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Climate change represents presents an existential threat to humanity and will requires require the greatest mobilization of resources and collaboration in human history to meet this threat. In this effort, the Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group (CA2SIG) is focused on supporting the development of an open global climate accounting system to support stakeholders' efforts to manage our single planetary carbon budget and help achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement (the United Nation's global climate accord). To accomplish this, the CA2 SIG is fostering a collaborative network of stakeholders to explore how to use digital technologies such as blockchain DLT, open source software, AI, IOT, Big Data, machine learning, etc. to create a transparent climate accounting system that is capable of balancing global climate emissions against global climate actions in order to achieve a net-zero carbon future.
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Hyperledger, as part of the Linux Foundation, is an open source community and anyone who is interested is welcome to contribute to projects, share expertise, or engage with the group to learn about the emerging climate accounting ecosystem. See the contributions opportunities we have for everybody!
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Mission and Goals
Our mission is to bring stakeholders together to look at climate related use cases, technologies, frameworks and partnerships needed to build a global and open climate accounting system to support stakeholders' efforts to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement (the United Nation's global climate accord) and to support implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), among various initiatives. The SIG encompasses the wide array of climate actions, for example GHG management and mitigation, resilience and adaptation to climate impacts, and climate finance, including also for various types of applications (e.g. facilities, supply chains, communities, technologies, etc.).
The CA2SIG is fostering To foster a collaborative network of climate, DLT, and other emerging technology organizations (i.e. universities, NGOs, government, startups, corporations, multilateral development banks, etc.) that can create a center of gravity around the role of DLT and open source software to address challenges in the global climate action, policy and digital accounting space. A focus point of the SIG would be to turn this network into action under a common open source project that defines shared protocols, standards, and platform tools for a globally integrated climate accounting system to be operationalized. This open climate project can act as a shared initiative where participants can contribute value to and share explorations in the use of DLT alongside other emerging technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things), big data, and machine learning to address the challenge of keeping a transparent climate accounting system towards the climate targets set in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
The community will take initiative to specifically address:
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The scope of the SIG is defined by the terms climate action and climate accounting.
Climate Action is a broadly encompassing term that involves all climate-relevant actions (e.g. policies, programs, technologies, goods, high rise window cleaning services…) taken by actors (e.g. states and non-state actors such as businesses, cities, individuals…) — from emission generating activities, to the broad set of actions encompassed within climate mitigation and adaptation and its associated finance mechanisms.
Climate Accounting, on the other hand, is referred to here as the encompassing term that involves all processes of recording climate-relevant information/data — from the physical state of the planet to the list of all climate actors, their broad set of climate actions and agreements in respect to the shared account of the climate challenge.
Whilst climate action occurs in the real world, climate accounting is recorded in the digital world.
This SIG will help build the relationship between both and consolidate technological tools to do so.
How to Get Involved
This is open source special interest group is open to anyone that is interested in contributing. Below we’ve provided some recommendations to help you get started.
- Sign-in and sign-up
- Get up-to-speed
- Contribute as a non-technical member
- Contribute as a technical member/developer
Recent Climate SIG Content
Blog Post #RadicalCollaboration | Hyperledger CA2 SIG leading a working group at Open Climate Collabathon
Meetings
All Hyperledger meetings are run covered by the following Antitrust Policy.
For meeting agendas, notes and recordings, select specific meeting pages in the navigation.
Proposed Calendar of Events
As newly launched, the Climate Action & Accounting (CA2) SIG is currently drafting its yearly plan of activities and meetings.
Communication Channels
These are the mechanisms that this working group uses to communicate:
Mailing List
- You can post to the list by emailing climate-sig@lists.hyperledger.org
- Subscribe to the list to receive emails
- Archives contain past list messages
Chat Channel
Talk to people in the group on Hyperledger's chat server at:
Recent Climate SIG Content
Blog Post Tackling Energy Security and Climate Change with Open Source and Blockchain
Blog Post Climate Change Action: Five Ways to Get Involved in Our Global Climate Accounting Efforts
Blog Post Help Us Scale Up Our Operating System for Climate Action#climate-action-sig
Meetings
There are also regular community calls that you can dial-in to. See the Meetings information to your left for more details.
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