London, 26 February 2026 – ZERO13 has been named “Best Initiative for Sustainable Trading Infrastructure” at the TradingTech Insight Industry Awards 2026, recognising its role in building institutional-grade market infrastructure to accelerate global climate finance.
The award acknowledges ZERO13’s major focus on addressing the structural gaps that continue to hinder sustainable investment at scale. With an estimated US$4–5 trillion required annually to meet global climate targets, traditional financial systems remain fragmented, slow, and inaccessible to many climate-critical projects. ZERO13 was created to change that reality by enabling the efficient, transparent flow of capital into high-impact sustainable real-world assets.
ZERO13 centres on green real-world assets (RWAs), including carbon credits, renewable energy, and nature-based solutions such as reforestation and agroforestry. By digitising and tokenising these assets, the platform transforms them into investable instruments that can be issued, placed into digital custody, invested into, traded and settled across global markets with institutional confidence.
Through its 7Cs framework, ZERO13 strengthens climate resilience and economic empowerment by connecting fragmented markets, channelling capital into underserved regions for carbon credits and sustainable commodities development, supporting communities through inclusive climate finance tools, and aligning the objectives of companies and countries under a shared sustainability mandate. This approach reinforces a core principle: sustainability must also be economically sustainable, and the Global South holds some of the world’s most valuable, investible, and verifiable climate assets.
Beyond efficiency, ZERO13 addresses trust and inclusion. Its regulated infrastructure provides a level playing field for public and private sector issuers, while offering institutional investors the transparency, compliance, custody, and reporting standards they require. Aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, ZERO13 supports ITMO trading, carbon auctions, and climate finance initiatives across Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.
By bridging traditional and digital finance, ZERO13 is helping to turn sustainability from ambition into execution, and execution into measurable, investable outcomes.
