Climate Change


Opinion

ReFi Is Going Mainstream

The successful Ethereum Merge is just the start of a growing movement to leverage crypto rails to fight climate change.

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Tech

Ethereum Software Firm ConsenSys Co-Launches Ethereum Climate Platform

The initiative aims to address Ethereum’s excess energy consumption before it went through the Merge.

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In the Colombian Andes, Figuring Out How Crypto Can Save the Climate

Earnest eco-crypto nerds at a three-day retreat attempted to resolve interoperability among crypto-climate projects.

A hummingbird nesting in the main room for the crypto eco retreat at Tierra de Agua in Cocorna, Colombia. (Milton Giraldo, edited by CoinDesk)

Videos

Down With Greenwashing

Host Joel Flynn discusses blockchain’s role in fighting climate change. That story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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dClimate: Smart Contracts for the Warming World

dClimate’s Sid Jha, a speaker at CoinDesk’s IDEAS conference, is a decentralized marketplace for climate-related data.

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Finance

Reguladores ambientais de Nova York negam licença para usina de energia de Greenidge

A Greenidge Generation tem estado em HOT lençóis com ambientalistas pelo uso de combustíveis fósseis para alimentar sua operação de mineração de Bitcoin no Lago Seneca, em Nova York.

The Greenidge Generation facility in Dresden, New York. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

New York Environmental Regulators Deny Greenidge’s Power Plant Permit

Greenidge Generation has been in hot water with environmentalists for its use of fossil fuels to power its bitcoin mining operation on New York’s Seneca Lake.

The Greenidge Generation facility in Dresden, New York. (CoinDesk archives)

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Les régulateurs environnementaux de New York refusent le permis de la centrale électrique de Greenidge

Greenidge Generation a été en HOT avec les écologistes pour son utilisation de combustibles fossiles pour alimenter son opération minière de Bitcoin sur le lac Seneca à New York.

The Greenidge Generation facility in Dresden, New York. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Tinatanggihan ng mga Environmental Regulator ng New York ang Permit ng Power Plant ng Greenidge

Ang Greenidge Generation ay nasa HOT na tubig kasama ng mga environmentalist para sa paggamit nito ng mga fossil fuel upang mapalakas ang operasyon nito sa pagmimina ng Bitcoin sa Seneca Lake ng New York.

The Greenidge Generation facility in Dresden, New York. (CoinDesk archives)

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