March brought new faces and tangible steps forward across pilots, tools, and community structure. Here’s the snapshot.

• Pilots and Early Adopters Multiply:

  New implementation pilots are kicking off across sectors—critical minerals, electronics, agriculture, and vehicle identity. These projects are helping to clarify real-world requirements and expose the gaps between theory and practice, especially around interoperability and traceability at scale.

• Growing Participation:

  The community continues to expand with contributors joining from industry, government, and standards bodies globally. Notably, more industry groups (from Australia, Canada, and Europe) are bringing domain expertise—especially in biofuels, metals, and regulatory reporting.

• Governance Model Maturing:

  The working group made progress on evolving governance for UNTP. Plans are underway to transition core repository ownership to the UN Secretariat and set up an Extensions Governance Board, giving extension communities a formal voice in ongoing direction and standards.

• Implementation Support and Tools:

  Key progress on the UNTP Playground:

  • Now supports validation for both core credentials and extensions.
  • Early conformance testing is underway, with plans for downloadable, verifiable reports.
  • Feedback is shaping improvements—particularly around schema, semantics, and making the platform accessible to non-technical implementers.
• Sustainability Vocabulary Catalog Underway:

  A shared catalog is being developed to help scheme owners publish machine-readable sustainability criteria—addressing the challenge of referencing rules, criteria, and schemes across borders and industries.

• Sector Extensions and Use Cases:

  Early work is focusing on how UNTP can support bulk materials and “mass balance” accounting (e.g., for minerals and agricultural products). There’s healthy debate on whether new passport types are needed, or if existing models (with extensions) will suffice. For now, the preference is to keep things simple and test real-world scenarios vs creating new standards.

• Information Architecture and Community Structure:

  Feedback and UX research are informing an update to the documentation site, aimed at making it easier for both business and technical users to find what they need, and paving the way for future growth.

Interested in contributing?

If you have relevant expertise or would like to participate in pilots, working groups, or sector extensions, you’re welcome to join the conversation on UNTP Slack or GitHub. Contributions—whether technical, operational, or business-focused—are always needed as the project scales up. More on the UNTP site.

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