The Elephant in the (Hotel) Room. The travel industry is a major contributor to the climate crisis, accounting for approximately 8% to 11% of global carbon emissions. Hotels and rental properties are responsible for a significant portion of this footprint, alongside air travel and other forms of transportation. Travel accommodations consume a notable amount of electricity…

How industries that are already helping the world decarbonize can accelerate efforts, respond to client needs, solve regulatory requirements and drive new business forward, by easily adding renewable energy procurement in their apps 🏃‍♂️TL;DR ➔ New regulation makes scope 2 & 3 emissions reporting mandatory for a large number of companies in the US & EU which poses huge challenges for many companies

web3 clean energy solutions should solve real problems for real users and provide users with transparent audit trails that sync with renewable energy certificate registries — In support of our mission to power the energy transition by programming renewable energy into everything, we made the early choice to work within the framework of current sustainability standards. Why? Because we know it is essential that the companies and individuals we support in their decarbonization journey can feel…

🚀 Launching today, the platform to #MakeCryptoGreen is presented by Zero Labs and a growing list of 22 partners from the Ethereum Community, Regenerative Finance (ReFi) and Public Goods movements: Protocol Labs, Filecoin, Filecoin Green and it’s team Alan Ransil and Marc Johnson, Nick Johnson from ENS, Web3Auth, Toucan, KlimaDao, Helios, Fracton Ventures, Carbonbase, Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol, Cred Protocol, Neutral Protocol, Philand.xyz, Tres Cool, Public Nouns, Deimos, Zumo, FutureQuest and Ben West from Gitcoin

The U.S. SEC’s proposed rule on climate-related disclosures and U.S. EPA’s new guidance on procuring renewables on behalf of others elevates the opportunity for companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across their value chains — Every company has a “value chain” that includes suppliers and customers. These value chains represent a large source of greenhouse gas emissions under what is known as “Scope 3” in the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. While companies have made significant progress with procuring carbon-free electricity to power their offices, factories, and…

Zero Labs will help scale climate action by making it easy to procure renewable energy and prove it — February 3, 2022 — Today, we are excited to announce Zero Labs, a startup that develops solutions for companies and individuals to integrate decarbonization into their operations and day to day lives. Zero Labs will leverage market insights and technical progress achieved with the open-source Energy Web Zero solution between…