CA2 SIG - Meeting June 29

Planned:

• Welcome new members, including new member introductions
• Updates / needs from CA2SIG Working Groups
  • Consumer Disclosure WG
  • Carbon Accounting WG
  • Standards WG
  • Climate Research WG 
    • Voluntary Carbon Offsets Directory Research Project Update - Can SIG members help us with outreach?
• Open discussion: How can blockchain help companies with better CSR goal reporting? -a question that came up at the Hyperledger Global Forum
• Open discussion: diversity and inclusion project.
• Break-out rooms (time and interest permitting)

Recording: 20210629 CASIG Call Recording

Time:

• Tuesday, June 29, 2021, at 8 AM Pacific
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Dial-In Information:  [ZOOM]

You can join either from your computer or from your phone:

• From computer: https://zoom.us/j/4034983298?pwd=STZQd0xMZU9xRVVOVnpQM3JNQ2dqZz09
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• Meeting ID: 403 498 3298

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
• lussherpresented 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)
  • Woody 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 Aroffered to provide some information about CSR reporting (e.g. power usage for data centers)
• Open discussion: diversity and inclusion project.