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Startups are leaning on technology like blockchain to verify the legitimacy of carbon credits in a bid to drive growth in the credit-trading market.

Estonian startup Single.Earth, backed by EQT Ventures, chose Solana blockchain to provide security and transparency for its platform after a thorough evaluation of different blockchain technologies' capabilities and energy use. “People often speak of the massive energy use of blockchain, but this talk is based on old, so-called proof of…

The team at the Tartu, Estonia-based sTARTUp Day business festival put together a list of startup-related buzzwords from the last year; read on to learn which topics were hot in 2021 and which Estonian startups are catering to these trends.

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 […]

You think money grows on trees? Estonian firm seeks finance from forests Estonian company Single.Earth has raised millions of dollars to buy forests and wetlands, it said on Friday, aiming to tap into a rapidly growing carbon-offset market and public concern over the amount of logging in the country. The company is a digital platform for landowners that connects them with businesses that will pay them to preserve trees to balance out their own carbon footprints and become "carbon neutral".Reuters | Updated: 15-01-2021 17:20 IST | Created: 15-01-2021 16:44 IST Representative Picture Image ...