The presentation focused on the role blockchain can play in supporting the green transition. There is an urgent need to enhance the sustainability of blockchain. At the same time, blockchain offers important and unique opportunities as an enabler to enhance the sustainability across all sectors of the economy and contribute to climate action

1. Blockchain for Sustainability and Climate
Action
Blockchain & CleanTech. It's a Match!
15.12.2021
Dr. Björn-Sören Gigler, Head of Blockchain and
Data Economy – GIZ
Email: Bjorn-Soren.Gigler@giz.de
Twitter: bgigler
LinkedIn

2. 1. Blockchain for Results
2. Fostering Blockchain Ecosystems
3. GIZ – Blockchain Partnerships
4. Blockchain for Climate Action
5. Digital4Climate Learning platform
Agenda
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3. Why Blockchain?
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• Brings trust to digital transactions
• Efficiency, lower transaction costs and secure (e.g.
traceability, real-time data)
• Effective to verify and validate data (peer-to-peer
network)
• Decentralised data governance model
• Enhance transparency and accountability (immutable
ledger)
• Transformative capacities (disintermediation, digital
payments)
• Provides incentives for behavioural change (tokenisation)
• Convergence of Blockchain with IoT and AI

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Blockchain for Results
• Improving the effectiveness, openness and
inclusion of development programs
• Trust
Building accountability based on decentralized
mult-stakeholder networks
• Transparency and Accountability
Improved tracking and tracing of resources
(Follow the Money)
• Inclusion
Incentivize people to empower sustainable
behavior and enable micro transactions

5. Key Challenges
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• Energy Consumption (Proof of work vs Proof of
stake)
• Interoperability (Open Standards)
• Technological Maturity
• Scalability (permissionless vs permission
blockchains)
• Data Quality (data controls at entry)
• Data protection and privacy
• Regulatory Framework (regulatory sandbox)

6. 6
EU Blockchain Ecosystem

7. EU vs other regions; Investment gap
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8. EU Investments in AI/Blockchain
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• EU Program to support investment for start-ups, early and growth stages
• Total investments EUR 1,3 billion (EUR 100 million EU contribution)
• With ambitious objectives:
• Financing a portfolio of innovative AI/blockchain companies
• Developing a dynamic EU-wide investors community focusing on AI
• Scaling up the volume of investments at the national level by
involving the national promotional banks (NPBs) that are willing to
participate
• Incentivising further private sector investments
• making Europe become more attractive for start-ups to stay and
grow
future support through InvestEU Programme

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Strengethen Innovation
Ecosytems-
Community of Practice
Support Sustainable
Blockchain Programs
GIZ- Blockchain Partnerships

10. Paris Agreement and blockchain
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• Information sharing &  Trust in transactions through
Review mechanisms peer-to-peer network
• Accountability  Verification & time-stamps
• Decentralised hybrid  Decentralized data system using
approach consensus
• Measuring, reporting &  Immutable data records for
Verification of emissions increased traceability and trust
• Public-private  Consensus mechanism through
partnerships public-private stakeholders
Needs of Paris
Agreement
Features of Blockchain

11. Paris Agreement: Information flow
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• enable and transparent information flows & data exchanges
• support evaluation of NDC targets (national measures)
• improve tracking of GHG reductions across sectors
• facilitate climate financing through improved visibility and
credibility of mitigation actions (international cooperation)

12. 1) Traceability along supply chains
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• Transaction along the supply change can be monitored
and tracked through immutable records
• Transparency and traceability of products from source to
end consumers
• Provides control & compliance mechanism by connecting
all stakeholders in a global supply chain

13. 2) Measuring, Reporting & Verification
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• Unlock more accurate ways to measure, report and
verify climate outcomes at lower transaction costs
• Improved access to real-time, transparent and
trustworthy GHG emissions data
• Smart contracts enable efficiency gains and automised
issuance, transfer and payment systems
• Enhance data-driven decision-making by policy makers,
consumers and investors
• Facilitate access to carbon markets & results-based
financing for private sector actors
 Digitalizing MRV is based on convergence of digital
technologies (IoT, blockchain and AI)

14. 3) Efficiency of Carbon Markets
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• Optmize existing carbon market
platforms
• Create new opportunities for
carbon credit transactions
• Smart contracts can enhance the
Transparency and credibility of
Carbon markets
• Improve links between existing
markets and national registries
• Reduce transaction costs
(time and cost savings)

15. 4) Enable Innovations and Behavior Change
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• Blockchain-enabled platforms can expand the access to
sustainable finance and impact investments
• provide efficient, fast and transparent cross-border payment
systems (i.e. reforestation programs)
• Tokenized Economy- enables business innovations to provide
efficient and transparency services
• Blockchain-based services provide incentives for businesses and
citizens to change behaviours
• Rewarding climate-friendly actions by issuing financial rewards in
the form of tokens (i.e. Plastic Bank)

16. Digital4Climate Learning Program
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Climate | Twin
Transition Project
(atingi.org)

17. Blockchain Ecosystem and cooperations
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Decembe
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DLT-Ecosystems
worldwide Portfolio
Public Partners
Private sector, civil society
Multi-Stakeholder Groups