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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.
- 🌊 Sea Sweepers is a one-year old Miami startup launching its MVP to track the origin of plastic products.
- 🌊 Plasticoin, a startup offering rewards for plastic collected from beaches, partnered with the Uruguayan government.
- ♻️ Plastic Bank, a startup using tokenized rewards to create a plastic offset market, partnered with Metro and the America Banknote Corporation to offset >1.3M kilograms of plastic waste.
- 🌊 Keep Sea Blue created a blockchain solution to track the ocean plastic waste volunteers collect. The protocol, developed by Oracle, improves incentives for volunteers to collect plastic both by showing outcomes of their work and by creating opportunities for corporations to pay volunteers as a form of plastic “offsets.”
- The team at Plastiks.io have built the first NFT marketplace that fights plastic pollution—and they've won Gold Prize at Celo Camp 2022 which earned them. 10,000 cUSD and 2,000 CELO.
- NAME and why/their progress
Eclectic Notes
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Background reading
Industry Summary
Investment Insights
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- Open questions
- Caution or areas for greenwashing
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- Alex Filotimo is a web3 and climate researcher who supports the Aera Force climate investing movement in his spare time.