Recent Press

In the list below you can find recent media articles that have mentioned dClimate or interviewed team members for the write-up. It also includes articles written by team members that are published on external venues, as well as recorded keynote talks, panel discussions, and podcast appearances from the dClimate team.

Council Post: A Path Forward: Why The Voluntary Carbon Market Is Worth Salvaging
As we navigate these decisive times, a revitalized VCM could lead the way, signaling a beacon of hope in our collective journey toward a more sustainable future.

Jan 9, 2024 - dClimate co-founder Sid Jha has authored this article about how the VCM can improve its integrity with remote sensing, digital MRV, and blockchain technologies.

Billionaire Mark Cuban Backing $1 Billion Congo Carbon Plan
A climate startup backed by investors including billionaire Mark Cuban signed a preliminary deal to generate $1 billion of carbon credits by preventing deforestation across a swath of the world’s second-biggest tropical forest.

Dec 12, 2023 - dClimate Signs MoU With Democratic Republic of Congo to Protect the Congo Basin Rainforest and Peatlands

The Power of Climate Data with Sid and Osho Jha from dClimate & Arbol │ S3Ep13 🎧
Come on a journey with John from ReFi DAO in an engaging episode with Sid and Osho Jha, founders of Arbol and dClimate. The Jha brothers share the story of c…

Nov 29, 2023 - dClimate co-founders Sid and Osho Jha were guests on the ReFi Podcast, discussing climate data, CYCLOPS for monitoring natural capital, climate risk management, and other climate-related topics.

Climate Collective: dMRV Demo Day (July 2023)
A recording of the Climate Collective: dMRV Demo Day. Hosted July 2023.Decks:Open Forest Protocol: https://docsend.com/view/g732t3ht5cp6ycvt

Aug 3, 2023 - dClimate's Head of Growth, Robert Heilberg, discussed CYCLOPS on Climate Collective' Members Demo Day about dMRV

ReFi Summit 2023: Panels: MRV Innovation
Panel on MRV Innovation at the 2023 ReFi Summit in Seattle, WA. Panelists include:Jon Pierre - GeoTreeRobert Heilberg - dClimateCate Kelly - Open Forest Prot…

Jul 28, 2023 - dClimate's Head of Growth, Robert Heilberg, was one of the speakers in this panel discussion about MRV at the ReFi Summit.

The Climate Tech Connection: dMRV, AI, and Blockchain
Join the CEO’s of dClimate, Open Forest Protocol, and the Climate Collective for a conversation on how emerging technologies like AI and blockchain can unlea…

Jun 2, 2023 - A discussion on how emerging technologies like AI and blockchain can unleash the future of nature tech and enable new data and digital MRV solutions for scaling global carbon markets.

Rainforest Protection: dClimate & Rainforest Partnership’s Earth Day Dialog
Join us for an inspiring Earth Day live discussion between dClimate, a leading decentralized climate data platform, and Rainforest Partnership, a non-profit…

Apr 21, 2023 - dClimate's co-founder and CEO, Osho Jha, had a conversation with Niyanta Spelman, CEO of Rainforest Partnership, about rainforest preservation.

How blockchain is creating accountability in climate risk
For example, a smart contract-enabled parametric insurance product could be designed to automatically pay out to farmers in the event of a drought.

Apr 21, 2023 - dClimate's co-founder and CEO, Osho Jha, wrote this article for Digital Insurance. The piece explains how blockchain technologies increases accountability in the climate risk management sector. 

Unleashing the Green Economy: How Blockchain Can Transform Climate-Friendly Investment Opportunities
By unlocking the immense potential of blockchain, we stand at the precipice of a transformative era in the global movement towards a greener economy, Osho Jha writes.

Apr 21, 2023 - dClimate's co-founder and CEO, Osho Jha, wrote this piece for Coindesk. It details how blockchain technologies, open data infrastructure, and tokenized carbon credits can be used for climate impact.

How Tech Can Drive Climate Insurance | Insurance Thought Leadership
Technology-driven climate insurance can address the gap between the risks homeowners face and the coverage insurers can provide.||The devastating impact of natural disasters is felt by millions of people across the globe each year. Census Bureau data from the U.S.

Apr 2, 2023 - dClimate's Co-Founder Sid Jha has written this article about how technologies such as AI, blockchain, and machine learning can drive climate insurance.

The Importance of Digital MRV - ReFi Panel | Climate Summit @ ETHDenver 2023
Recording of the discussion panel about The Importance of Digital MRV at the Climate Summit during ETHDenver 2023, organized by Flowcarbon.dClimate’s Head of…

Mar 30, 2023 - dClimate's Head of Growth Robert Heilberg was a panel speaker at the Climate Summit during ETH Denver 2023

Parametric insurance: The potential for underserved communities, SMEs | PropertyCasualty360
Insurers face pressure to offer pragmatic, risk-management solutions in response to severe-weather events.

