Samsung uses blockchain technology to address climate change
The Galaxy phone maker will lead a tree-planting initiative in Madagascar and track it using distributed ledger technology. Samsung Electronics America announced Monday at the CES Tech Conference in Las Vegas its partnership with veritree, a blockchain-based climate solutions platform, to plant two million mangrove trees in Madagascar over the next three months. veritree uses blockchain technology to manage the reforestation process and verify each tree that is planted.The tree-planting initiative is part of Samsung’s nature-based action plan on environmental sustainability, specifically....
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The Swiss company TRES Group GmbH is launching an exciting and innovative program aiming at adding a solution to the Climate Change challenge. For several months, the FOSTER project has been under development, which aims to mass plant trees around the world for the benefit of increasing carbon dioxide absorption using blockchain technology. Climate the Change is an existential threat requiring participation by all to find and implement solutions to stay below 1.5 degree centigrade global warming. Nature Based Solutions are one form of alleviating CO2 emissions. Forestation and....
It’s time to unite the blockchain community with the climate change community in some concrete and scalable investments into DLT and climate action. The United Nations Climate Change Conference of November 2021, known as COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland urged the world to commit to curbing contributions to carbon emissions. Achieving a net-zero world in less than 30 years is causing many to turn to blockchain technology, buy carbon offsets, and spark renewed interest in carbon capture.The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has identified transparency, clean energy, carbon markets and....
Samsung Electronics has teamed up with IBM to develop a new application using the blockchain technology which is the basis for the digital currency Bitcoin. The announcement comes closely after the Silicon Valley subsidiary Samsung Research America of the Suwon-based mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced on April 10 that it will "develop a new online transaction verification technology through application of the Bitcoin's blockchain technology." Steve Rahman, Director of Strategy at Samsung Research America said, "The blockchain technology is very interesting in general, and it....
During the DigitalArt4Climate press conference, Cointelegraph editor-in-chief Kristina Cornèr took over the stage to understand the various blockchain initiatives that actively fight climate change. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) along with climate change entrepreneurs and Cointelegraph delved into discussing the role of emerging technologies such as blockchain in solving global issues including climate change.During the DigitalArt4Climate press conference, Cointelegraph editor-in-chief Kristina Cornèr took over the stage to understand the various....
Samsung is planning to expand its mobile payment service, Samsung Pay, into the US online shopping market. Additionally, Samsung will allow more smartphones to support the payment wallet, offering it to cheaper Samsung devices “within the next year,” according to Samsung Pay global co-general manager Thomas Ko. Samsung Pay has grown much faster than rival Apple Pay and Android Pay since the service was implemented on payment technology that is already available in most stores. Thus, by expanding into the online market, Samsung will have yet another advantage over these two competitors, as....