Scope 3 emissions. The platform provides intelligence and matching tools to identify cost-effective low-carbon producers, enabling claimable and traceable emissions reductions across complex supply chains. It targets hard-to-abate industries facing regulatory pressure from mechanisms like CBAM.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Up to 95% of corporate greenhouse gas emissions fall under Scope 3, yet most companies lack efficient ways to reduce them. Supply chain decarbonization is complex, and carbon costs are becoming a direct commercial risk as regulations like CBAM price embedded CO₂ into procurement contracts, exposing companies to rising input prices and margin pressure.
Solution
Versus Acta builds the marketplace for carbon insetting, connecting upstream suppliers of verified low-carbon inputs with corporate buyers to create claimable emissions reductions beyond Tier 1. The platform provides the intelligence and matching tools needed to identify the most cost-effective low-carbon producers, enabling companies to optimize across emissions, cost, and regulation. By aggregating demand, Versus Acta scales insetting to abate 1 billion tonnes of emissions from hard-to-abate industries, while ensuring that carbon insets are verified and traceable. The company also brings together buyers, suppliers, standard setters, regulators, data providers, and financiers to build a functional market ecosystem.
Target Audience
Primary customers are corporates with Scope 3 emission reduction targets under SBTi, particularly those in hard-to-abate industries such as steel, cement, fertilisers, and chemicals, as well as upstream green producers seeking reliable demand for low-carbon inputs.
Features
- Marketplace platform that matches high-quality buyers with upstream suppliers of verified low-carbon inputs
- Intelligence tools to identify and compare low-carbon producer options across emissions, cost, and regulatory exposure
- Verified and traceable carbon insets that support claimable Scope 3 emission reductions
- Demand aggregation capabilities designed to scale insetting across complex supply chains
- Ecosystem connecting buyers, suppliers, standard setters, regulators, data providers, and financiers
- Developed with expertise from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials