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Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains
- 1st Edition - June 21, 2018
- Editor: Alastair Marke
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 4 4 7 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 4 4 8 - 0
Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains establishes and analyzes the connection between this revolutionary technology and global efforts to combat cl… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTransforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains establishes and analyzes the connection between this revolutionary technology and global efforts to combat climate change. The benefits of blockchain come through various profound alterations, such as the adoption of smart contracts that are set to redefine governance and regulatory structures and transaction systems in coming decades. Each chapter contains a problem statement that describes the challenges blockchain technology can address. The book brings together original visions and insights from global members of the Blockchain Climate Institute, comprising thought leaders, financial professionals, international development practitioners, technology entrepreneurs, and more.
This book will help readers understand blockchain technology and how it can facilitate the implementation of the Paris Agreement and accelerate the global transition to a green economy.
- Provides an authoritative examination of this emerging digital technology and its implications on global climate change governance
- Includes detailed proposals and thorough discussions of implementation issues that are specific to green economy sectors
- Relates innovative proposals to existing applications to demonstrate the value add of blockchain technology
- Covers blockchain for the smarter energy sector, for fraud-free emissions management, to streamline climate investments, and legal frameworks for blockchain-based climate finance
Policy-makers; professionals working on climate change, energy, finance, and international development issues; fintech investors and practitioners; scholars and upper-division undergraduates and graduate students in these areas
Interlude I: How to Read This Book
Section 1: Scene-Setting - What’s Going On?
1: A Conversation with Dr. Kelce Wilson on the Foundations of the Blockchain
Jack Aldane
2: A Conversation with Masterminds in Blockchain and Climate Change
Alexander Harris
3: Blockchain 101: What is Blockchain and How Does This Revolutionary Technology Work?
Sebastien Meunier
4: Decoding the Current Global Climate Finance Architecture
Alastair Marke and Bianca Sylvester
Interlude II
Section 2: Blockchain for Smarter Renewable Energy Deployment
5: How Blockchain can Democratize Global Energy Supply
Adam Woodhall
6: How Blockchains Will Industrialize a Renewable Grid
Paul R. Brody
7: Efficient Power Markets: Reimagining the Global Market with Ethereum
Adam Richard and Rob Hitchens
8: Flexibility Trading Platform—Using Blockchain to Create the Most Efficient Demand-side Response Trading Market
Paul Ellis and Joanna Hubbard
9: NRGcoin—A Blockchain-based Reward Mechanism for Both Production and Consumption of Renewable Energy
Mihail Mihaylov, Iva´n Razo-Zapata and Ann Nowe´
Interlude III
Section 3: Blockchain for Smoother International Climate Finance Transfers 135
10: Blockchain—Powering and Empowering the Poor in Developing Countries
Jane Thomason, Mira Ahmad, Pascale Bronder, Edward Hoyt, Steven Pocock, Julien Bouteloupe, Katrina Donaghy, David Huysman, Tony Willenberg, Ben Joakim, Loretta Joseph, David Martin and David Shrier
11: Disintermediating the Green Climate Fund
Tim Reutemann
12: COCOA—Crowd Collaboration for Climate Adaptation
Gustavo Arciniegas, Iva´n Razo-Zapata and Cristia´n Retamal Gonza´lez
13: Using Smart Algorithms, Machine Learning, and Blockchain Technology to Streamline and Accelerate Dealflow in Climate Finance
Neil Salisbury and Jenya Khvatsky
14: Addressing Water Sustainability with Blockchain Technology and Green Finance
Anna Poberezhna
Interlude IV
Section 4: Blockchain for Fraud-Free Emissions Management
15: Central Banks and Blockchains: The Case for Managing Climate Risk with a Positive Carbon Price
Delton B. Chen
16: Carbon Deposits—Using Soil and Blockchains to Achieve Net-Zero Emissions
Edward Dodge
17: Blockchain Ecosystem for Carbon Markets, Environmental Assets, Rights, and Liabilities: Concept Design and Implementation
Anton Galenovich, Sergey Lonshakov and Alexey Shadrin
18: How a Blockchain Network Can Ensure Compliance with Clean Development Mechanism Methodology and Reduce Uncertainty about Achieving Intended Nationally Determined Contributions
Steven Dunkel
19: Networked Carbon Markets: Permissionless Innovation with Distributed Ledgers?
Adrian Jackson, Ashley Lloyd, Justin Macinante and Markus Hu¨wener
Interlude V
Section 5: Blockchain for Better Green Finance Law Enforcement
20: How to Trust Green Bonds: Blockchain, Climate, and the Institutional Bond Markets
Owen Sanderson
21: Utilizing Blockchain for Better Enforcement of Green Finance Law and Regulations
Xiaochen Zhang, Matias Aranguiz, Duoqi Xu, Xing Zhang and Xinran Xu
22: Blockchain and Smart Contracts: Complementing Climate Finance, Legislative Frameworks, and Renewable Energy Projects
James Duchenne
- No. of pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 21, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128144473
- eBook ISBN: 9780128144480
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Alastair Marke
Alastair Marke is currently a senior climate finance consultant with a listed company in London. He is a seasoned sustainability policy researcher with publications covering a wide range of policy issues, including food and energy security, climate finance, low-carbon investment planning, emissions trading, and associated green growth issues in Europe, Africa, China, Southeast Asia and Australasia. Seeing the dire need to accelerate global efforts to fill the current climate finance gap, on top of his consultancy work, Alastair has recently created the International Core Group on Blockchain Climate Finance, composed of over 40 experts from 20 countries, to study the potential of Blockchain technology to upscale sustainable, environmental and climate finance for developing countries, encompassing energy finance, carbon trading, and new cryptocurrency-based multi-level climate finance transfer mechanisms.
Affiliations and expertise
Fellow, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA)Read Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains on ScienceDirect