Mar 23, 2023 - dClimate's Co-Founder Sid Jha has written this article detailing how parametric insurance can be a valuable tool to improve financial resilience against climate risks for SMEs and underserved communities.

Scaling Climate Finance With Blockchains - Chainlink
Explore how the World Bank, BIS, and others are using blockchain to build scalable carbon markets set to facilitate trillions of dollars in climate finance activity.

Mar 9, 2023 - dClimate got mentioned in this long-read about the role of data in climate finance powered by blockchain technology

Using Oracles to Integrate Climate Data into Decision Making with Manavi Garg - W3B Talks
This episode takes a look at data oracles and the role of climate data in the Web3 era. We are joined today by Manavi Garg, Head of Strategic Partnerships at dClimate.

Mar 7, 2023 - dClimate’s Head of Strategic Partnerships Manavi Garg was invited on the W3B Talks podcast to talk about data oracles and the role of climate data in the Web3 era

Panel - The role technology can play in monitoring natural capital
Moderator: Adam Gibbon - Natural Capital Lead at AXA Investment ManagersPanellists: * Stefanie Kaiser - Sector head for nature-based solutions and carbon mar…

Mar 1, 2023 - dClimate's Head of Growth Robert Heilberg was a panel speaker at Rebalance Earth - Natural Capital Conference 2023

Four Ways Blockchain Can Help the Insurance Industry Tackle Climate Change
The fight against climate change will require the kind of trust and transparency that blockchain technology excels at.

Feb 22, 2023 - dClimate's Co-Founder Sid Jha was interviewed for this article about climate insurance and the role of blockchain technology.

🔥Miamiweb3 Day 2 Panel: Can Crypto Save The World? Crypto For Good.
🎙️Panelists:Brittany Laughlin of Stacks Open Internet FoundationOsho Jha of dClimateClarence Wooten of Google XChris Adamo of Flamingo CapitalMichelle Abbs…

Feb 9, 2023 - dClimate's Co-Founder and CEO Osho Jha attended a panel discussion at MiamiWeb3 2023

Rethinking Blockchain: Building Sustainable Public Finfrastructure
This is “Rethinking Blockchain: Building Sustainable Public Finfrastructure” by Milken Institute on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…

Jan 12, 2023 - dClimate's CEO and Co-Founder Osho Jha was invited for a panel discussion at Milken Institute's Public Finance Forum

Leveraging Innovative & Blended Finance to Tackle Climate Change - Amaly Legacy
Amaly Legacy is a podcast that offers perspectives at the nexus of philanthropy, impact investments, and social and environmental innovation. We offer insights on unlocking funds across donations, grants, debt, equity and innovative finance.

Dec 26, 2022 - dClimate's Co-Founder Sid Jha was a special guest on this podcast to talk about the applications of innovative and blended finance to tackle climate change

How is Web3 Restructuring Value for Forestry & Agricultural Land Owners & Stewards? - Amaly Legacy
Amaly Legacy is a podcast that offers perspectives at the nexus of philanthropy, impact investments, and social and environmental innovation. We offer insights on unlocking funds across donations, grants, debt, equity and innovative finance.

Dec 26, 2022 - dClimate's Head of Growth Robert Heilberg was a guest on this podcast to talk about Web3 and blockchain tools to restructure forest and agricultural land ownership

Blockchain for Climate Action: Insurance, Carbon, and Open Data Infrastructure | SmartCon 2022
Explore the intricacies of blockchain-based insurance infrastructure with Arbol Founder and CEO Sid Jha in this SmartCon 2022 presentation. From oracle-power...

Nov 1, 2022 - dClimate Co-Founder Sid Jha gave a keynote talk at SmartCon

Smart contract-enabled insurance holds promise, but can it be scaled?
Parametric insurance isn’t entirely new; it has been around for several decades.

Oct 14, 2022 - dClimate Co-Founder Sid Jha was interviewed for this article

dClimate: Smart Contracts for the Warming World
dClimate’s Sid Jha, a speaker at CoinDesk’s IDEAS conference, is a decentralized marketplace for climate-related data.

