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As of July 2021, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rose 22% over the previous year. High levels of deforestation across the entire Amazon region are bringing the rainforest to a tipping point, with a potentially devastating effect on biodiversity, Indigenous livelihoods, climate change, and global water cycles. The cause of deforestation in the Amazon is […]

In this Regen Network Review, discover one of the blockchain projects that empowers farmers to become soil regeneration stewards.

Opinion: Trading carbon credits may carry downsides for farmers >More in © Vander Wolf Images/Adobe Stock Carbon farming, or the sequestration of carbon in agricultural soils and the subsequent sale of “carbon credits”, has hit the headlines with the recent high-profile sale of A$500,000 (£280,000) of credits by the Wilmot Cattle Company of New South Wales, Australia, to US software giant Microsoft. The deal was brokered by Regen N...

Sothebys second NFT auction presents first ever minted NFT from 2014, rare Cryptopunk & more Kevin McCoy, Quantum. Courtesy Sothebys. NEW YORK, NY .-Sotheby’s announced Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale, representing the first time a major auction house will bring together a group survey of the leading NFT artists to auction. Hosted directly through Sotheby’s online auction platform, Natively Digital will feature some of the most sought after works made throughout the seven-year history of...

May 5, 2021 The artist beeple, aka Mike Winkelman, in early 2021 sold a series of digital pieces for $69 million, the highest price ever paid for digital art. Courtesy of Close Authorship Minutes before midnight March 22, two art collectors got into a heated bidding war at a charity auction for a climate organization. The auction was happening online, but it was eliciting the same staggering dollar amounts and tense drama of an in-person auction house. The item in contention was a single pictu...

Regen Network Sells Out $10.5M Round, Launches Regen Ledger Regen Network Development, Inc (RND) has announced the much-anticipated mainnet launch of Regen Ledger, a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain focused on ecological data, assets, and agreements. The project has also just sold out their private token sale, raising more than $10.5 million from 216 investors. The launch of Regen Ledger opens up the opportunity to bring climate finance into the DeFi movement. Regen Network aims to address the p...

February 17, 2021 | The Brief The Brief: Soil-carbon markets, edtech startups, reduce and recycle, expanding EV charging, Goldman’s sustainability bond, pay for success The team at Greetings, Agents of Impact!  Suzanne Biegel joins Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm London / 8pm Nairobi. RSVP today.  Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Farmers harvest ‘soil carbon’ to meet rising corporate demand for emission offsets. Candidates in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Iowa were aske...

Microsoft uses blockchain technology to purchase soil carbon credits in Australia The tech giant purchased 43,338 metric tons worth of soil carbon credits that are representative of carbon sequestration at ranches in New South Wales. 13668 Total views News Microsoft has employed blockchain technology to purchase soil carbon credits in Australia. In combination with Regen Network — built on the Cosmos blockchain — the CarbonPlus Grassland credits were initially issued to two ranche...

Chinas blockchain service network announces Cosmos integration Cosmos becomes the first public blockchain to be added to the China-only version of the Blockchain-based Service Network. 12852 Total views News Tweeting on Monday, the Blockchain-based Service Network — China’s blockchain infrastructure project — announced that it had adapted Cosmos (ATOM) to its Chinese network. The Chinese BSN, unlike the international version, only supports permissioned enterprise blockchains. Thu...

February 2, 2021 | Climate and Clean Tech Microsoft emerges as a major customer for captured carbon ImpactAlpha Editor Amy Cortese ImpactAlpha, Feb. 2 – The software giant paid an average of $20 per ton for up 1.3 million metric tons of carbon removal last year, making it one of the market’s largest purchases. The carbon credits will help the company make progress on its ambitious goal to be carbon negative by 2035 and to eliminate by 2050 all the carbon it has emitted since it was found...