Environmental Capital Markets
Wetland Mitigation & Habitat Banking
The markets for both wetland and habitat banking are driven by land development where any proposed real estate development must compensate the damage to endangered habitats or wetlands resulting from the proposed development by buying credits from a wetland or habitat bank thereby offsetting this damage.
NeXii plans to support these markets by raising capital for wetland mitigation and habitat banking projects and providing secondary liquidity in order to monetize banked credits using the CORE or "Credit Order Routing Engine" system.
Water Quality Trading
The market for water quality credits is regulated under the Clean Water Act and includes credits for nitrogen, phosphorous and water temperature also called "Nutrient Trading".
The WQT market is a very large opportunity and we plan to support transactions on the NeXii platform by linking into future regional platforms being created by organizations such as the Willamette Partnership or the Bay Bank, which are establishing regional electronic ecosystem services platforms.
Transferrable Development Rights & Conservation Easements
Transferrable development rights or TDR's are a form of tradable easement whereby a private landowner chooses to protect land targeted for conservation from development and sells their rights to developers who are allowed to develop in an urban area targeted for development above and beyond what the standard zoning rules would normally allow absent the purchase of a TDR.
The company will list TDR’s on our secondary transactions platform with the potential to eventually resell the right at a profit as well as raise capital for TDR funds.
Carbon Markets
NeXii will provide an infrastructure for the raising of capital for carbon projects that will generate tradable voluntary and compliance carbon credits as well as a secondary transactions platform to monetize voluntary credits. Projects based on currently accepted protocols for REDD, forestry carbon, agricultural based carbon and other methods that focus not just on emission reductions but also consider the engagement of the local community and protection of biodiversity including:
• CCB -Climate, Community and Biodiversity• Social Carbon
• Gold Standard
• Plan Vivo
• New pending soil carbon standards
NeXii will direct the order flow of these credits using the Credit Order Routing Engine system, or "CORE" price matching mechanism which is an order aggregation system that will seamlessly link to exchanges, brokers, market makers, traders and environmental registries anywhere in the world to execute transactions matched for best price, credit type, size, vintage year and geographic region on any exchange or OTC trading desk.
Future NeXii Markets
NeXii plans to support through pilot programs and partnerships various conservation markets that it feels will compliment its other key environmental markets. These include:
• Coastal payments for ecosystem services and Marine Offsets• Water Rights Markets
• Water Footprint Credits and Water Restoration Certificates
• Stormwater Runoff Credits
• Marine Carbon Credits