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Toucan Protocol builds infrastructure for carbon markets to finance the world's
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Web3-Climate


5 WAYS WEB3 CAN ACCELERATE CLIMATE ACTION

What are the core ideas around blockchains and web3-incentivized climate action?
What are the key barriers that might get in the way of success?

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Guest Author Oct 18, 2022 • 6 min read
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DECARBONIZED #31: DAC’S JOURNEY TO SCALE; RESPONSES TO INTEGRITY COUNCIL’S DRAFT
CARBON PRINCIPLES

Tracing the evolving contours of the Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology;
understanding IC-VCM’s public consultation on Core Carbon Principles, and Verra,
Gold Standard’s reactions to it

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Vaisakh Hari Oct 5, 2022 • 6 min read
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DECODING VERRA, GOLD STANDARD RESPONSES TO IC-VCM’S DRAFT CARBON PRINCIPLES

How different stakeholders view the Integrity Council's core carbon principles,
and how it could shape the voluntary carbon markets going forward

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Vaisakh Hari Oct 4, 2022 • 8 min read
Announcements


TOUCAN 🤝 RETURN PROTOCOL | AUTOMATING CLIMATE ACTION

Toucan partners with Return Protocol. Together, we'll make climate action across
blockchains as simple as possible! Learn more here!

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Vaisakh Hari Sep 29, 2022 • 3 min read
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TOUCAN GRANTS SEASON 1 ROUNDUP

Toucan Grants recipients, Season 1: Carbon project origination infrastructure &
carbon marketplaces, NFT utility, GameFi, and a regenerative metaverse

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Vaisakh Hari Sep 26, 2022 • 7 min read
Announcements


TOUCAN BURN REPORT VOL 2 – SUPPORTING THE CLEANUP OF THE BCT POOL 🌍

Economics should be regenerative by design. A living example for this is our fee
structure: 80% of specific fees are used to retire the lowest-quality carbon
credits in Toucan carbon pools.

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Ela Khodai Sep 21, 2022 • 2 min read
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DECARBONIZED #30: LACUNAE IN CDR FRAMEWORKS; REFI’S EXPANDING HORIZONS

From ocean conservation to climate-positive NFTs, ReFi projects are changing the
world; the need for greater policy scrutiny; blockchain and voluntary carbon
markets

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Vaisakh Hari Sep 20, 2022 • 6 min read
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8 WAYS REFI IS DRIVING CLIMATE ACTION WITH THE HELP OF GITCOIN GRANTS 🍃

Gitcoin Grants Round 15 (GR15) runs from September 7-22, 2022. We’ve looked at
the projects raising funds on Gitcoin now, and grouped them into our favorite
ways ReFi is driving climate action.

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Guest Author Sep 20, 2022 • 9 min read
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TOUCAN 💚 GITCOIN & PUBLIC GOODS

Toucan is donating $5,000 to the Gitcoin GR15 climate matching pool. We will
also offset all emissions from Gitcoin GR15 up until the Ethereum Merge 🌿

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Ela Khodai Sep 14, 2022 • 2 min read
Web3-Climate


#REFLYSUMMER: DRIVING DEMAND FOR ON-CHAIN CARBON ON CELO

More demand for carbon credits = more incentive to build planet-positive
projects. Read here how web3 helps scale carbon credit demand.

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Ela Khodai, Anna Watson Sep 9, 2022 • 3 min read
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DECARBONIZED #29: BLOCKCHAIN ENERGY USE AND CLIMATE ACTION; VCM RESPONSES TO
JOHN OLIVER SKIT

Reactions to John Oliver's portrayal of carbon markets; can blockchain be good
for the climate; looking for a deCarbonized guest author

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Anna Watson Sep 6, 2022 • 4 min read
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CAN BLOCKCHAIN BE GOOD FOR THE CLIMATE? 🗻

Those working in climate often associate blockchain with the excessive amounts
of energy used by Bitcoin. Indeed, this issue continues to steal headlines and
railroad conversations about the potential of blockchain to unlock new solutions
for climate action. There is however growing support for blockchain solutions
amongst key global institutions.

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Anna Watson Aug 31, 2022 • 5 min read
Announcements


TOUCAN 🤝 SPIRALS — CLIMATE-FINANCING ON CELO

We're excited to partner with Spirals on Celo! Spirals redirects block rewards
to climate impact, and enables effortless climate financing.

