Published in Radical Collaboration and Blockchain for Climate Accounting·Oct 6, 2021#iCAN: New Carnegie-supported project to establish Independent Climate Accounting NetworkData-Driven EnviroLab is partnering with Open Earth Foundation on a two-year, $500,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation through its Reimagining Multilateralism grant call. The grant will allow us to build an Independent Climate Accounting Network (iCAN) to improve the efficiency of climate data collection and reporting for the Paris Agreement. …Data3 min readData3 min read
Aug 25, 2021Blockchain energy consumption: Debunking the misperceptions of Bitcoin’s and blockchain’s climate impactLaunched in 2009, Bitcoin was the first application of blockchain or distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) more broadly. Since then, both Bitcoin and blockchain have matured tremendously. Bitcoin is now a US$ 920 B financial network, and blockchain is hailed as a radically innovative technology that is set to disrupt how…Climate Change11 min readClimate Change11 min read
Published in Radical Collaboration and Blockchain for Climate Accounting·Jul 29, 2020Climate Reporting: Three Examples of the Role Blockchain can PlayThis story was originally published on the Data-Driven Lab blog on July 27, 2020. Over the recent years, “blockchain technology” has become a ubiquitous phrase in the technology realm — it is a form of technologythat distributes digital records among participating networks, whilst ensuring that the history of the data…Blockchain4 min readBlockchain4 min read
Published in Radical Collaboration and Blockchain for Climate Accounting·Jul 29, 2020PreciDatos: A Blockchain-based System for Incentivizing Actors to Disclose Accurate Climate DataCities, states and regions, companies, and investors play a critical role in meeting the urgent need to reduce emissions and transition to a decarbonized society and economy. They are directly taking climate actions by setting their own emissions reduction targets, establishing their own renewable energy targets, and committing to ambitious…Blockchain1 min readBlockchain1 min read
Published in Radical Collaboration and Blockchain for Climate Accounting·Jul 29, 2020Collaboration gets Radical at COP-25: Digital Solutions to Tracking Climate ActionThis story was originally published on the Data-Driven Lab blog on January 31, 2020. On the sidelines of the latest United Nations climate negotiations in Madrid (COP-25), the Data-Driven Lab in partnership with the Yale OpenLab and the Climate Chain Coalition held an event, “Radical Collaboration: Digital Solutions for Tracking…Blockchain3 min readBlockchain3 min read
Published in Radical Collaboration and Blockchain for Climate Accounting·Jul 29, 2020The Open Climate Collabathon: Results and Moving ForwardThis story was originally published on the Data-Driven Lab blog on December 10, 2019. November saw the launch of the inaugural Open Climate Collabathon, a decentralized and open-source eco-hackathon organized by Yale OpenLab and hosted by partner institutions, or nodes, all around the world. Featuring 8 nodes, 21 prompts, and…Blockchain3 min readBlockchain3 min read
Published in Radical Collaboration and Blockchain for Climate Accounting·Jul 29, 2020The Open Climate Collabathon — Singapore LaunchThis story was originally published on the Data-Driven Lab blog on November 19, 2019. November has been the month of hackathons. Two weeks after co-organizing the Yale-NUS College Datathon, which focused on the Southeast Asian haze crisis, Data-Driven Lab was at It again, this time with the launch of the…Blockchain3 min readBlockchain3 min read
Published in Radical Collaboration and Blockchain for Climate Accounting·Jul 29, 2020Workshop Summary: Blockchain & Digital Technologies for Global Climate Action Tracking and AccountingThis story was originally published on the Data-Driven Lab blog on October 25, 2019. At a roundtable meeting in New York City on September 24, Data-Driven Lab and the Yale OpenLab brought together climate experts and technology specialists from around the world to analyze how digital technologies could be leveraged…Blockchain2 min readBlockchain2 min read
Jan 17, 2020#ClimateAction in five wordsAs 2020 rolled in, Twitter users leveraged a trend of capturing #2019InFiveWords to document the urgency of climate action. The UN noted that “#ClimateChange is happening NOW,” citing the forest and bush fires that blazed around the world as one example of how “#ClimateChange drives climate disasters.” In the wake…Climate Change5 min readClimate Change5 min read
Published in Radical Collaboration and Blockchain for Climate Accounting·Oct 30, 2019Mythbusters: Blockchain for Global Climate Action TrackingThis post originally appeared on the Data-Driven Lab blog and was written by Dr. Angel Hsu, Willie Khoo, and Amy Weinfurter of Data-Driven Lab as well as Dr. …Blockchain7 min readBlockchain7 min read
