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Oracles and blockchains – managing climate change in the energy sector

Smart Energy International

Blockchains and oracles present a path forward for the energy industry to modernise infrastructure and meet sustainability goals, a new review reports. The basic premise is that blockchains can be used as a shared backend to store data and host applications that are more secure, reliable, transparent and accessible.

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Namibia’s green hydrogen to be verified on blockchain

Smart Energy International

Decentralised climate data provider dClimate is partnering with Namibia to become a verifier for the country’s carbon impact and sustainability initiatives. dClimate claims the first transparent, decentralised network for climate data, forecasts and models. Satellite monitoring will be a key input to the verification tool. “By

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Indian blockchain startup Voltreum – new kid on the P2P block

Smart Energy International

Pune, India-based Voltreum is set to launch its Volt-X blockchain-based peer-to-peer energy trading application. The company, which has been in development over the past year, has stated its goal as addressing “two of the most critical problems affecting humankind – increasing energy demand and climate change”.

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Economic Transition Monitor: UK only large emitter on track to reach net zero

Business Green

The UK's net zero strategy may be facing growing criticism from a small band of Conservative MPs and their vocal media outriders, but the government's efforts received something of a vote of confidence today from a new report which argues that the UK is one of the only countries in the world to be on track to meet its climate goals.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

A decade of pressure on companies to report on and reduce their contribution to climate change has created something of a blueprint for investors to demand the same in terms of the separate but interconnected biodiversity crisis.

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Pinsent Mason implements DSR energy reduction solution for London HQ

Smart Energy International

Multinational law firm Pinsent Masons has introduced a demand side response (DSR) energy reduction green technology to its London headquarters to mitigate their energy usage and emissions. It will automatically reduce non-critical electrical plant and equipment such as pump motors, fans and air conditioning chillers.

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Crypto Sustainability Coalition launched

Smart Energy International

The Crypto Sustainability Coalition has been launched by the World Economic Forum to investigate web3 technology support for climate change. Crypto mining and data centres – the green challenge How the energy industry can take the lead on making the digital world more sustainable. Crypto impacts in US.