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The goal of these open-sourced insights is to improve our web3 community’s ability to make sense of web3 applications for authentic climate impact — and, in doing so, drive better investment decisions.

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Ecosystem Players

Projects demonstrated below not exhaustive.

• Alex Filotimo to add in a long list of companies interviewed for an X-Prize competition
• Companies like TreeSwift are using drones, LIDAR and computer vision to better measure forestry biomass and carbon sequestration, and could potentially evolve to measure more complex biodiversity data as well.
• Gaia equips foresters with tools to measure carbon data

Eclectic Notes

• Feel free to add interim comments here instead of formatting them into the below categories.

Background reading

Please add any exceptional introductory articles, in-depth reports, or other content that would help someone understand this space.

• Kristin McDonald at Eniac breakdown wrote this report on the developing industry — it summarizes the problem space and role of ecosystem services in this nascent market.

Industry Summary

Investment Insights

• General notes and reasons
• Open questions
• Caution or areas for greenwashing
• Request for Startups (/opportunities for promising research):