Carbon credit score scores company BeZero Carbon introduced the acquisition of AI-powered local weather information startup Cedar, with the transaction geared toward advancing the due diligence capabilities of BeZero’s carbon markets platform.
Based in 2025 by Farouq Ghandour, Piotr Kosiński and Raphaël Haupt, New York-based Cedar offers options to automate complicated sustainability duties comparable to carbon accounting, local weather due diligence, emissions reporting, and renewable power evaluation utilizing AI brokers.
London-based BeZero is a scores company for carbon markets, offering carbon scores, analysis and information merchandise backed by a group of local weather scientists, earth remark specialists, information scientists and monetary analysts. The corporate’s platform offers subscribers with entry to BeZero’s scores evaluation, in addition to a set of self-service information and analytical instruments, together with an AI assistant, pre-rating scorecards, and geospatial tooling, serving to customers to evaluate challenge threat.
The businesses stated that each one three Cedar co-founders will be a part of BeZero as a part of the transaction.
Farouq Ghandour, CEO and co-founder of Cedar, stated:
“BeZero has constructed the sort of scores rails that underpin extra mature markets, with a degree of scientific rigour we deeply respect. We’re becoming a member of to make that scientific intelligence extra accessible and to increase their platform due-diligence instruments that permit extra of the market act with confidence.”
BeZero stated that the acquisition of Cedar will speed up its path to constructing extra refined instruments on its platform, enhancing its self-service choices and due diligence workflows.
The corporate added that the acquisition comes at a time of accelerating demand for expert-led carbon scores to tell buy selections, including that it expects to grow to be regulated below the EU’s ESG laws later this yr.
Tommy Ricketts, CEO and co-founder of BeZero Carbon, stated:
“This acquisition will provide our clients higher instruments to entry insights, interrogate information, and have better confidence when making funding selections.”
