Wishing everyone a Happy New Year 2025! Exciting news: Our CEO, Bertrand Le Nézet, has announced a strategic partnership between Viridios Group and Bloomberg. Learn more below
As we step into 2025, I want to wish you all a year filled with progress, impact, and collective success. Looking back at 2024, I sincerely hope that all the hard work, improvements, and behind-the-scenes efforts we delivered together will bear fruit this year. To the leaders in climate action: your courage and commitment pave the way, but we need?thousands more?to follow.?Sustainability is a complex journey, and yes, mistakes will be made along the way—but that’s okay. The world doesn’t need a handful of perfect corporations. What we need are?millions of imperfect businesses?taking real, tangible climate action—because scale is what matters most in the fight against climate change. ?? A Chapter Closes, a Legacy Lives On After months of work, I’m excited to share that we’ve finalized a strategic transaction that marks the next chapter for Viridios AI. Many of you have reached out to ask why we decided to shut down the Viridios AI platform in December. The answer lies in our mission from day one: to build the? Bloomberg of the carbon markets. This journey, which began in 2020, has now come full circle. In 2020, leveraging AI wasn’t cool (yet!)?— for us, it was simply the best tool to model the prices of the highly idiosyncratic nature of the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM), taking into account diverse set of attributes like the project type, the jurisdiction and the co-benefits (#SDGs). I’m incredibly proud of what we accomplished: state-of-the-art pricing and analytics capabilities that brought transparency to a traditionally opaque and illiquid market. ?? 3 Years of Recognition Winning Environmental Finance’s Best Market Innovation Award three years in a row (2022, 2023, 2024) was a testament to the talent and dedication of the Viridios AI team. Now, our work lives on through Bloomberg, a leader with unmatched expertise in financial markets and analytics. I’m confident Bloomberg will build on this legacy and push boundaries even further. ?? Gratitude and Reflections To our customers: your kind words during the platform’s closure announcement meant the world to us. Your trust was the driving force behind everything we did. To our partners—S&P Global, BeZero Carbon, Sylvera, Climate Collective and Trayport: thank you for the collaborations and lessons learned. Together, we achieved great things. To the passionate employees of Viridios AI: your dedication and creativity have been nothing short of inspiring. It’s been a challenging yet rewarding ride, filled with hard work—and plenty of fun. And finally, to Eddie Listorti: thank you for believing in the “algorithmic trading nerd” I was when we started this adventure. This market, and the incredible people within it, have made the past five years unforgettable. Here’s to scaling transparency and impact in the #VCM for years to come. #CarbonMarkets #VoluntaryCarbonMarket #Sustainability #AI #Innovation #Tech #Analytics Margaret Morales Tea Bano Vasil Velev Anna Lerner Nesbitt