A short guide to sustainability focused projects on Hedera
This article is not a comprehensive “sustainability for beginners” guide. It’s more of a very brief (as possible) first step towards a guide for ecosystem-developers who wants to particpate in sustainability markets on Hedera. Since this area is growing at a pretty crazy pace the information below is likely to go out of date relatively quickly. We'll try to keep it up to date via pull-requests and issues. And I hope the platforms themselves will add relevant information, “Statement of Values”, and roadmaps to their own site speaking to auditability around high quality carbon offsets/REC's.
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A deeper glossary of industry terms can be found here
These are the application that you would use to work with them to develop, ‘mint’ and sell your carbon credits following the IWA Standards. We encourage applications committed to sustainability and offsetting on Hedera to submit a pull request and sign up as a deamnd platform below. For those who'd like
RECDeFi - Carbon Credit, REC, Commodities Issuance Platform & Marketplace
- recdefi.com
- Primary Goal: Digital MRV (REC)/Automated Market
- Open Source MRV Protocol
- Major Partnerships: TBA
- Summary: RECDeFi is an automated, decentralized, and scalable marketplace that accelerates investment in clean energy and climate solutions by making it faster, cheaper, and easier to trade renewable energy credits, carbon offsets, and other environmental commodities. RECDeFi provides time-stamped asset-linked digital renewable energy credits that enable buyers to match electricity consumption with renewable energy generation on a 24/7 basis to reduce carbon emissions associated with energy use.
Dovu - Carbon Offsets Issuance Platform & Marketplace
- dovu.earth
- Primary Goal: Digital MRV (Offsets)/DeFi Market (Unibar) (by Matt Smithies, also of SportsIcon & Tapmydata)
- Major Partnerships: Jaguar Landrover, Creative England (a fund backed by the UK Government)
- Proof of Carbon on Hedera
- Website
- Primary Goal:
- Major Partnerships:
- Estimated Demand:
- Website
- Primary Goal:
- Major Partnerships:
- List your application & CET Token ID + Offset Source.
The information in this document is a collective effort from many people including:
Sergey Metelin, Ken Anderson, Wes Geisenberger, all the builders in the Hedera sustinability community, and many more.
Please submit a pull-request or issue if you would like to make any changes or have any comments.
Pull requests:
- Small and atomic (i.e. each pull request should be a change to one location, and in a separate branch if need be)
- Please don’t send pull-requests which change whitespace or line-endings etc