Asian Gateway Corporation (Japanese name: アジアゲートウェイ株式会社; Head Office: 3-7-2  Kanda-Nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Founder & CEO: Tomonori Kimura; hereafter “AG”) today  announced that it has become the first Japanese company to join the Committee of the  Carbon Data Open Protocol (hereafter “CDOP”), an international multi-stakeholder initiative to  establish data standardization and interoperability in carbon markets (see Note 1). 

AG participates in both of CDOP’s two working groups — the Principles & Policies Working  Group (PPWG) and the Technical Working Group (TWG) — contributing to both the design of  data principles and governance and the technical development of the common data schema. 

In conjunction with this announcement, AG is also launching “Carbon Gateway,” a carbon  market digital infrastructure business. 

About CDOP 

CDOP is an open, multi-stakeholder initiative to develop (1) data principles, (2) a common data  schema, and (3) a governance framework that standardize the data describing carbon credits 

and carbon crediting projects across registries, geographies, and activity types. 

Working in alignment with existing initiatives such as the World Bank’s Carbon Markets  Infrastructure (CMI) Working Group, ICVCM, CAD Trust, ISO, and the UNFCCC (Paris  Agreement Article 6), CDOP aims to establish a practical data protocol covering the entire  carbon credit lifecycle. More than 50 organizations participate in CDOP, which is co-chaired by  GCMU, RMI, S&P Global, and Sylvera. 

The official participant list includes, as Committee Members and Observers, global players such  as Asian Gateway Corporation, AirCarbon Exchange, CAD Trust, CIX, ENGIE, IETA, Verra, and  South Pole. To the extent AG has reviewed CDOP’s official participant list and the public  information of each organization as of this release, no company other than AG is  headquartered in Japan or clearly identifiable as Japanese. AG’s participation marks the  first participation by a Japanese company in the CDOP Committee (see Note 1). 

Challenges Facing Today’s Carbon Credit Market 

For carbon markets to mature into a fully investable asset class, the following challenges remain  barriers: 

1. Fragmented, non-standardized data: Data fields are misaligned across registries, so  comparing projects from different registries requires bespoke, case-by-case “translation.” 

2. Lack of interoperability: Credits issued in one registry cannot be tracked in another,  undermining traceability and transparency. 

3. Difficulty ensuring integrity: Verification of additionality and permanence, and  prevention of double counting through corresponding adjustment for ITMOs  (Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes), do not always function sufficiently. 

4. Insufficient transparency: Existing data models focus mainly on public, post-issuance  data and lack a detailed protocol covering pre-issuance, digital MRV (dMRV; see Note 3),  and private data. 

5. Constraints on liquidity and fungibility: As a result, the comparability of credits remains  low, hindering full-scale entry by institutional investors and the scaling of the market. 

AG’s Initiative 1 — Creation and Sale of High-Integrity Credits 

Building on more than ten years of experience in the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), AG  creates and sells the following credits: 

• Compliance credits: ITMOs under Paris Agreement Article 6.2 that are subject to host country authorization, first transfer, and corresponding adjustment (including credits issued  and approved under the JCM)

• Voluntary credits: Credits eligible for a CCP label, issued under a crediting program  assessed as CCP-eligible by the ICVCM, from CCP-approved credit categories and eligible  methodologies/versions (see Note 2) 

AG aligns the data for these credits with CDOP’s common data schema and the CAD Trust  data model, and manages — in a verifiable and traceable form — information such as  additionality, the basis for calculating reduction/removal volumes, permanence where applicable,  third-party verification, host-country authorization, transfer, and retirement. 

For ITMOs under Paris Agreement Article 6.2, AG manages host-country authorization, first  transfer, and corresponding adjustment; for voluntary credits, AG tracks issuance, holding,  transfer, and retirement to help prevent double issuance, double use, and double claiming. 

