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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.

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Say hello to ReGenerate 👋

ReGenerate is a fortnightly newsletter highlighting movements, projects, and initiatives that make our carbon markets better. Sign up to stay in the loop.

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Carbon Retirements: A gift for the planet & people in your life

Retire carbon credits on-chain and receive a giftable Christmas-themed retirement certificate. The process is simple and takes minutes — instructions below. The best part? Toucan will match all NCT carbon retirement gifts as an extra present for the planet 💚🌏

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Meet Farouq Ghandour - CEO and Founder of Neutral

Meet Farouq Ghandour - CEO and Founder of Neutral. Neutral is an exchange for ReFi assets allowing users to trade spot assets and derivative instruments.

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Meet Helena Merk - CEO of Spirals

Meet Helena Merk - Founder of Spirals. Spirals makes it easy for any money to automatically work towards climate impact.

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Meet Adrian Wons - Founder of Senken

Meet Adrian Wons - Founder of Senken. Senken is the gateway to on-chain carbon credits from verified climate projects.

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Tokenization of carbon credits — an explainer

Tokenized carbon is the digital representation of real-world carbon credits on the blockchain. We explain how tokenization works, look at risks, benefits, and the potential of this novel technology for climate solutions

ReFi for the global south: An emergent movement

ReFi movement in the global south has the potential to lift millions from poverty, while driving sustainable regenerative actions to tackle climate change

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Why the FTX debacle proves that DeFi (and ReFi) are the future

The FTX Group has filed for bankruptcy. What implications does this have for the crypto industry and for on-chain carbon? A piece to put the recent events in perspective.

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KYC in Web3 carbon markets

How can KYC be implemented in web3 carbon markets? Here, we explore what it means, and what the different moving pieces are

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5 ways web3 can accelerate climate action

What are the core ideas around blockchains and web3-incentivized climate action? What are the key barriers that might get in the way of success?

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deCarbonized #31: DAC’s journey to scale; responses to Integrity Council’s draft carbon principles

Tracing the evolving contours of the Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology; understanding IC-VCM’s public consultation on Core Carbon Principles, and Verra, Gold Standard’s reactions to it

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Decoding Verra, Gold Standard responses to IC-VCM’s draft carbon principles

How different stakeholders view the Integrity Council's core carbon principles, and how it could shape the voluntary carbon markets going forward

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Toucan 🤝 Return Protocol | Automating climate action

Toucan partners with Return Protocol. Together, we'll make climate action across blockchains as simple as possible! Learn more here!

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Toucan Grants Season 1 Roundup

Toucan Grants recipients, Season 1: Carbon project origination infrastructure & carbon marketplaces, NFT utility, GameFi, and a regenerative metaverse

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Toucan Burn Report Vol 2 – supporting the cleanup of the BCT pool 🌍

Economics should be regenerative by design. A living example for this is our fee structure: 80% of specific fees are used to retire the lowest-quality carbon credits in Toucan carbon pools.

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deCarbonized #30: Lacunae in CDR frameworks; ReFi’s expanding horizons

From ocean conservation to climate-positive NFTs, ReFi projects are changing the world; the need for greater policy scrutiny; blockchain and voluntary carbon markets