oneshot.earth: Turning Climate Impact Into a Financial Asset
DATE FOUNDED
2022
LOCATION
New York and Amsterdam
FUN FACT
We do one tonne
Their mission:
When you join oneshot.earth, you get three books: Ministry for the Future, Project Drawdown and How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.
What motivated you to start oneshot.earth, and what gap did you see in the sustainability marketplace?
As an angel investor in the climate space I was both excited and frustrated. Excited because some really cool solutions were becoming available. Frustrated, because it takes too long for these technologies to get to mass adoption. I wondered whether there was a financial asset that could be created that represented climate impact. That’s what we set out to do at oneshot.earth. We started with the voluntary carbon market as our beachhead market, but are now expanding into book and claim and more compliance-type instruments.
In building oneshot.earth, the team has created a platform that treats climate impact as a measurable, financeable asset class. By developing infrastructure to document, track, and transact environmental credits, oneshot.earth aims to accelerate capital flows into climate-positive solutions that might otherwise take years to scale.
You offer more than just carbon credits—what kinds of environmental assets can people access on oneshot.earth, and why is that diversity important?
oneshot.earth is a platform where new standards can find consensus, where credits can be documented and tracked. Whether these are carbon credits with the goal of getting a CCP or ISO label, or book and claim credits, or compliance certificates. They can be carbon, biodiversity, water…
Carbon Credits
Typically used in a net-zero framework, carbon credits are retired against an emission. oneshot.earth, however, is pushing towards a paradigm where credits are treated as assets on a balance sheet and never retired, but continuously monitored for their carbon impact.
Book-and-Claim
For businesses with complex supply chains, book-and-claim systems simplify sustainability claims by de-coupling the environmental benefit from the physical product.
Mass-Balancing
Mass-Balancing is the most restrictive framework to account for use of green products, requiring the physical product to be used, and not a certificate.
oneshot.earth functions as a flexible and evolving registry system for multiple types of environmental credits. Its infrastructure is built to support emerging standards and accommodate verification layers like CCP and ISO, enabling both established and future market instruments to coexist on a single platform.
The “Living Ledger” is a unique feature—how does it bring clarity and accountability to environmental action?
The living ledger stems from our work on bringing climate to the balance sheet. We believe that emissions should be considered and accounted for as a liability on the balance sheet. It is your impact on the environment. When you do that, you will decarbonize as quickly as possible – and engage with climate assets. Otherwise your financial picture will look quite problematic. Access to capital, insurance, etc, will be impacted. Our living ledger is a first stab at this.
The Living Ledger reflects oneshot.earth’s broader mission to integrate sustainability into the core of financial decision-making. By tying emissions to financial reporting, the platform helps businesses treat environmental liabilities with the same rigor as financial ones – opening new pathways for access to capital, risk underwriting, and regulatory alignment.
What does success look like for oneshot.earth in the next few years, and how do you see the impact space evolving?
We want to become the platform that unlocks financial flows at scale to climate positive projects. That means an interoperable market of carbon credits, book and claim, and compliance instruments, all documented on our platform, leveraging the ecosystem of rating agencies, insurance companies and capital providers.
