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dClimate Partners with Namibia to Create a Blockchain-Native Registry to Quantify and Monetize the Country’s Green Hydrogen

dClimate, a decentralized climate information ecosystem, today announced a partnership with Namibia through the University of Namibia to become a verifier for the country’s carbon impact and sustainability initiatives. As part of this partnership, dClimate will establish a blockchain-native registry and verification system for quantifying the country’s carbon

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dClimate: Recapping Year One

Recapping Year One and What We Have Planned for 2022 Hey friends! It’s crazy to think it’s been one year since we publicly released the dClimate Whitepaper and our vision for a community powered, data-driven climate information network. We aimed to create an accessible, easily readable Whitepaper that

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New To Our API: Above Ground Biomass Data

dClimate recently added ESA CCI Above Ground Biomass Data to our API. As our team makes new data available through our API and larger data infrastructure, we will send out updates to the community and write ups to explain the significance and applications for the data being added. The dClimate

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How the DeFi and ReFi Economy Can End Greenwashing in the Voluntary Carbon Offset Markets

Despite the increased popularity and hype surrounding the voluntary carbon offset industry and the concept of cap-and-trade systems, the current framework leaves much to be desired. Problems such as carbon leakage, additionality, poor pricing, and the lack of carbon sequestration projects are holding the industry back and must be taken

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Blockchain and Tokenization of Things vs Internet of Things (IoT): Significance to Climate Data

By Manavi Garg, dClimate Ambassador Internet of Things (IoT) gained traction in the 2000s, with the dot com bubble acting as a catalyst in digital transformation, across all industries and transforming mechanisms in industries to be a part of a digital ecosystem for the last two decades. Innovation within the

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dClimate + Telos + Kanda Aim for the Sky and Bring IoT Sensor Data On-Chain

dClimate is thrilled to announce its partnership with Telos and Kanda Weather to decentralize and democratize climate data collection dClimate, the first decentralized ecosystem for Earth’s climate record, is excited to partner with Telos, one of the world’s most active blockchain networks to launch and scale its IoT

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dClimate FAQ’s

Learn More About dClimate’s Mission, the Marketplace, the Ecosystem, and How You Can Get Involved Today! The latest version of our FAQ can be found here.   What is dClimate? A transparent, decentralized climate data marketplace and DAO that allows participants to buy and share data and contribute to an

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The Problem With the Voluntary Carbon Offsets Market

While carbon offsets are a well-intentioned sustainability strategy, there are several issues with the existing voluntary carbon offset market. There are five key issues with online carbon registries. The first is scalability. Since the typical process for verifying carbon offsets can potentially take years (even small projects can take months

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The Importance of Transparent, Decentralized Data Validation

How the dClimate Data Marketplace Makes It Easy for Consumers to Shop for Validated, Reliable Climate Information A question we often get is how do we ensure the data on dClimate is reliable, accurate, and transparently validated? How does the dClimate marketplace help consumers shop for data? The main feature

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Why Would Anyone Pay for Climate Data?

A question that our team often gets is why would anyone pay for climate data? Sure, some climate data is free, but like most free things you get what you pay for. 1. It has large gaps in coverage for locations 2. It will often be missing data for long

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dClimate Data Update

The dClimate data infrastructure is rapidly growing, with new datasets being added every week. The infrastructure currently includes data that is standardized and prepared for institutional use, including satellite data and data covering perils such as snow, wind, rainfall, and temperature. Some highlights of the infrastructure to date: * Coverage spanning

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Unique Applications of Decentralized Climate Data

By Misha Patel, dClimate Ambassador When you think of “climate data”, you probably think about data regarding long-term weather patterns. However, weather data is only a fraction of information considered under the “climate data” umbrella. Climate data refers to a diverse set of data representing the entire terrestrial biome including

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Data is Just the Base Layer

Building an Open, Transparent, and Decentralized Climate Data Ecosystem Do I need a rain jacket? An umbrella? Or perhaps a heavy jacket and boots? These are common questions that we often look to the weather app on our phones to resolve for us. With the exception of those of us

