Tackling climate change using blockchain technology

Effective Sustainability Solutions is pleased to announce our free webinar.

Join us for an insightful webinar featuring Derek Mayers (zero carbon project) & Dr. Shaun Conway (IOX Foundation)

Understanding distributed ledger technologies #dlt #blockchain and how it could be used as a tool to help tackle #climatechange

Towards a #sustainablefuture

Register in advance for this webinar:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/21bb934­4abab2fe666858a512be5123a

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• September 4 (1).pdf

It will be great, all of you are most welcome, join us!!

Past webinars were very insightful. Here's the recording of the session with Tom Szaky, CEO at TerraCycle,
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sKczGYw­qLPb9hadrgbr0Z1RLaAp-blCc/view?usp=drive­sdk

great to see some of the effective sustainability solutions meetup crew here

Hi Greta,
Sadly I am travelling in the air at that time.
Would it be possible to email me slides after? [email protected]
I have registered for the event
Many thanks
Jon

Hi Jon,
Yes we should be able to share the presentations after the event

Hello! 3 hours to go! Let us meet all in today's webinar on tackling climate change using blockchain (12pm London time). We did test runs with our guests and I can tell you this will be a really good session!

For those who want to know more about DLT and its role in addressing Climate Emergency, there is a comprehensive report from ETH Zurich:

https://www.climate-kic.org/wp-content/u­ploads/2018/11/DLT-for-Climate-Action-As­sessment-Nov-2018.pdf

Here are a few summary of the summary points :)

• Climate change is a global problem, but it requires a decentralised, multi-stakeholder, bottom-up approach to be solved.
  
• It requires an open and transnational platform of existing (carbon markets, taxes, pricing) and evolving climate action instruments (NDCs).
  
• LT is a technology (an IT system) to manage a database, without a central administrator or centralised data storage.
  
• Smart contracts are rule-based computer code without a “spirit of the agreement”, which creates new vulnerabilities (e.g., as witnessed by the USD 150 million DAO smart contract hack), however they could still be powerful tools to increase the level of decentralization.
  
• Benefits of DLT:
  
• Fault tolerance; Attack resistance; Resistance to collusion and abuse of power; nobody needs to ask for permission to launch an application on DLT-based systems, competition and thus the rate of innovation increases; DLT is more efficient at dealing with inherently decentralised systems; it's borderless, transnational and neutral; Once a DLT transaction has received a sufficient level of validation, the transaction can never be replaced or deleted; there are always options to exit a given system and with that the power of the users willing to stay and change the system from within increases; DLTs enable new market networks; oT & AI: DLT enables smart networks based on IoT and AI to develop their full potential without exposing humanity to the risk associated with centralised approaches; DLTs buy social scalability by spending a lot of resources and computational scalability, i.e. they sacrifice computational efficiency.
  
• Drawbacks of DLT:
  *Highly inefficient database: DLT is a factor of up to 1 million times less efficient than a centralised database; Stricter and slower development: Changes, updates and patches to DLTs work on a voluntary basis; Creating the right incentive structures and making sure that all actors in the system cannot abuse or corrupt the ledger, is a big challenge; Writing into a centralised database needs to be done once, writing into a distributed ledger needs to be done as many times as there are nodes that carry a copy of the ledger; No control over misbehaving users: it is only the rules defined in the software that can refuse service.
  
  

You will need to read more for a comprehensive overview :)

Thank you Anna, most useful!

Hi! Here's the link to the webinar! Enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TdVx3V­nJ__qPprpMcZP9PzuVgjEE1M0P

We need a mindset shift and systemic tune-up/bottom-up that will fix the immune system for future generations.