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Why The Changeblock Marketplace?

April 6, 2022 4 Mins Read

We are currently being under served by the voluntary carbon markets. Despite their intent, they present many issues, including high intermediation, complex verification mechanisms, and confusing quality signals. But most importantly, these markets are failing due to severe inaccessibility and low innovation, which for the future, among other things, brings risks of demand overwhelming an undeveloped system. However, even with these failings, the carbon markets are still one of the most promising mechanisms to address…

In Climate Change

How can an individual take climate action by participating in the climate markets?

March 22, 2022 3 Mins Read

First impressions There is no question that ouryouthful notion of climate stability is changing. Newspaper headlines from Australia, Canada, the United States, Russia, and worldwide show an increase intemperatures, often spiking to new highs, enormous forest fires, persistentdroughts, and record floods. All these events attest to the accuracy ofscientific forecasts that temperatures will rise and the variance intemperatures and rainfall will increase. So what is to be done? ‍ It is well known that greenhousegas…

In Climate Change

The Ice is Melting. It’s Already Too Late.

February 10, 2022 6 Mins Read

‍ Rates of basal melt of Antarctic ice shelves (melting of the shelves from underneath) overlaid on a 2009 mosaic of Antarctica created from data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua spacecraft. Red shades denote melt rates of less than 5 meters (16.4 feet) per year (freezing conditions), while blue shades represent melt rates of greater than 5 meters (16.4 feet) per year (melting conditions). The perimeters of…

In Blockchain

Why the Climate Markets Need a Meta-registry & How Blockchain Technology Can Provide This

November 17, 2021 3 Mins Read

The carbon markets are being highly criticised for their inability to deliver on their founding principle — to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. There are a number of reasons they’re not reaching this goal, namely because of their highly intermediated and fragmented nature.

In Carbon

Greenhouse Gas Trading Advocates: We Have a Steep Mountain to Climb at COP (26)

November 14, 2021 4 Mins Read

The Contentious Issue of Article 6 Article 6 is the key to opening up the greenhouse gas compliance credit market, but many provisions have not been agreed upon. Outstanding issues include Article 6.2, 6.4, and 6.8 of the Paris Agreement: – Article 6.2 provides an accounting framework for international cooperation, such as linking the emissions-trading schemes of two or more countries (for example, linking the European Union cap-and-trade program with emissions-reduction transfers from Switzerland). It…

In Climate Markets

The Carbon Markets are Broken. How are Changeblock Making them Better?

November 8, 2021 4 Mins Read

The climate markets as we know them have not met the standards necessary to reach are desired climate targets and here are the reasons why.

In Blockchain

Blockchain? Is it the Right Solution for the Climate Crisis?

March 22, 2021 14 Mins Read

Solving the Net-Zero Problem with DeFi & Data A global effort. Considering any emissions trading activity as a subset of the global effort to grow the climate markets and in doing so mitigate global warming, this global effort is represented in two international institutions: · The Kyoto Protocol (top-down) · The Paris Agreement (bottom-up) These are two international, cooperative, and where appropriate legally binding agreements that together seek to reduce emissions. The Kyoto protocol splits the world into…