CA2 SIG - Meeting March 09

CA2 SIG - Meeting March 09

 

Recording:

 

Time:

  • Tuesday, March 09, 2021 at 8 AM Pacific

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Meeting Agenda 

    • Co-Chair nomination process

      • The new chairs of the CA2 SIG agreed on having 1 chair and to co-chairs

      • @Robin Klemens takes the chair, @Woody Moore and @Peter Clarke take the co-chairs

      • Special thanks to @Martin Wainstein and @Tom Baumann for leading the SIG for the last year as well to @David Boswell for all of his support

    • CA2 SIG landing page

      • Added a new section "How to get involved" with contribution opportunities for technical and non-technical members  

      • Suggestions from Martin to highlight the "How to get involved" button → Sherwood will take a look at it

      • Sherwood will share the Mozilla - Participation Worksheet with the group. He will ask for someone leading a project to volunteer to fill out the form with him

    • Hyperledger Global Forum opportunities for climate presentations

    • Hyperledger Summer Internship Project

      •  Asking community members to submit project ideas: Mentorship Projects

      • @Si Chenlooking to mentor

    • World Bank Innovate4Climate

    • Carbon offset/saving project in India

      • @kamlesh nagware presented a project that aims to offset carbon by recycling and reusing plastic

      • A question raised by Si Chen: How to monetize the issuing of carbon offsets? 

      • Research: Who wants to monetize carbon offsets that we can work with?

    • Generic Desing of carbon accounting system

      • GHG accounting is a special case

      • @Christiaan Pauw suggested designing a generic accounting system that can be used with comparable metric across SDG

    • Standards and carbon offsetting

      • What standards do apply to the election of carbon offsetting projects?

      • Christiaan will reach out to Si Chen and talk about how to leverage standards into this

    • Collaboration opportunities between LF Energy, OS-Climate, Hyperledger, TOIP

      • Martin started with a project proposal. Martin will have more to share during the Peer Programming Call next Monday

      • Martin is in contact with Truman Semans of OS-Climate

      • Peter C is in contact with Hewson Batzell of OS-Climate about ESG standards. 

    • Open Climate Collabathon

      • Will take place in October prior to COP26

      • How do we explore how to generate funds to support a DAO?

      • Opportunity to use earth day as an opportunity to build awareness for this