Sometimes the most important news gets the least attention. Yesterday, to little fanfare, IHSMarkit, a financial data company, announced it would introduce a global registry for carbon credits using distributed ledger technology. It would link various registries around the world and provide a single data set for all projects and credits. Why is this so […]
Hardly a day goes by without major news about climate risk and how companies are responding to it. Amid this onslaught it can be hard to spot what’s truly significant. In just the past week, a group of investors sounded the alarm about the financial risks of climate change, Microsoft’s billion-dollar climate innovation fund joined […]
Democratic victories in last week’s elections have given new life to efforts to combat climate change through cap-and-trade systems. Advances in distributed ledger technology could kick them into high gear.