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The Voluntary Carbon Offsets Directory Research Project seeks to support recommendation 12 by creating a trusted and open directory blockchain directory to provide transparency around  the voluntary carbon market data. Transparency is however just the first step. The Governance Research Project for Carbon Offsets Directory will see to explore a governance structure that can be used to help stakeholders self-regulate the marketplace. 

Current Ecosystem

Challenges

Proposed Solution

References

To accomplish this, this project will seek the advice of experts and examples of governance structures, including DAO governance, that may be used to develop this new governance structure. 

Ecosystem

Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets Publishes Roadmap for Strengthening Market Integrity

Challenges

Proposed Solution

Resources

• Guides
  • "Producing Open Source Software": For resources about governance in open source communities, see sections about social and political infrastructure that could be worth checking out.
  • "Understanding Open Governance Networks": Linux Foundation

• Real World Models
  • ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
    • "ICANN and Internet Governance: Leveraging Technical Coordination to Realize Global Public Policy"

    • ICANN, the ITU and WSIS and Internet Governance 

  • StackOverflow

  • Wikipedia

• Governance Experts To Engage

Other

This project is part of the Documentation and Use Cases for Climate Action mentorship.  For updates on this project, see the Project Plan - Documentation and Use Cases for Climate Action.

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