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Ela Khodai Aug 29, 2022 • 2 min read
Announcements


$NCT ADDED AS CURRENCY TO LENS🎉

Decentralized social graph Lens Protocol has integrated NCT (tokenized,
nature-based carbon credits) as a native currency! Read here what this means

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Ela Khodai Aug 25, 2022 • 2 min read
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DECARBONIZED #28: DISPELLING 5 MYTHS ABOUT TOKENIZED CARBON; NEW FRONTIER CDR
FUNDING ROUND

IFC co-launches the Carbon Opportunities Fund, which aims to sell and track
tokenized carbon credits; Verra releases biochar methodology developed by South
Pole and partners

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Anna Watson Aug 23, 2022 • 5 min read
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DISPELLING 5 MYTHS ABOUT TOKENIZED CARBON 🔮

Tokenized carbon credits are created by moving credits from the traditional
voluntary carbon market (VCM) onto the blockchain. To date, Toucan have
tokenized nearly 22 million carbon credits from the Verra Registry, representing
5% of current market supply. The speed at which innovation in this space has
occurred however has

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Anna Watson Aug 22, 2022 • 4 min read
Web3-Climate


ETHBARCELONA — HOW TO EXECUTE AN ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY CONFERENCE

ETHBarcelona was designed to be as sustainable and eco-friendly as possible. In
addition to reducing emissions wherever possible, Toucan sponsored offsetting
all unavoidable emissions.

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Ela Khodai Aug 22, 2022 • 5 min read
Announcements


11 CELO PROJECTS THAT ARE BUILDING WITH TOUCAN CARBON

Check out these exciting projects building with carbon on Celo - from NFTs &
decentralized climate investing to DeFi applications & ReFi indexes!
#ReFlySummer

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Ela Khodai Aug 19, 2022 • 4 min read
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TOUCAN IS LIVE ON CELO!

#ReFlySummer is here — we're thrilled to announce that Toucan Protocol is live
on Celo!

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Ela Khodai Aug 10, 2022 • 5 min read
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DECARBONIZED #27: TOKENIZATION CONSULTATION OPENS; REFI FOR REGENERATIVE CARBON;
FUTURE OF DIGITAL MRV

Photo by Zak💡 Spotlight storyVerra consultation on tokenized carbon now open!
Last week, Verra released the full details on their upcoming public consultation
on third-party crypto instruments and tokens, which will run for 60 days until
2nd October. As hinted in their announcement 2 weeks ago, there is a strong

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Anna Watson Aug 9, 2022 • 5 min read
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BUILDING REGENERATIVE CARBON MARKETS WITH WEB3 🌄

Web3 is unlocking innovation in financial and carbon markets, creating
opportunities for regenerative approaches to tackle the climate crisis. Our
Founder James Farrell recently explored this exciting intersection at ETH
Barcelona, introducing key features of the emerging regenerative finance
movement, voluntary carbon markets and how they can come together to

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Anna Watson Aug 8, 2022 • 5 min read
Announcements


TOUCAN 🤝 IVY PROTOCOL | FUTURE CARBON CREDITS

Ivy Protocol is an on-chain crowdfunding platform for climate action. They
connect early-stage carbon offset projects with funding and resources worldwide.
We're excited to deliver a grant and partner with Ivy!

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Ela Khodai Aug 2, 2022 • 2 min read
Announcements


TOUCAN 🤝 ATLANTIS WORLD

Atlantis World is building the Web3 social metaverse — and they plan to enable
carbon retiring in-game.

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Ela Khodai Jul 28, 2022 • 2 min read
Web3-Climate


TOUCAN IN PARIS - OUR TOP 10 MOMENTS

Toucan Flock is still buzzing from the amazing energy in Paris last week - the
ReFi crowd just gets cooler & cooler! Here are some of our highlights.

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Ela Khodai Jul 27, 2022 • 3 min read
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DECARBONIZED #26: VERRA TOKENISATION UPDATE; ENSURING QUALITY OF VCM OPERATION;
SCALING LONG-TERM CDR

Photo by Burak The Weekender💡 Spotlight storyVerra releases plan for
consultation on tokenized carbonVerra have announced plans to launch their
public consultation into the use of web3 instruments in early August. This news
has been hotly anticipated by the growing community who sees tokenization as the
future of climate action

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Anna Watson Jul 26, 2022 • 6 min read
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