Crypto's climate impact: Are carbon offsets good enough?
Carbon offsets could be an important step in the crypto industry’s move toward carbon neutrality, although some experts see them as a pure greenwash. As global leaders discuss what needs to be done to address the concerns surrounding climate change at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland, businesses throughout the world are looking to achieve carbon neutrality. Environmental impact has been a hot topic in the crypto sector with renaming it as being a top priority.Earlier this year, electric car maker Tesla started accepting Bitcoin (BTC) payments and invested $1.5 billion in the....
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Climate activism via blockchain is becoming a serious topic of discussion among academics and industry professionals as carbon offsets are tokenized. Climate-change focused Klima DAO has accumulated over 9 million tonnes of carbon offsets according to a Nov. 8 announcement. The USD value of those offsets has surpassed $100 million.In a blog post, the project explained that those offsets are equivalent to the annual emissions of Georgia, Jamaica, or Papua New Guinea. The Klima DAO protocol aims to increase the price appreciation of carbon assets.The core team told Cointelegraph that it....
Toucan Protocol’s Rob Schmitt believes blockchain gaming could have a much better environmental reputation if games integrated carbon offsets. Nonfungible tokens (NFT) and blockchain technology have developed an unfortunate stigma in some sections of the community for being bad for the environment — but could that perception be changed by integrating carbon offsets into NFT gaming?GameFi, or gaming finance, marry NFTs and gaming. Blockchain games account for nearly $12 million in daily volume from over a million gamers according to app tracker DappRadar. Toucan Protocol COO Rob Schmitt....
The carbon offset accumulating DAO on Polygon has rapidly increased the amount of offsets it has in its treasury by increasing spending and diversifying its source of offsets. Carbon offset protocol KlimaDAO has now accrued over 14 million on-chain carbon offsets and is causing waves in the more traditional carbon offset industry.The aim of KlimaDAO is to acquire as many carbon offsets as it can in order to drive up their value and make offset-generating activities more profitable.The Mark Cuban-backed project’s treasury has added over 5 million carbon offset tokens since late Nov. 2021,....
SkyBridge Capital has purchased 38,436 tons of tokenized carbon offsets. Global investment firm SkyBridge Capital has partnered with carbon credit provider MOSS Earth to purchase tokens representing 38,436 tons of carbon offsets. SkyBridge announced the move on August 2, with founder Anthony Scaramucci forecasting that the Bitcoin mining industry “will be fully renewable by the end of the decade." For the meantime, Scaramucci believes carbon offsets offer an “effective” means for the sector to improve its ecological footprint:"In the interim, carbon offsets represent an effective way to....
Environmental concerns plague both the crypto industry and the world at large. However, if used right, blockchain-based assets could offer some relief. Using nonfungible tokens (NFTs) as carbon credits, or carbon offsets, reveals an outlet for Web3 technology to foster a more environmentally friendly future.NFTs as carbon credits are a slow-rolling trend in the refinance market and decentralized finance (DeFi). Most of this activity currently takes place on the Polygon (MATIC) blockchain, as it has already offset its entire carbon footprint. However, the way these digital assets work with....