Project Plan - Documentation and Use Cases for Climate Action

Abstract

Interview stakeholders and draft use case for a white paper on how to improve voluntary carbon offsets market transparency with blockchain.

Mentor and Mentee

Mentor	Mentor	Mentee	Mentee

Mentor

Mentee

Si Chen

US PST

sichen@opensourcestrategies.com

Sherwood Moore

US PST

woodymo@gmail.com

Dounia Marbouh

GST

marbdounia@gmail.com

Kris Stern

HKT

kasternhk@gmail.com

Communication channel: Email and Github

Deliverables

1 Start white paper with background on voluntary carbon offsets market in the context of the ecosystem mapping, with citations of existing literature.

2 Interviews with stakeholders of the ecosystem

3 Architecture for voluntary carbon offsets directory directory based on interviews, ecosystem mapping, and other discoveries

4 Paper covering the voluntary carbon offsets directory

Milestones

Eval 1:

a Initial draft of white paper including background and ecosystem mapping.

b First interviews conducted.

Eval 2:

c Additional stakeholder interviews conducted.

d Analysis of offsets market data.

Eval 3:

e.

f.

Eval 4:

g.

h.

Timeline

Week	Task/Plan	Status

Week	Task/Plan	Status
May 24 - May 28	Initial project plan. Reference materials.	Done.
May 31 - June 11	First draft of white paper and interview request template.	Done
June 14 - June 25	Finish ecosystem mapping. Draft list of questions. Set up online questionnaire. Begin outreach for interviews.	Done
June 28 - July 2	Conduct initial interviews.	Done
July 5 - July 9	Eval 1
July 12 - July 23	Conduct interviews.	Done
July 26 - August 6	Conduct initial interviews.	Done
August 9 - August 13	Conduct initial interviews.	Done
August 16 - August 27	Eval 2
August 30 - Sept 3	Conduct initial interviews.	Done
Sept 6 - Sept 17	Consolidate results of detailed interviews into spreadsheet of stakeholder interviews - @Dounia Marbouh Summarize World Bank Meta Registry video - @Dounia Marbouh JCM Mitsubishi Interview - @Kris Stern Notes from Novaa interview - @Woody Moore Check on TSVCM participation - @Woody Moore Follow up for additional interviews - @Si Chen Update online questionnaire for market participants - @Dounia Marbouh Offsetter.io interview - @Dounia Marbouh	Done
Sept 20 - 24	Continue stakeholders interviews Analyze interviews for patterns	Done
Sept 27 - Oct 1	Finish all stakeholders interviews Patterns of stakeholders interviews Eval 3	Done
Oct 4 - Oct 15	Start writing paper	Done
Oct 18 - Oct 29	Finish final draft of paper before commentary	Done
Nov 1 - Nov 5	Officially release paper for public commentary Send to interviewees for comments, get confirmation they are	Done
Nov 8 - Nov 12	Eval 4 Final evaluation and presentation of project Submit paper for publication

Tasks

GitHub Issue List

Explanation

Explanation of the project goes here.

Methodology

Methodology followed is here.