Despite the bad rap that blockchain gets when it comes to its environmental impacts, it has the potential to create a much more sustainable global financial system than the one that exists today by cutting down on the need for sprawling financial infrastructure, and by reducing the environmental impacts of cryptocurrency.

Five examples of bitcoin mining operations that have come up with innovative ways to run more environmentally friendly operations.

Despite the bad rap that cryptocurrency gets when it comes to its environmental impacts, crypto projects around the world are disrupting climate finance by coming up with new and novel ways to incentivize a low carbon future, one of which, is the tokenization of carbon sequestering assets.

As we enter 2022, the web3 space looks to build off the momentum of the past year. Here are five crypto and blockchain social impact trends to monitor in 2022, that we expect to grow and thrive.

In this episode, we have the privilege of being joined by Sean Honeyman and Christian Chegne, Co-Founders of Crypto Coral Tribe. We discuss the role crypto, NFTs, and community can play in enacting social change, their plans to support marine and wildlife conservation, and the future of crypto for social impact.

In this episode, we have the privilege of being joined by Stefan Renton, Head of Product and Sustainability at REVERSE. REVERSE has the goal of reversing Climate Change by utilizing the power of Blockchain and the web3 community.

For far too long, the prevailing narrative has focused on the negative aspects of crypto and blockchain as it related to climate change. However, not often discussed are the many ways that this revolutionary technology can, play an essential role in combatting and adapting to climate change in the future.

Blockchain-based solutions can help build a more equitable and sustainable agricultural sector, helping even the playing field for smallholder farmers in remote communities.

In the first post in a series highlighting the social impact projects operating on specific blockchains, we highlight three exciting Celo-based social impact projects.

Celo Foundation recently announced the launch of the Celo Climate Collective to compete for XPRIZE’s 100M Carbon Removal Challenge

With increased climate catastrophes being all but inevitable in the future, it will be important to have systems in place to support the world’s most vulnerable. Blockchain can play an essential role in developing and implementing these systems.

In the introduction to this series, we highlighted three potential use cases for blockchain and cryptocurrency in the fight against climate change.

VeChain’s Digital Carbon Footprint SaaS platform provides a practical solution to the challenge of unverified data in supply chains, helping corporations better understand the environmental impacts of their production processes.

The ReSea project is partnering with VeChain and DNV to implement an innovative, blockchain-based process to verify plastic removed from oceans and rivers.

Is Crypto truly terrible for the environment? This debate has raged on for quite some time, especially around Bitcoin, and has only intensified lately. So is it fact or fiction?