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Hayley Moller
The nexus of voluntary carbon markets & blockchain: what you need to know
Increasing interest in effective global climate action in recent years has brought the voluntary carbon market to the fore. At its base, the voluntary carbon market is a mechanism to try and bring negative externalities - namely, the release of carbon emissions into the atmosphere - into the global market. But with all the new attention on the carbon market space, many of its challenges have come to light. To solve some of these problems, one unlikely group has begun to step forward: blockchain entrepreneurs.
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