You Cannot Finance
What You Cannot Measure.
Climate finance, carbon markets, and export access increasingly depend on one thing: emissions data a third party will accept. TraceForce is the digital MRV (measurement, reporting and verification) platform that produces it — for exporters, for institutions, and for governments building national climate data infrastructure.
Delivery partners: EgyTrace Systems, whose TraceForce digital MRV platform powers this offering
The Requirement Has Already Changed
For most of the last decade, climate reporting was something organizations did to demonstrate good intent. That era has ended. Emissions data is now a condition of access — to European markets, to concessional finance, to carbon markets, and to international capital.
What changed is not the ambition. It is the evidence standard.
The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism entered into force on 1 January 2026, requiring importers of cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, hydrogen, and electricity to account for embedded emissions. Climate financiers increasingly require project-level results tracking rather than projections. And IFRS S2 is setting a global baseline for climate-related financial disclosure.
Each of these asks the same question: Can you prove it? Organizations and countries that can, move. Those that cannot pay a default rate set by someone else — or are left out.
What TraceForce Is
TraceForce is an enterprise digital MRV platform — measurement, reporting and verification — built by EgyTrace Systems. It replaces spreadsheets, disconnected evidence, and one-off consultant engagements with a structured system that captures source data, standardises calculations, organises review, and produces outputs designed to hold up under external scrutiny.
Measurement
Captures emissions and operational data at facility, process, and product level, drawing on IoT sensors, satellite data, and connections to existing operational systems rather than manual collection alone.
Reporting
Turns that data into structured declarations aligned to CBAM formats, buyer due-diligence requirements, and disclosure frameworks including GRI, TCFD, SASB, and Scope 1, 2 and 3 reporting.
Verification
Maintains a tamper-aware evidence chain with review checkpoints and traceable records, so reported figures can be defended to auditors, regulators, and financiers rather than merely asserted.
Integration
Connects across facilities, supply chains, ERP systems, and external reporting environments, so carbon data becomes part of the enterprise or national data stack instead of a parallel exercise.
Four Applications
The same underlying capability answers several different questions, depending on who is asking. These are the four most relevant to the institutions and enterprises in this network.
Unlocking climate finance
Many climate-vulnerable countries cannot draw down the finance their own national climate commitments require, because they lack the facility-level, sector-level, and national-level data that financiers now demand as a precondition. National climate commitments across Africa alone imply hundreds of billions of dollars in required investment — sums that stay theoretical without a reliable way to prove the results on the ground.
A national MRV platform closes that gap: it produces the auditable evidence that turns a stated financing need into a fundable pipeline, and gives a development bank the means to originate, track, and defend far more climate finance than it can support with manual reporting.
Most relevant to: governments, national development banks, ministries with climate mandates
Export competitiveness under CBAM
Exporters of carbon-intensive goods into the European Union now face a direct choice: report verified embedded emissions, or accept a default carbon price set by the regulator. That default is deliberately unfavourable, and it takes no account of how clean a producer's actual operations are. A genuinely low-carbon African producer without facility-level accounting can be priced as though it were the opposite.
Facility-level carbon accounting converts that exposure into an advantage. Producers who can prove their emissions pay for what they actually emit — and can compete on carbon performance rather than being penalised for the absence of paperwork.
Most relevant to: exporters and producers in steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, and energy-intensive manufacturing
Carbon-market participation
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement allows countries to transfer mitigation outcomes internationally, but requires corresponding adjustments to prevent the same emissions reduction being counted twice. That requirement rests entirely on robust national carbon accounting. Without it, participation is not credible — and credits that cannot be defended are worth little, regardless of the underlying climate benefit.
Traceable, continuously collected data supports credit issuance that stands up to scrutiny, prevents double counting, and turns verified emissions reductions into a revenue stream rather than an aspiration.