Oct 11, 2022 - Coindesk's profile piece on dClimate Co-Founder Sid Jha

dClimate acquires Oasis Hub to expand climate change datasets - Reinsurance News
dClimate has announced it has acquired Oasis Hub, a leading global data platform and aggregator for catastrophe, extreme weather, climate change and

Sept 21, 2022 - Reinsurance News covered dClimate's acquirement of Oasis Hub

Building Data Infrastructure to Scale Regenerative Finance (ReFi) -- Sid Jha

Jul 28, 2022 - dClimate Co-Founder Sid Jha gave a keynote talk at the Sustainable Blockchain Summit EU

DMRV Roundtable - Osho Jha, Arbol Market
ReFi DAO – DMRV Roundtable, 24 June 2022#mrv #web3 #refi # SpeakerOsho Jha, Arbolhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/osho-jha/https://www.arbolmarket.com/Arbol’s pl...

Jul 22, 2022 - dClimate's CEO and Co-Founder Osho Jha was invited for a talk about digital monitoring, reporting and verification (DMRV)

dClimate: the Decentralized Network for Climate Data
The blockchain and cryptocurrency industry can become an important player in renewable energy and drive objective, actionable change towards sustainability. ...

Apr 4, 2022 - dClimate's CEO and Co-Founder Osho Jha presented on Chainlink's Sustainable Blockchain Summit at SXSW

Renewable hydrogen project in Namibia will have blockchain verification
dClimate, a decentralized climate data provider, has partnered with the country to verify sustainability. dClimate, a decentralized climate data provider, has

Mar 10, 2022 - dClimate's partnership with Namibia was covered by Hydrogen Fuel News

Mark Cuban-backed blockchain DAO partners with Namibia for sustainability initiative - Ledger Insights - blockchain for enterprise
dClimate is working with University of Namibia to measure and verify the carbon benefits of Namibia’s green hydrogen energy project

Mar 4, 2022 - dClimate's partnership with Namibia was covered by Ledger Insights

dClimate’s Sid Jha Explains Why Oracles Shed Light On How To Face Climate Change
In the weeks following the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which concluded that climate change and ensuing extreme weather events are inevitable for at least the next three decades, the U.S. alone has endured deadly floods, ravenous wildfires and historic storms. Da…

Sept 2, 2021 - Chainlink Today wrote about Sid Jha's keynote at SmartCon

Can AI Data Modeling Prevent Climate Catastrophe?
As predictive analytics models improve, innovators in this space are advocating for better access and ways to interpret climate data, which has historically been scattered and expensive.

Aug 21, 2021 - dClimate's co-founder Sid Jha was interviewed by Forbes for this article

Sid Jha: How Oracles and Smart Contracts Can Help Fight Climate Change
During a SmartCon keynote, Arbol CEO and dClimate Founding Partner Sid Jha detailed how blockchains, smart contracts, and oracles can help farmers and busine...

Aug 16, 2021 - dClimate's co-founder Sid Jha presentation at SmartCon

Arbol CEO Sid Jha Discusses Critical Need For Decentralized Insurance And Climate Data Ahead Of SmartCon #1
Sid Jha is Founder and CEO of Arbol Inc., a blockchain-based parametric insurance platform, and a founding partner of dClimate, the first decentralized climate and weather data marketplace connecting researchers and scientists who publish climate data with enterprises, governments and insurance plat…

Jul 26, 2021 - dClimate's co-founder Sid Jha was interviewed by Chainlink Today in preparation for his SmartCon keynote talk

Mark Cuban’s Support Of Chainlink-Powered Startups Grows With dClimate Investment
In a blog post this week, billionaire investor, Shark Tank star and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban wrote that “banks should be scared” of the superior yield offered by open-source DeFi protocols like Aave. As more decentralized services lead to more advanced use cases for hybrid smart contracts,…

Jun 17, 2021 - Chainlink Today reported on the fundraise of dClimate, in which Mark Cuban participated

Mark Cuban Is Now Backing This Ethereum, Chainlink Data Project - Decrypt
Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban is investing in and advising data project dClimate, which uses Chainlink and Ethereum.

Jun 16, 2021 - Decrypt reported on the fundraise of dClimate, in which Mark Cuban participated

Arbol Founders Launching Chainlink-Powered Decentralized Weather And Climate Data Marketplace, dClimate
Weather volatility is on the rise and businesses are forced to mitigate mounting risk. According to a report by global insurance provider AGCS, insurers annually paid out $15 billion for catastrophic weather events between 1980 and 1989; between 2010 and 2013, annual payouts increased to $70 billion…

Jun 10, 2021 - Chainlink Today reported on dClimate's launch

Chainlink Live | dClimate: Blockchain Climate Data for InsurTech
Join us on Chainlink Live for a video Q&A with dClimate featuring Arbol CEO and dClimate founding partner Sid Jha. We cover the progress dClimate is making i...

May 13, 2021 - dClimate's co-founder Sid Jha was a guest on the Chainlink Live podcast