Blockchain

{{DigitalResource The opportunity around blockchain for the environment sector centres around its promise to generate robust and transparent ‘smart contracts’ which will play a pivotal role in the development of conservation finance contracts, conservation covenants and payment for ecosystem services.
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 * Resource=Blockchain implementations
 * Link=https://digitaltransformation.miraheze.org/wiki/Blockchain
 * Description=A guide to blockchain implementations that support digital transformation within the environment sector.
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 * Blog====Commentary===

The main blocker (sic) at the moment is that current decentralised finance technology (DeFi) that powers blockchain implementations require environmentally wasteful mining algorithms to ensure trust in the decentralised ledgers that make up the blockchain. This ‘proof by work’ approach is currently being evolved into a ‘proof of stake’ approach at the expense of a fully decentralised model, with the latter considerably less energy wasteful.

Online guides
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 * List of blockchain implementations aspiring for environmental sustainability [Leafscore.com https://www.leafscore.com/blog/the-9-most-sustainable-cryptocurrencies-for-2021/]
 * IOTA guide to Smart Contracts https://blog.iota.org/an-introduction-to-iota-smart-contracts-16ea6f247936/
 * Smart Contracts for Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Conceptual Frameworks for Supply Chain Maturity Evaluation and Smart Contract Sustainability Assessment https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2021.506436/full
 * Building enterprise blockchain ecosystems through global, open source collaboration https://www.hyperledger.org/