Most relevant to: governments, project developers, carbon-market participants
Agriculture and supply-chain traceability
Regenerative agriculture, reforestation, and land-restoration projects face a persistent commercial problem: the outcomes they produce — sequestered carbon, restored biodiversity, verified practice change — are difficult to prove to the buyers and financiers willing to pay a premium for them. The premium exists; the evidence usually does not.
Supply-chain traceability and product-level carbon accounting close that gap, allowing a producer to substantiate what happened on the land, follow it through processing and export, and access markets that pay for verified practice rather than assertion.
Most relevant to: agricultural producers, cooperatives, land-restoration programmes, food and commodity exporters
Why the Field of Digital MRV Matters
Digital MRV is not a vendor category. It's a practice — measurement, reporting, and verification — shaped by the institutions that govern climate finance and carbon markets.
What the institutional record shows
- The World Bank convened a Carbon Markets Infrastructure Working Group across 2024 and 2025, producing five technical guidance notes on the infrastructure carbon markets require. Digital MRV is one of the five, alongside ecosystem governance, transaction integrity, information security, and data interoperability.
- A World Bank study on digital MRV in future carbon markets concluded that widespread adoption of these systems, and the simplification of reporting processes they enable, would greatly increase the efficiency of carbon markets.
- The same study identified a barrier directly relevant here: developing countries often lack the capacity to use these technologies, and removing that barrier is especially important to ensure equitable access to carbon markets, particularly where capacity for innovative approaches is low.
- Digital MRV systems can be connected to national or global registries, automating the fulfilment of reporting requirements rather than treating each reporting cycle as a fresh manual exercise.
These findings concern digital MRV as an approach, not TraceForce specifically. Deployment references for the TraceForce platform are available on request.
Who Builds It
TraceForce is a product of EgyTrace Systems, which develops traceability, digital MRV, carbon-footprint monitoring, lifecycle analysis, and blockchain-backed verification systems for industry and government.
EgyTrace is led by Alaa Khalifa, Chief Executive Officer of EgyTrace Systems and of Digital Experts Marketing Consultancy. Across 35 years he has advised governments, boards, investors, and project owners on turning strategy into delivery — work spanning digital transformation, sustainability, market entry, and major-project development.
EgyTrace is a delivery partner of One Thriving Planet, and the two organisations work together on national climate-infrastructure proposals as well as enterprise deployments.
How a Partnership Moves Forward
The first step is not a procurement commitment. It is a readiness conversation.
Readiness review
We start by establishing what you already have: which data exists, where it sits, what standard it meets, and what your reporting or financing obligations actually require.
Gap assessment
Together we identify the distance between current practice and the evidence standard your regulator, financier, or buyer applies — and what closing it involves in effort, time, and cost.
Deployment design
We define scope: which facilities, sectors, or institutions come first, which modules apply, how the platform connects to existing systems, and who owns and governs the data.
Implementation and scale
Deployment proceeds from an initial scope through integration, training, and verification cycles — expanding from a first set of facilities or sectors to wider coverage as the system proves out.
Measuring a Regenerative Agriculture Programme?
Regenerative agriculture programmes across the One Thriving Planet network use TraceForce for the ground-level measurement it provides — turning restored land and changed practice into evidence a buyer or financier will accept. We're now exploring using TraceForce for similar purposes in our reforestation programs.
Experience and Recognition
The broader One Thriving Planet network includes recipients of the 2024 Nobel Sustainability Award, the 2023 Innovation in Politics Award (Europe), and the CANEX Prize — Jury Chair (Africa), among other honors. (See all awards.)
For this offering specifically: TraceForce aligns with EU CBAM, EU ETS, IFRS S2, GRI, TCFD, and SASB reporting frameworks, and is built by EgyTrace Systems under CEO Alaa Khalifa, Global Entrepreneurship Award winner (2024) and Country Director for Global Entrepreneurial Festival (GEF) 2026, the world's biggest entrepreneurial event.
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