Sentinel Earth and 123Carbon issue the world’s first Environmental Attribute Certificates from battery-electric, heavy-duty vehicles.

First Environmental Attribute Certificates from the Azure Road project are now available to corporate buyers tackling Scope 3 freight emissions

CHAM, Switzerland and LEIDEN, Netherlands, Wednesday June 10^th, 2026

Sentinel Earth and 123Carbon today announced that Azure Road, a heavy-duty battery-electric trucking project in China, is now listed on the 123Carbon registry. This is the first time that Environmental Attribute Certificates (EACs) from heavy-duty trucking have been issued on a global registry, following the Market Based Measures methodology developed by Smart Freight Centre. The EAC’s are available for purchase by corporate buyers seeking to reduce emissions within their value chains.

Heavy-duty road freight is one of the hardest parts of any corporate Scope 3 inventory to address. Azure Road, developed by Sentinel Earth, gives corporate buyers a verified way to credit real emission reductions inside their supply chains.

"Freight is where a lot of corporate decarbonisation plans stall, because the emissions sit deep in the supply chain and there has rarely been a credible way to act on them. Azure Road changes that. Buyers can point to real trucks, real kilometres and independently verified reductions, and account for them inside their own value chain," said Jin Guo, Chief Financial Officer and Head of APAC, Sentinel Earth.

“The business case for electric trucking is still challenging. High vehicle costs and the complexity of operating efficient electric routes can make it difficult for carriers to achieve attractive returns. By generating Environmental Attribute Certificates, carriers can unlock additional value from their emissions reductions. We believe this project demonstrates how a trusted registry and high-quality transport insets can accelerate EV adoption and inspire more fleet operators to issue certificates through the 123Carbon platform,” said Jeroen van Heiningen, Managing Director of 123Carbon

How it works

• A fleet of 287 battery-electric trucks replaces diesel haulage across four Chinese provinces, generating independently verified emission reductions.
• Those reductions are issued as EACs on the 123Carbon registry.
• Corporate buyers purchase and retire the EACs to credit verified reductions against their own Scope 3 freight emissions (Categories 4 and 9).

In 2025, the Azure Road fleet delivered more than 289 million tonne-kilometres of freight across Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Sichuan and Yunnan, consuming 14.8 million kWh of electricity.

Verified and transparent

The Azure Road reductions are independently verified by Normec Verifavia, accredited to ISO 14065 and ISO/IEC 17029, and quantified using the GLEC Framework, the recognised standard for logistics emissions accounting. The certificates are designed to conform with the Market Based Measures methodology developed by Smart Freight Centre, the leading global methodology for Transport-based EACs. Each EAC is issued through 123Carbon's blockchain-backed registry, where all environmental attributes are uniquely tracked to prevent double counting and to maintain a clear chain of custody from operator to buyer.

Availability

The first Azure Road EACs are available now on the 123Carbon registry. To discuss purchases, contact Jin Guo at jin.guo@sentinelearth.com.