Transforming Climate Finance and Green Investment with Blockchains

Abstract

Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors -- Managing Editor -- Associate Editors -- About the Lead Contributors -- Guest Foreword -- Guest Biography -- Editor's Prologue: Blockchain Movement for Global Climate Actions -- Interlude I: How to Read This Book -- How to Read This Book -- Section 1: Scene-Setting - What's Going On? -- Chapter 1. A Conversation with Dr. Kelce Wilson on the Foundations of the Blockchain -- Abstract -- Chapter 2. A Conversation with Masterminds in Blockchain and Climate Change -- Abstract -- 2.1 Unleashing the Potential of Blockchain in Addressing Climate Change -- 2.2 Blockchain's Role in Peer-to-peer Energy Trading -- 2.3 Closing the Private Finance Gap -- 2.4 Restoring Faith in Climate Negotiations -- 2.5 Finance 4.0.-Incentivizing a Sharing Economy -- 2.6 The Future of Blockchain -- References -- Chapter 3. Blockchain 101: What is Blockchain and How Does This Revolutionary Technology Work? -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction to Distributed Ledgers -- 3.2 Examples of Distributed Ledgers -- 3.3 The Four Main Use Cases of Distributed Ledgers -- 3.4 Challenges and Road Ahead -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Decoding the Current Global Climate Finance Architecture -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Scale of Climate Investment Required -- 4.3 The State of Climate Finance Post-Paris Agreement -- 4.4 Climate Finance Market Observations -- 4.5 Barriers for Unlocking Climate Finance -- 4.6 Current Climate Finance Instruments to Bridge the "Gap" -- 4.7 Problems with Climate Finance Tracking -- 4.8 Blockchain-The Trust Machine -- References -- Interlude II -- Section 2: Blockchain for Smarter Renewable Energy Deployment -- Section 2. Blockchain for Smarter Renewable Energy Deployment -- Chapter 5. How Blockchain can Democratize Global Energy Supply -- Abstract