An initial prototype based on data from the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project is live at https://offsets.opentaps.org, and the code is available on github.
Carbon offsets are claims of activities which reduce carbon emissions, such as investments in renewable energy generation, improved forestry and land management, circular economy and reuse, and carbon capture and sequestration. Carbon offsets are either part of mandatory schemes, such as the European Emissions Trading Allowance, industry schemes, such as CORSIA, and voluntary purchases by primarily corporate buyers and some individuals.
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An incentive structure for contributions similar to the Multiple Listing Service for residential real estate would be based on:
- Upgraded usage of data from the directory to the contributions. A verification process would be set up to validate the data from the participants. For example, members could challenge listings and trades. The challenged member would then need to prove them to a neutral DAO panel. If the challenge is successful, the failing party would lose reputation tokens; if the challenge fails, the challenging party would lose reputation tokens. Eventually if party has too few tokens it loses access to the directory.
- Public listing of offsets purchased by end user organizations looking to prove their purchases.
- Published leader boards of top dealers and purchasers, which would help their reputations.
- Listing service for sale of future offsets.
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