Standardising Carbon Markets

Carbon markets are expected to grow from 10-20 billion USD per year to more than 200 billion USD by 2035. How can you take part in this ecosystem? How can your business benefit by incorporating blockchain solutions in a broader way?

This book will explore solutions that utilize blockchain technology and tokenization to deliver efficient, transparent, trustworthy and interoperable carbon offsetting solutions for small and medium-sized businesses and consumers. Software and hardware developers will be provided with an introduction to key players in the carbon offsetting universe and associated markets and industries globally.

Readers will learn how to:

· Outline how the technology that supports carbon markets is driving genuine climate change

· Describe the complexity and different players in the carbon offsetting ecosystem including developers of carbon-offsetting projects, infrastructure providers, buyers, and financiers

· Describe blockchain technology and its benefits to carbon markets transparency, traceability, accountability

· Provide a complex discussion on regulatory initiatives and standards that drive positive change in carbon markets, beginning with those that apply to the physical domain (e. g. , energy, agriculture), how data is collected, processed, validated and verified right up to financing/trading projects

· Analyze how blockchain will help your carbon offsets business

· Apply Web 3 technology to overcome data quality challenges in carbon markets

Target audience

This book is for project developers (those involved in reducing green house gas emissions), computer software developers working in Web 2 or Web 3 environments, others in the tech community, educated professionals, business managers and owners who are interested in buying or selling carbon credits, NGOs and Non-profits, Academic Institutions.

Chapter 1: Climate Change. - Chapter 2: Understanding Carbon Markets. - Chapter 3: Controversy to Credibility: Reforming Carbon Markets with Technology. - Chapter 4: Critical need for regulation: Integrity of voluntary carbon markets. - Chapter 5: Legal and Policy Foundations of Blockchain-Enabled Global Carbon Markets and Climate Data Systems. - Chapter 6: Blockchain Use Cases for High Integrity Carbon Markets : Addressing Double Counting, Liquidity and Transparency. - Chapter 7: The Basics of Blockchains for Carbon Markets. - Chapter 8: Carbon Tokenization. - Chapter 9: Trends in end-to-end Ecosystem Standards. - Chapter 10: The Role of Data and Technology in Carbon Projects. - Chapter 11: Climate Action Data Trust. - Chapter 12: Partnering for Project Longevity. - Chapter 13: Pricing the VCM, S& P Global case study.