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Meeting Notes 

  • Updates / needs from CA2SIG Working Groups
    • Carbon Accounting WG
      • Good progress with mentorship programs (especially Cactus mentorship)
      • A demo of the offline signing of transactions with the Hyperledger Fabric SDK will be given in the next Peer Programm Call on Monday, July 05
    • Standards WG
      • Christiaan Pauw reaches out to Interwork Alliance to explore opportunities for collaboration
      • The landing page of the wiki of the Standards WG will be updated with a link to the most recent work
    • Climate Research WG 
      • Voluntary Carbon Offsets Directory Research Project Update - Can SIG members help us with outreach?
        • Next step: Interview stakeholders
          • Issuer and carbon offset project developer
          • standard bodies (e.g. Gold Standard, VERRA, etc.)
          • Brokers
          • End-User (Major corporations)
        • The group is looking for more participation
        • Currently working on a peer-review paper. Help is needed and wanted. Everyone involved will be listed as an active contributor to the paper
  • Leanne Ussherpresented a project she is currently working on with students. The goal is to build an App that enables personal carbon accounting with features like a barcode scanner that calculates the carbon footprint of a product (e.g banana) and accounts for the emission into a personal carbon budget
  • Open discussion: How can blockchain help companies with better CSR goal reporting? -a question that came up at the Hyperledger Global Forum
    • Use blockchain to cover all SDG (general purpose vs. carbon only)
    • Sherwood Moore and Robin Klemens want to build a business case for blockchain-enabled CSR reporting and create a project page on the wiki
      • Hypothesis: A blockchain-based system for CSR reporting allows corporations to save money and increases corporations attractiveness to their customers (soft facts) 
    • Alex Arujoffered to provide some information about CSR reporting (e.g. power usage for data centers)
  • Open discussion: diversity and inclusion project.