$333k for Climate! | Gitcoin Climate Round w/ Ben West

Please meet Alejandro Adon of Kokonut Network. Based in the Dominican Republic, Kokonut Network provides blockchain governance and open-source accounting to the agricultural industry. Their mission is to promote, organize, fund, and manage coconut farms around the world. https://kokonut.network/ As a blockchain-based cooperative, Kokonut aims to develop and manage a network of coconut farms, all connected by web3. Their main goal is to address the worldwide lack of funding for agricultural projects. Kokonut helps farmers get the funds they need while creating opportunities for web3 communities by giving them access to perpetual natural assets. Kokonut uses a DAO framework for decision-making and allocating treasury funds. This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This episode is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises. In This Episode: 00:03 Gitcoin Climate Solutions 00:36 (chapters forthcoming)

Please meet Kennedy Ng'ang'a, Founder & CEO of Shamba, the Ecological Data Oracle & MRV Network. Based out of Nairobi, Kenya, Shamba is an ecological data oracle and Decentralized Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (dMRV) Network. Shamba is building a decentralized #MRV network to power #regenerativefinance (ReFi) and provides affordable MRV powered by web3. Their MRV solution enables smallholders to create carbon credits on their farms irrespective of their size. https://shamba.network/ This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This episode is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises. In This Episode: 00:03 Gitcoin Climate Solutions 00:36 (chapters forthcoming)

The Impact App (TIA) and Eco Labs' mission is to make Regeneration an Occupation, where anyone can make a living healing our planet and restoring ecosystems as a Regenerator. They are weaving together technologies to help Regenerators issue Ecological Assets at any scale. This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This episode is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises. In This Episode: 00:03 Gitcoin Climate Solutions 00:36 (chapters forthcoming) #regeneration #ecosystems

ReFiDAO is a founder-led startup community on a mission to accelerate impact for people and planet. TMO is joined today by #ReFi legend John Ellison @climateXcrypto. John is leading the #RegenerativeFinance movement by always asking: How do we transform an extractive capitalist system into a regenerative economy that can heal the earth? This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This episode is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises.

Today Sage from ReSci Network joins TMO. ReSci Network is leading ethical, ecosystem regeneration-centric Decentralized Science (#DeSci). They are focused on scientific collaboration for ecosystem #regeneration. This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This episode is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises. In This Episode: 00:03 Gitcoin Climate Solutions 00:36 (chapters forthcoming)

Kyle Smith from LexDAO joins TMO. LexDAO is a legal engineering guild. As a decentralized autonomous organization, LexDAO aims to provide a decentralized marketplace for legal services using blockchain technology. It aims to make legal services more affordable and accessible to individuals and businesses. LEX DAO also aims to create a community-driven platform for legal services, where users can contribute to the development of legal services and share in the governance of the platform. https://linktr.ee/lexdaogrant This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This episode is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises.  

This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. This segment is with Pranav Khanna of ReFi By South. ReFi by South is a community building project with a goal to localize and scale climate action - through technology and community organizing using regenerative finance (ReFi) in the global South. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This episode is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises. In This Episode: 00:03 Gitcoin Climate Solutions 00:36 (chapters forthcoming)

