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Solving climate problems: 4 Blockchain projects that have a real-world impact

We introduce 4 innovative climate blockchain projects and their positive, real-world impact on the environment and the communities in which they’re based.

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Build with Celo on Toucan

The B_WC Hackathon season has started. Use Toucans infrastructure to integrate real climate action into your existing project or to build a dApp that improves the VCM. $20k in prices up for grabs!

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WEF white paper: Blockchains' role in scaling climate action

We sum up key findings from the World Economic Forum (WEF) whitepaper Blockchain for Scaling Climate Action, from exciting trends to barriers to scale.

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What are carbon credit retirements?

What exactly are carbon credit retirements, and how do they drive climate action? We look at the lifecycle of carbon credits - from the project planning phase to retirement.

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Sylvera interview: Baselines, storytelling & incentivizing high-integrity carbon credits

We spoke to Polly Thompson from Sylvera about how transparency in the VCM helps people and organizations take more efficient climate action.

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What is climate tech, and why should you get involved?

The climate tech industry is a rapidly growing field with unique opportunities to make a meaningful impact. We explore what climate tech is, who can work in climate & why blockchains are key to scale impact.

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Introducing: The Core Carbon Principles 💡

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) launched the hotly anticipated Core Carbon Principles (CCPs). They define a common understanding of what makes a high-integrity carbon credit.

Toucan 🤝 Regen Network: Expanding liquidity for tokenized carbon credits

Toucan's new carbon bridge to Regen Ledger will allow tokenized carbon credits to flow freely between Toucan's infrastructure on Polygon & Celo and Regen Network's eco-registry in the Cosmos ecosystem.

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Meet Mitchell - Founder of Carbonlink

Carbonlink is a platform to buy, manage, and retire on-chain environmental credits in one place. Companies get the benefit of Web3, but without the hassle. Learn more!

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Meet Lena 👋 – Toucans Developer Advocate

Building on Toucans infrastructure just became a whole lot easier: Our new developer advocate Lena is here to help you develop climate action products on the Celo blockchain.

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What is Regenerative Finance (ReFi)?

Regenerative Finance (often shortened to ReFi) is a transparent, accessible, and inclusive alternative to traditional financial systems. We'll explore the basics of ReFi, and look into what it can mean for individuals and businesses.

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Toucan's carbon retirement module launches on Celo

Celo users around the world can now conveniently retire carbon credits directly from their mobile phone via Celo’s user-friendy mobile application. Protocols can include climate action into every transaction.

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Applying a powerful set of tools to a complex set of problems: A stroll through Toucan's history

Applying a powerful set of tools to a complex set of problems: A stroll through Toucan's history. How we got to where we are, and what we learned along the way.

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Why Crypto is good for the planet

Blockchain technology is becoming more sustainable. We look at how users, founders and developers leverage this new tool for good.

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Meet Rez — Co-Founder of Solid World

Climate tech startup Solid World aims to revolutionize carbon project financing: With their products, they are unlocking liquid, derisked, and diversified forward carbon markets.

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Key terms in the Digital Carbon Market (DVCM) — explained

What is tokenization? What is DeFi? What is composability? We're explaining some of the most commonly used terms and concepts in the DVCM.

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‘Meet the Founders’: Profiling climate tech builders

“Meet the Founders” is a series of open conversations with top climate builders leveraging blockchain technology for climate action.

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We're answering 9 questions about Toucan

Toucan is building technology to unlock climate action at scale. We are answering the 9 most frequently asked questions about Toucan’s architecture, purpose and vision. Let’s get started!

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Meet Alexandre Peschel — Co-Founder of Atem

Carbon tech startup Atem provides enterprises with a convenient end-to-end carbon management system that covers everything from sourcing credits to retiring them.

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Toucan 🤝 Neutral | Exchange for ReFi assets

Toucan and Neutral will further develop market infrastructure for ecological assets🌲with an exchange for ReFi assets.

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Why the VCM needs more transparency

Improving transparency in the rapidly growing VCM was a major topic of conversation in 2022. More transparency increases trust and participation in the market.

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Carbon Markets need balanced scrutiny

The VCM has flaws, but it is the most established tool we have to coordinate on financing climate solutions on a global scale. Why balanced scrutiny is so important for carbon markets.

Moving forward: a look at Verra's public consultation summary

Verra concluded a consultation on the tokenization of carbon credits with formulated opinions and questions. Key points here!

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Meet Kieran White - Co-Founder and CEO of Return

Meet Kieran White - CO-Founder CEO of Return. Return makes taking climate action fun, easy and finally make sense.

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The Digital VCM will come to prominence in 2023. Here's why.

In 2023, a digital-first carbon market will take shape. It can improve credit integrity, transparency, accessibility and quality of supply and demand — provided that its actors are able to rise to existing challenges.