EcoGuard Global, a Swiss-based climate-tech company and spin-off of Web3 and AI technology engineering firm The Hashgraph Group (THG), and the Confederation of Coconut Farmers Organizations (CONFED) of the Philippines have announced the official go-live of the CONFED Carbon Office. The platform is designed to provide digital carbon market infrastructure supporting more than 3 million coconut farmers across the Philippines.
The launch follows the collaboration agreement announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2026, when EcoGuard and CONFED announced plans to establish the Philippines’ first digital Carbon Office on the Hedera network. The EcoGuard platform combines carbon project registration, digital monitoring, reporting and verification (dMRV), documentation, traceability, carbon credit management and transaction capabilities within a single digital environment. It is designed to support the issuance, transfer and retirement of carbon units while enabling project developers and farmers to access climate finance with greater transparency and efficiency.
The platform can support carbon projects across approximately 3.6 million hectares of coconut-growing farmland in the Philippines. EcoGuard has deployed its proprietary carbon bank architecture, workflow automation and more than 60 digitised carbon methodologies to support registry-grade traceability, auditable data provenance and reduced risks of double-counting across the carbon asset lifecycle.
Charles Avila, President of CONFED, said, “The Philippines has significant potential to participate in global carbon markets through its extensive coconut-growing regions, agroforestry landscapes and agricultural communities. We are very pleased with the launch of the CONFED Carbon Office platform with EcoGuard as an important step towards converting potential into measurable climate impact and practical financial opportunity for farmers.”
Yashodhan Ramteke, CEO of EcoGuard Global, said, “The go-live of the CONFED Carbon Office is more than a technology deployment; it is the delivery of the promise we made in Davos. EcoGuard has built and brought live the digital carbon market infrastructure needed by CONFED to connect coconut farmers, project developers, buyers and investors through a trusted carbon ecosystem in Philippines.”
The platform supports project origination and onboarding, digital MRV and data management, carbon digital asset management, portfolio-level tracking of climate projects, carbon credit transactions and monetisation, project documentation and traceability, investor and buyer engagement, and transparent digital records across the carbon value chain.
As part of its engagement in the Philippine carbon market, EcoGuard has made its first investment in the initial tranche of credits expected from the Samar COCAL Agroforestry Project. Located on Samar, the country’s third-largest island, the project is the first major project onboarded onto the platform and has the potential to generate 200,000 carbon credits annually. Stefan Deiss, Co-Founder and CEO of The Hashgraph Group, said the launch provides CONFED and the Philippines with Hedera-powered infrastructure for the issuance, tracking, trading and retirement of carbon credits under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
EcoGuard is working with Telenym as an on-ground technology partner to connect individual farmers to the platform, while digital data collection is supported by national satellite-enabled initiatives. The company is also engaging with government departments including the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy and Department of Science and Technology. EcoGuard and CONFED plan to further expand the platform by strengthening farmer connectivity, developing a pipeline of carbon projects and supporting carbon market infrastructure aligned with international climate finance frameworks.
