Blockchain and fairness in the VCM: Customer-Centric Fairness: Unraveling Blockchain's Potential in Voluntary Carbon Trading

Carbon trading sets a price on greenhouse gases (GHG), enabling countries and companies to buy emission rights. The carbon market includes the compliant market, regulated by governments, and the voluntary carbon market (VCM), which lacks strict regulation and allows anyone to offset emissions. In the VCM, carbon credits are created through...

Carbon Credit Incentives for Agroforestry: A Feasibility Study for Smallholder Farmers in Ghana's Ashanti Region

Climate change is a pressing concern affecting the livelihoods of farmers in Ghana's Ashanti region due to erratic rainfall patterns, primarily impacting rain-fed agriculture. This research explores the potential of carbon credits to encourage smallholder farmers in the Ashanti region to adopt agroforestry practices as a solution. Agroforestry,...

Untangling the Wild West: Exploring the applicability of blockchain-based applications to prevent double counting in the voluntary carbon by developing a multi-level governance blockchain evaluation framework

The modern world is under great pressure to fight climate change and limit global temperature rises to a sustainable level. As part of new mitigation strategies, the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) emerged after the compliance markets materialized. Via the voluntary carbon market companies can offset their carbon emissions. The captured carbon is...