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Announcing WorkSight: A dClimate-Powered Analytics App for the Construction Industry

dClimate is excited to announce the launch of our very first ecosystem app today: WorkSight. WorkSight is a user-friendly, dClimate-powered analytics platform for the construction industry. It allows site managers to proactively plan projects around weather. In just a few minutes, project managers can figure out how many work days

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dClimate Tech Update

Hey everyone! It’s been an exciting summer packed full of developments, so I wanted to take a second to give an update of what we have been working on: * We finished the initial version of our marketplace dApp frontend (with Magic wallet integration) which sets the stage both for

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Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov Joins Decentralized Data Marketplace dClimate As a Strategic Advisor

dClimate, the world’s first decentralized network for climate data, today announced that Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov has joined its team as a strategic advisor. Nazarov joins the ranks of other project advisors, entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban and Atlantic Council Distinguished Fellow Ambassador J. Peter Pham. dClimate is the

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Why Access to Secure and Reliable Climate Data Is Important

By Manavi Garg, dClimate Ambassador In 2015, the Paris Agreement sparked over 196 countries to sign up to lower global temperatures to below 2°C (35.6°F), ideally to 1.5°C (34.7°F). Some key measures to achieve these goals include countries incorporating ways to reduce greenhouse

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Distinguished Africa Expert Ambassador J. Peter Pham Joins dClimate’s Advisory Board

NEW YORK (July. 29, 2021) — dClimate, the first decentralized network for climate data, today announced that renowned Africa expert Ambassador J. Peter Pham has joined dClimate’s advisory board. Ambassador Pham is currently a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, and will help

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New Age of Weather Data on the Blockchain

dClimate Contributor Piece By Bennett Thompson Weather on the blockchain: sounds crazy, right? Well, maybe not. Although you may only use the weather app to decide how to dress in the morning, there are much larger implications of what is happening with the weather. Up to 70% of businesses are

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Announcing dClimate’s Community Ambassador Program

Become a Leader in the dClimate Community Today Load the application here! Apply today to become an official dClimate ambassador! dClimate ambassadors will have the opportunity to work directly with our team to organize community events, lead community engagement efforts, and contribute thought leadership to our official blog. As a

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Mark Cuban Joins Decentralized Climate Data Marketplace dClimate As An Investor and Strategic Advisor

NEW YORK (June. 16, 2021) — dClimate, the first decentralized network for climate data, today announced that entrepreneur Mark Cuban has joined dClimate as an investor and strategic advisor. The investment was made through Cuban’s venture capital group, Radical Investments. “From insurance products that payout based on rainfall data to

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dClimate Tech Announcements

Data Consumer REST API and Data Consumer Client Codebase Now Available dClimate’s mandate is to build a decentralized ecosystem for climate data. This ecosystem as we envision it consists of three high-level architectural components: 1. A data consumer component where users can retrieve clean, standardized, highly available, and immutable

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Why Climate Data Matters for the Global Music and Sports Industries

One of the most substantial and overlooked categories of external risk that businesses large and small currently face is climate risk. It is estimated that 70% of businesses globally have some financial exposure to the weather. Businesses in the global music industry, professional sports leagues and others that derive much

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dClimate Raises $3.5 Million Seed Round With Support from CoinFund, Multicoin Capital and Republic Labs to Create the First Decentralized Network for Climate Data

NEW YORK (April. 8, 2021) — dClimate, the first decentralized network for climate data, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $3.5 million seed financing round led by CoinFund, with participation from Multicoin Capital and Republic Labs. The funds were raised in exchange for the network’s native governance token,

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An Introduction to dClimate: A Decentralized Network for Climate Data

By Sid Jha, Ben Andre, Philippe Heilberg, and Osho Jha Today, we are proud to introduce the world to dClimate, a decentralized marketplace where climate data, models, and forecasts are standardized, monetized, and distributed. Who Is dClimate For? Those of us living in developed nations might take the importance of