The Climate and Energy Investment Digital Asset Exchange Group (Dubai) was established to innovate global climate finance and investment models, and to promote the achievement of the Paris Agreement goals with high quality.

The Paris Agreement, as a historic document jointly reached by 195 parties worldwide, establishes long-term goals and core principles for global climate action, providing top-level design and legal foundations for climate governance in the coming decades. Among them, Articles 6, 9, and 13 emphasize the need to incentivize countries to mobilize private sector funding, promote carbon market trading, foster innovative climate finance cooperation through market and non-market cooperation mechanisms, and build a global carbon credit mechanism regulated by the United Nations to ensure the establishment of a transparent and credible reporting and accounting system.

Under this framework, the United Nations Global Leadership and ESG Development Center (UNGLEP) and the UAE 2031 Global Strategic Partnership Office jointly signed a cooperation document titled “Building Innovative Climate Finance Models Together to Promote the Achievement of the Paris Agreement Goals with High Quality.” This initiative explicitly states that it will explore the construction of “transparent rules for the digital trading of global carbon credits and carbon assets, rights confirmation, and transparent governance mechanisms” based on blockchain technology and ISO ESG standards.

Under this initiative, supported by the UAE 2031 Global Strategic Partnership Office and directly led by UAE Prince Sheikh Hamad Rakadh Salem Hamad Alameri, the Matra Group and the Social Impact Investment Fund (SIIF) jointly established the “Climate and Energy Investment Digital Asset Exchange Group (Dubai).”

This trading platform will be based on Web 3.0 and blockchain technology to provide systematic solutions and a trading platform for the key challenges of severe liquidity shortages in global climate assets and clean energy investments, fragmentation of international carbon markets, and lack of regulatory transparency in trading and offsetting. In the future, it will also be an important platform for the trading of digital assets related to sovereign countries' NDC climate investment and financing, making Dubai a global trading hub for climate and clean energy investment digital assets.