Hyperledger Climate Action & Accounting Special Interest Group (CA2SIG) Q1 2021
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- Bi-weekly calls have consistency, and we have a max group of around 10 recurring and 3-15 additional but frequently changing participants that give continuity to dialogues. The number of attendees has gone up a bit (3-5 attendees) since last year. At least one chair is always present in meeting to give continuity as well.
- New Member Introductions feature in every call is working well. We receive new members frequently. However, we don't necessarily get first timers to continue showing up.
- Working groups have significantly ramped up interesting conversations and get diverse members engaged. Some are working towards MVP developments, which will lead to more interest.
- This year, members of the CA2SIG participated in a collaborative planning exercise to establish the CA2SIG 2021 Goals and Action Plan. The SIG identified several key objectives for the year, these include:
- Develop more use cases
- Develop more proofs of concept
- Facilitate the development of Standards
- Grow membership and build capacity of the CA2SIG
- Build awareness about climate accounting and establish CA2SIG thought leadership around it
- Build Coalitions
- Ecosystem / Value-chain mapping
- Explore how to develop a data commons
- Carbon Accounting and Certification Working Group successfully launched their Hyperledger Fabric network. The network is part of the first layer of the Operating System for Climate Action which is the foundation of trust of all climate action. The network consists of one channel (utilityemissionschannel) and the utilityemissions chaincode is deployed. In the next step, Si Chen and his team will connect the openseas app to the network. Then we will all be able to calculate the carbon emissions of our utility bills and store the data immutably on the blockchain.
- The group has come up with 4 mentorship projects as part of the Hyperledger Mentorship Program that started in June
- The group has come up with 3 blog posts
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- Carbon neutrality certificate concept and MVP
- Climate standards mapping exercise
- Consumer disclosure MVP, connecting supply chains with carbon data for accounting
- Active node in a climate accounting collaborative hackathon this November.
- Publish a technical paper about Voluntary Carbon Offsets Directory
- Kick-off a project for Blockchain-enabled CSR reporting