Courses

Course Objectives

By the end of this program, the participant will be able to:

• Examine the emerging digital technology and its implications on global climate change action – referring to international climate agreements and frameworks.
• Explain key blockchain affordances for climate action.
• Demonstrate through use cases the key types of Green Digital Asset Solutions and their application; Smart Grid Management and P2P Energy Trading; NFTs and Gamification; and Tokenization for climate action.
• Explain specific blockchain applications for verification, measurement, and reporting.
• Develop a blockchain for climate action strategy for their company, a country, or a hypothetical DAO (decentralized autonomous organizations) for climate action

Module 1: Course Introduction

This Module provides an overview of the critical deployments of blockchain for
climate action.

1. A Framework for Climate Action
2. Green digital asset solutions
3. Smart Grid Management
4. NFTs and Gamification
5. Tokenization of Carbon Offsets
6. Verification, measurement, and reporting
7. DAO for Climate Action

Module 2: Green Digital Asset Solutions

This Module will provide a detailed introduction to Green Digital Asset Solutions
and practical examples of use cases.

1. Carbon markets
2. Green Blockchains
3. Green tokens and green crypto
4. Green STO issuance

Module 3: Smart Grid Management and P2P Energy Trading

This Module will examine Blockchain’s implementation in smart grids in
decentralized energy markets, allowing for the P2P trade of power reliably and
transparently.

1. P2P energy trading
2. Smart grids
3. Energy marketplaces
4. Solar energy and prosumers in rural settings

Module 4: Tokenization of Carbon Credits, NFTs, and Gamification

This Module will examine how NFTs and gamification are being leveraged for
climate change with initiatives ranging from awareness-raising to fundraising
and as an immutable record for impact and carbon credits.

1. Carbon markets and tokenization of carbon credits
2. NFTs
3. Digital Art 4 Climate
4. Gamification and net zero

Module 5: Verification, Measurement and Reporting

This Module examines how Blockchain will be a critical tool for measurement
and reporting combined with AI and IoT with large-scale interconnected
databases (e.g., climate, water, land) to develop action for desertification
and deforestation and predict weather events and trends.

Module 6: DAO for Climate Action

This Module will elaborate on how Blockchain can create new digital
economies which unite and economically align people around a common
purpose. It is possible to develop economies that value climate action.

1. Introduction to DAOs
2. DAO for global commons
3. Climate case study