
Joseph Pallant - Founder of Blockchain for Climate Foundation
About this episode
Joseph Pallant joins your favorite Klimates, Phaedrus, REG & DiamondHands to school us on all things carbon. From building the tooling required to bring the Paris Agreement and carbon markets on chain, to learning about cryptocurrencies in basements back in 2017, there's few individuals with more passion for what blockchain technology can do for the environment.
What they touch on:
(0:01) Intro
(1:01) Pre-Show Notes
(3:18) Joseph Pallant introduction
(4:15) Joseph's introduction to the crypto world
(5:00) The tools for carbon markets
(8:23) Bringing the Paris Agreement on-chain
(11:47) Wait, what is a carbon market?
(12:35) Difference between regulatory and voluntary credits
(16:44) The difficulty of obtaining a carbon credit
(18:09) Applying the carbon standards to other assets
(20:53) What are BITMO’s and how the idea came to be
(26:34) How does the ERC-1155 standard differ from ERC-721?
(32:44) Industry reaction to increasing cost of pollution
(39:53) How are BITMO’s created?
(41:42) BITMO’s and KLIMA
(44:04) Klima’s impact on the environment
(50:03) Klima and the carbon markets in 2033
(55:17) How do we get people to support the fight against climate change?
(59:44) Closing thoughts
(1:03:00) Key Takeaways
Links:
-Blockchain for Climate Foundation https://www.blockchainforclimate.org
-Ecotrust Canada https://ecotrust.ca
-Gitcoin: Blockchain for Climate Foundation https://gitcoin.co/grants/2924/put-international-carbon-markets-on-ethereum-with
-Joseph Pallant Twitter https://twitter.com/josephpallant
KlimaDAO:
-Website https://www.klimadao.finance/
-Twitter https://twitter.com/KlimaDAO
-Discord https://t.co/DHXgR0Jfie?amp=1
-YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/klimadaos
Hosts:
-Phaedrus https://twitter.com/AlphaBetaCrypt
-REG https://twitter.com/OccultDegen
-DiamondHands https://twitter.com/diamondhandsKM
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