climate change

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MakerDAO Constitution Would Fund Sustainability Efforts With 20K MKR Tokens From Reserves, Emissions
With “scientific sustainability” as a core principle, an early draft of the proposed Maker constitution would, if approved, play an active role in combating climate change by allocating $14 million worth of MKR tokens to its Scientific Sustainability Fund.
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BxC launch at Davos
Solana Foundation, Ripple, GBBC and Others Form Partnership to Promote Crypto Solutions for Climate Change
Climate solutions "makes the most sense" for real-world applications of blockchain, a co-founder of the initiative told CoinDesk.
BxC launch at Davos

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ReFi Is Going Mainstream
The successful Ethereum Merge is just the start of a growing movement to leverage crypto rails to fight climate change.
several seedlings on soil (Taif Rahaman/Unsplash)

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Ethereum Software Firm ConsenSys Co-Launches Ethereum Climate Platform
The initiative aims to address Ethereum’s excess energy consumption before it went through the Merge.
Environment Technology Future (DALL-E/CoinDesk)

CDCROP: Bird's Nest Light Bulb Cage (Eliza Gkritsi)
In the Colombian Andes, Figuring Out How Crypto Can Save the Climate
Earnest eco-crypto nerds at a three-day retreat attempted to resolve interoperability among crypto-climate projects.
CDCROP: Bird's Nest Light Bulb Cage (Eliza Gkritsi)

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dClimate: Smart Contracts for the Warming World
dClimate’s Sid Jha, a speaker at CoinDesk’s IDEAS conference, is a decentralized marketplace for climate-related data.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Moscow-appointed heads of four Ukrainian regions, partially occupied by Russia, at the Grand Kremlin Palace on September 30, 2022, in Moscow. Putin's kleptocratic autocracy has benefitted his network of cronies, but is dramatically cutting Russian citizens off from the rest of the world. (Contributor#8523328/Getty Images)
Deglobalization Is Happening. Crypto Is Part of the Answer
The rise of a common global financial infrastructure will continue as the international landscape becomes even more fragmented by war and disaster.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Moscow-appointed heads of four Ukrainian regions, partially occupied by Russia, at the Grand Kremlin Palace on September 30, 2022, in Moscow. Putin's kleptocratic autocracy has benefitted his network of cronies, but is dramatically cutting Russian citizens off from the rest of the world. (Contributor#8523328/Getty Images)

Money Reimagined Podcast Cover
Blockchains, Climate Change and the Trading of Carbon Credits
The excitement around the new Web3 Stack, the ReFi ecosystem and carbon system for a healthier climate.
Money Reimagined Podcast Cover

The Greenidge Generation facility in Dresden New York. (CoinDesk)
New York Environmental Regulators Deny Greenidge’s Power Plant Permit
Greenidge Generation has been in hot water with environmentalists for its use of fossil fuels to power its bitcoin mining operation on New York’s Seneca Lake.
The Greenidge Generation facility in Dresden New York. (CoinDesk)

The White House
US and EU Look to Blockchain to Track Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council’s Climate and Clean Tech working group announced its aims in a joint document published Monday.
The White House