CA2 SIG - Meeting December 14

Planned:

• Welcome new members, including new member introductions

  • Click here to learn - How to Contribute

• Updates on Current and Emerging Projects

  • Update from Climate Research WG: The Completion of the Carbon Credit Research Paper/Work to Publish

  • Update on Operating System for Climate Action Project

  • Update on Transportation Emissions Project

  • Updates from Standards WG: Christiaan, Alex

  • Introduction to Supply Chain Emissions Ledger Project

  • Introduction to CSR Reporting: Market Research Project

  • CA2SIG Presentation at Blockchance Europe Conference - reaction from people at the conference & lessons learned

  • Governance Research for Climate Action: Upcoming Speakers – MOBI

  • Other projects/plans?

If time is permitting, we will also Review our 2021 Goals and our performance to meet them. If not, we will kick off the new year revisiting old goals and discussing new ones!

*The next meeting will be held on 11 January. Our 21 December meeting will be canceled due to the holidays.

Recording:

Time:

• Tuesday, December 14th, 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

• From phone: +1(855)880-1246 (toll free US number) or view International numbers

• Meeting ID: 403 498 3298

Meeting Notes

Attendees:  12

Climate Research WG:

• Voluntary Carbon Credit Market research project completed

• Interviewed standard organizations, buyer, project developers, government, agencies

• Many different project

• Many people aim to tokenize carbon token to trade them on the exchanges

• Hurdles: Quality of the Carbon Credits and price of creating them

• Should the paper be published at a conference? How can Hyperledger support? Or publish the paper in a journal?

Operating System for Climate Action Project:

• Related to Supply Chain & Transportation Emission project

• Early this year:

  • Fabric Channel for trading data

  • Ethereum network for issuing tokens for trading

  • DAO for voting on the different criteria of carbon offsets (certify them)

  • → PoC on a small scale

• Mid-year

  • Two mentorship programs (Pritam and Bertrand)

  • technical improvements on application security and integration of the different tools

• Currently

  • Expand project to full scope emission (1,2, and 3)

• next steps

  • Transportation Emissions Project

  • Blockchain network to record different trips, flights, transports

  • DAO to validate different transportation emission claims

  • Mobile app to track personal movements and record emissions into blockchain

Standards WG:

• Bi-weekly calls starting from the end of April

• Analyzed existing carbon emission calculation tools

• Discussed differences between climate account vs other forms of accounting

• Climate Accounting as a sub-from of SDG accounting

• Developed a climate accounting ontology

• https://github.com/aartum/CA2-SIG-StandardsWG

Supply Chain Emissions Ledger Project:

• In addition to notes in Operating System for Climate Action

• Focus on Hydrocarbon

  • Quantify GHG emissions of hydrocarbon fuel production

  • Quantify the leakage and spoilage of Hydrocarbon

CSR Reporting:

• Interviewed almost 20 people

• Results will be published next year

• A google form will be created to reach more people and get more insights
  
  

CA2SIG Presentation at Blockchance Europe 2021

• Feedback at Blockchance was great

• People are very interested in the topic of global climate accounting

• Slides are linked in the resource section

MOBI:

• a consortium of almost all car manufactures and the major supply chain partners

• They will present at the beginning of next year (prob. February)