Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains

Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains establishes and analyzes the connection between this new technology and global efforts to combat climate change. Realizing the benefits of blockchain can only come through a variety of alterations: the adoption of smart contracts, for instance, changes in governance and regulatory structures, and global agreements on privacy issues. Each chapter contains a problem statement that describes the challenges blockchain technology can address. The first book of its kind, Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains brings together original insights and opinions from experienced practitioners on a diverse range of practically relevant issues, helping readers understand blockchain technology and how it can accelerate the green economy. Provides an authoritative examination of this emerging technology and its potential benefits for the green economyIncludes detailed proposals and thorough discussions of implementation issuesRelates new proposals to existing applications to demonstrate the value add of blockchain technology INDICE: I. Scene-Setting 1. A conversation with blockchain masterminds 2. Decoding the current 'wild west' in global climate finance 3. What is blockchain? How does it work? II. Blockchain for a Smarter Energy Sector 4. Demystifying blockchain for democratising global energy supply 5. Basics of blockchain and climate finance: Powering a much smarter grid 6. Flexibility trading platform: Using blockchain to create the most efficient demand-side response trading market 7. Solar Coin: A forty-year global energy reward programme 8. NRGcoin: A blockchain-based support policy for renewables III. Blockchain for Fraud-Free Emissions Trading 9. Why we are at the cusp of a philosophical and economic revolution for managing existential climate risk: The myth of social cost of carbon 10. A new model for carbon pricing with blockchain technology: A carbon deposit and redemption system using distributed ledgers 11. How a blockchain network can ensure compliance with Clean Development Mechanism methodology and reduce uncertainty in achieving (Intended) Nationally Determined Contributions IV. Blockchain to Streamline Climate Investment 12. Using smart algorithms, machine learning and blockchain technology to streamline global climate finance flow: Clean technology transfer 13. Blockchain - Powering and Empowering the Poor 14. Crowd Collaboration for Climate Adaptation (COCOA): providing an open and transparent platform to support local climate adaptation actions 15. How to trust green bonds: Blockchain, climate, and the institutional bond markets Owen Sanderson, Financial Journalist & Market Editor, Global Capital V. The Legal Frameworks for Blockchain-based Climate Finance 16. Utilizing blockchain to mobilize and leverage climate finance: How new legal frameworks could help unlock private capital at scale 17. Blockchain and smart contracts: Complementing regulatory frameworks for climate finance, compliance and energy

• ISBN: 9780128144473
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés