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CEO, Carbon Registry–India (CR-I) | Carbon Markets & Climate Technology
CEO since June 2022With NCCF since 2019COP27 · NCCF delegation
Chief Executive Officer
Richard Noel Bright is the Chief Executive Officer of Carbon Registry–India (CR-I), an initiative of the Network for Certification and Conservation of Forests (NCCF). His work focuses on carbon markets, carbon standards, climate technology, Article 6 mechanisms and technology-enabled climate action. He brings more than three decades of experience spanning digital transformation, technology and sustainability.
He leads the Registry’s operations, standards and partnerships, and the digital infrastructure behind project registration, MRV and MCU issuance.
Richard brought the Layered Assurance Framework to Carbon Registry India, enabling NCCF’s sustainability standards to integrate seamlessly with carbon crediting under the Carbon Standard. His work extends to forestry, agriculture, infrastructure, transport and more, built on one principle: resilience first, carbon next, with carbon credits as the incentive that rewards resilient practice.
Richard brings over three decades of experience in enterprise IT and digital transformation. Before joining NCCF in 2019, he was Director at Teleperformance (Digital Integrated Business Services), leading global software service delivery across nine countries. Earlier, he held leadership roles at Intelenet Global Services, Serco, Kuoni Travel, Business Travel International and Sita-Western Union.
He holds a degree in computer applications and is a certified PRINCE2 practitioner, with credentials in Cisco networking, IT service management, robotics and automation, and data analytics. He is trained as an ISO 27001 lead auditor and in ISO 14064 and ISO 9001, is adept in life cycle assessment, and has extensive exposure to ITGC, HIPAA, SOX, GRC and SOC compliance.
That blend of technology, standards development and carbon market expertise lets him help organisations put credible, verifiable climate action into practice.
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Richard Noel Bright is the Chief Executive Officer of Carbon Registry–India (CR-I), the carbon crediting programme of the Network for Certification and Conservation of Forests (NCCF). He works on the infrastructure of India’s carbon market: carbon registries, carbon standards, MRV and the technology that connects them.
Richard Bright, in full Richard Noel Bright, is CR-I’s Chief Executive Officer. He leads the Registry’s operations, standards and partnerships.
Richard Noel Bright has been Chief Executive Officer of Carbon Registry–India since June 2022. He joined NCCF in February 2019 as Director of CR-I, which went live on 16 September 2021.
He runs CR-I’s registry operations, its standards and its partnerships, and the digital systems used for project registration, MRV and the issuance of Marketable Carbon Units (MCUs).
He leads one of India’s carbon crediting programmes and brought the Layered Assurance Framework to CR-I: resilience first, carbon next. He attended COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh in 2022 as CEO of Carbon Registry–India within NCCF’s observer delegation, as recorded in the UNFCCC list of participants. He has been a member of Bureau of Indian Standards panel EED 01 since September 2024.
More than three decades in enterprise IT and digital transformation. Before NCCF he was Director, Digital Integrated Business Services at Teleperformance, leading software service delivery across nine countries, and earlier held IT leadership roles at Serco, Intelenet Global Services and Kuoni Travel.
Carbon markets, climate technology, carbon standards, Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, net zero, digital MRV, sustainability and digital transformation, across forestry, agriculture, infrastructure and transport.
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