CA2 SIG - Meeting March 09

Recording:

Time:

• Tuesday, March 09, 2021 at 8 AM Pacific
• Add Climate Action and Accounting SIG calls to your calendar   

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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
    • Global Forum call for proposals: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/hyperledger-global-forum/program/cfp/ 
    • Deadline: Friday, March 12, 2021 at 11:59 PM PST
    • Martin: Submitting climate accounting speaking opportunity with Hyperledger        
  • Hyperledger Summer Internship Project
    •  Asking community members to submit project ideas: Mentorship Projects
    • Si Chenlooking to mentor
  • World Bank Innovate4Climate
    • will be virtual this year, and free from May 25-27th
    • If you are interested in applying to run a workshop, please apply on the website (by March 14)
    • sign up for updates: https://innovate4climate.pathable.co/workshops 
  • 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