AG advances both emission-reduction and carbon-removal projects: 

• Emission-reduction projects: solar power, wind power, biomass power, renewable energy-paired / curtailment-recovery battery storage, CBG (Compressed BioGas), WtE  (Waste-to-Energy), AWD (Alternate Wetting and Drying), and more 

• Carbon-removal projects: biochar, and capture of atmospheric or biogenic CO₂ with  permanent fixation/storage, and more 

Figure 1: AG’s credit portfolio — both emission reduction (Reduction) and carbon removal (Removal), created as high integrity credits aligned with CDOP / CAD Trust, with additionality, permanence where applicable, and no double  counting 

This spans a diverse set of projects from energy transition to carbon removal, providing a high quality credit portfolio tailored to buyers’ needs. 

AG’s Initiative 2 — Solving Market Challenges through GX-ETS / VCM Anchored in JCM and J-Credit, AG operates across both Japan’s emissions trading scheme 

“GX-ETS” (entering full operation from fiscal 2026) and the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM). 

As a CDOP Committee Member, AG brings the practical knowledge of the Japanese market into  international discussions on data standardization and interoperability, advances the alignment  and connection of domestic and international credits, and works to resolve the market challenges  described above. 

AG’s Initiative 3 — CFP Visualization and the In-house “GIPP” Platform 

In addition to data alignment with CDOP and CAD Trust, and in light of the ongoing revision of  the GHG Protocol, AG is advancing the visualization of product carbon footprints (CFP). 

Specifically, AG addresses the hourly (time-based) matching (Hourly Matching) and  geographic deliverability (Deliverability) being considered in the Scope 2 revision proposal, as  well as the acquisition and use of supplier-specific primary data (Primary Data) in Scope 3  and product-level emissions accounting. 

As a platform that digitizes information such as product carbon footprints, shares it across the  supply chain, and is ready for storage in and linkage with a future Digital Product Passport  (DPP), AG has developed its proprietary platform “GIPP (GX Integration & Project Platform).” 

GIPP is a GX data platform that organizes field data into verifiable, auditable evidence and  supports third-party verification/certification, credit issuance, and market integration. 

Launch of the New “Carbon Gateway” Business 

In conjunction with this announcement, AG launches “Carbon Gateway,” a carbon market  digital infrastructure business. 

Through integration with GIPP, CDOP, CAD Trust, and others, Carbon Gateway is AG’s carbon  market digital infrastructure business that supports the generation, standardization,  connection, and tracking of carbon credit data.

Figure 2: Overview of Carbon Gateway — GIPP converts field digital data into verifiable, auditable value  (environmental, financial, market), while integration with CDOP and CAD Trust handles the generation, standardization,  connection, and tracking of data 

Comment from the Founder & CEO 

“For carbon markets to truly grow into an investable asset class, a ‘common language that  turns carbon into an investment asset’ is indispensable. Through participation in both  CDOP’s PPWG and TWG, AG will contribute as a Japanese company to building the  international standards for data standardization and interoperability, and — drawing on more  than ten years of on-the-ground JCM experience — will supply high-quality credits with  assured integrity and traceability to the world.” 

— Tomonori Kimura, Founder & CEO, Asian Gateway Corporation 

Notes 

• Note 1: “First Japanese company” is based on AG’s own research, referencing CDOP’s  official participant list (Committee Members / Observers / Supporters) and the public  information of each organization as of this release (June 15, 2026). It does not indicate  whether any company previously participated and later withdrew. 

• Note 2: A CCP label is applied to credits issued by a crediting program assessed as CCP eligible by the ICVCM, from CCP-approved credit categories and eligible  methodologies/versions. Eligibility and approval status vary by crediting program, category,  methodology, and version. The ICVCM does not directly “CCP-certify” individual projects; it  assesses crediting programs and their credit categories / eligible methodologies.

• Note 3: “dMRV” stands for “digital MRV”; MRV refers to Monitoring, Reporting and  Verification (some sources expand “M” as “Measurement”). Verification denotes ex-post  confirmation of results and differs from Validation, which confirms project design ex ante.