Today TMO speaks with Martijn Wilder Founder and CEO of Pollination, which is a specialist climate change investment and advisory firm, accelerating the transition to a net zero, nature positive future. Martijn is recognized as a global leader in climate law and investment and has advised governments and companies on innovative climate finance investments. Pollination along with HSBC and Climate Asset Management just raised $650M for #naturalcapital. The funds will invest in agriculture, forestry and environmental assets, while a nature-based carbon strategy will seek to create a pipeline of high-quality carbon credits for companies trying to reach net-zero emissions. This episode is part of the RWA x ReFi Report which is made possible by the Climate Collective (https://climatecollective.org) and brought to you by .basin (https://basin.global) In this episode: 00:00 Real World Assets for Regenerative Finance 01:36 climate justice, natural capital 01:51 recognized global leader in climate law #climatefinance #naturalcapital #biodiversityfinance 03:03 real estate and natural capital 
03:06 climate sprint - ecosystem services & co-benefits and carbon removal which resulted in the core benefits label 03:24 pollination name 05:12 investment platforms in nature space; we don't have any other choice at this point but to invest in nature, protect nature, conserve nature, restore nature
05:48 trillions of dollars into nature. 06:15 nature valuation 06:39 TNFD 06:57 biodiversity 07:27 carbon markets 07:36 nature and natural capital 08:15 nature-based activities (NbS; NCS); greenhouse gases GHG's 08:24 compliance markets v voluntary markets 08:54 payments for ecosystem services (PES) 9:18 additionality & permanence 11:03 trillions of dollars needed to restore nature 11:30 deforestation; biodiversity loss 12:03 the global south; least developed countries 
 12:45 fund the nature crisis; regenerative finance ReFi 13:09 Paulson Report; Financing for Nature 13:24 mass extinction crisis 
 13:30 Dasgupta Review: Economics of Biodiversity 13:39 we need trillions of dollars to invest in nature 14:18 the economics are just wrong 
14:27 legal mechanisms to drive investment into nature 14:33 put real value on nature; natural capital accounting 15:21 nature is not just a public good, it's a key part of the supply chain 15:27 Task Force for Nature Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and Task Force for Climate related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) 15:57 natural capital accounts 
 16:30 nature value; nature risk 16:57 natural capital reports; sustainability reports
17:30 Great Barrier Reef. 18:03 immediate costs v. Long term solutions 18:18 nitrogen and phosphate 
 18:28 natural capital markets, ecosystem markets 18:33 upstream or downstream 18:57 circular economy 19:06 landscape approach, 19:21 ecosystem approach; connectivity 20:00 agriculture, beef, ag tourism, mangroves, 20:24 One Earth bioregions 2020, bioregionalism, local currencies, natural capital backed currencies 21:21 water is a huge part of the carbon cycle, carbon tunnel vision 21:30 holistic lens, biodiversity, water quality, water quantity, habitat 21:39 nature incubator; emission reductions 22:51 nature-based carbon projects; Nature Based Solutions NbS; Natural Climate Solutions NCS 23:54 nature investment; nature value; nature credit; metric to measure biodiversity; watershed protection, species 
 24:24 nature baseline 24:30 nature offsets 26:57 invest in nature and restoration projects 27:06 nature itself is a public good 28:12 ReFi community or the regenerative finance community; crypto and blockchain 30:21 how do you measure that ton of nature? 30:39 gamification to fund on the ground protection 31:00 Metaverse to fund nature 
 31:30 MRV; ground truth 31:39 blockchain, legitimacy, trust, transparency 31:42 scope one, two, and three 32:09 IETA - International Emissions Trading 32:12 blockchain tokenization of carbon 33:36 land is real estate and carbon is real estate and ecosystems is real estate 34:00 real estate developments 34:06 buildings and embodied carbon; operational carbon 35:09 integrated development with biodiversity and nature 36:06 built environment carbon 
 36:33 cost of urban heat and urban heat islands 37:03 bushfires, wildfires, risk; climate resilience, climate adaptation 38:06 Navigating a Nature Positive Future 38:48 nature positive; nature risk; the critical importance of indigenous communities to nature
39:00 indigenous groups are the custodians of nature 39:27 nature positive; climate positive 41:45 natural capital 42:06 nature-loss problem: nature crisis 42:15 World Economic Forum (WEF): New Nature Economy 43:33 Collaboration & Cooperation are key https://pollinationgroup.com https://beta.basin.global/ .basin is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises.

This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for #climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This segment is with Ben West, Cause Round Lead, from Gitcoin. Gitcoin Grants is a community-led initiative that allows users and organizations to directly fund the development of their favorite open source projects and #publicgoods. The Gitcoin Program Alpha Round is a set of 3 Quadratic Funding grants rounds that will allocate a $1M total matching pool to 200 grantees working on Open Source, Ethereum Infrastructure, and Climate Solutions. The Climate Solutions Round features 40 climate projects from GR15 that were invited because they received the most support based on the number of unique contributors, and ten bundled use cases for the remaining GR15 projects working in Renewable Energy, Carbon Markets, Verification Infrastructure, Oceans & Forest, Agriculture, Community Engagement, Creative Works, Climate Research, Climate Advocacy & Activism, and Emerging Markets and Indigenous Communities. This episode is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises. In This Episode: 00:03 Gitcoin Climate Solutions 00:36 Round is funding $333,000 for #climate 00:39 matching funds for climate projects 01:27 climate grants and funding open source software
02:09 funding public goods 03:12 “if you haven't heard of Gitcoin, you're doing web3 wrong" 03:48 open source projects 04:33 grants platform 04:54 quadratic funding 05:24 funded $70 million for public goods 06:21 run by the Gitcoin DAO 07:27 UNICEF used Gitcoin Grants 09:42 empowering the wisdom of the crowd 10:09 trusting the community about how to allocate those funds 11:39 using #quadraticfunding to fund land restoration and conservation 13:45 grants round as a service 15:15 Renewable Energy, Carbon Markets, Verification Infrastructure, Oceans & Forest, Agriculture, Community Engagement, Creative Works, Climate Research, Climate Advocacy & Activism, and Emerging Markets and Indigenous Communities 16:57 coordination and cooperation 18:27 directing funds, resources, talent and energy to real on the ground climate projects 19:21 crypto and blockchain 19:57 carbon accounting or for supply chain 21:03 Gitcoin Passport
22:06 KYC, know your customer 24:15 120,000 people signed up for a Gitcoin passport 25:51 Snapshot 26:18 zero knowledge proof 
28:03 blockchain for climate and real world action 28:30 funding climate solutions 29:24 real people doing mangrove restoration and carbon removal and plastic pollution cleanup 31:45 how not to make mistakes in crypto 39:03 funding grants and voting with your Metamask wallet 
39:12 donations add up to large sums of money 39:18 Gitcoin testimonial

This episode is part of the Gitcoin Climate Series. Gitcoin is matching $333,000 for climate as part of the Gitcoin Alpha Round. Please support the guest's project by going to gitcoin.basin.global and adding all grants to your "ballot". Every donation helps no matter how small. With quadratic funding, it is not the $ amount that matters, it is the # of donors. Support your favorite climate project today! This segment is with Magenta from Bloom Network. Bloom is a cyber-physical social network that helps people find and participate in grassroots climate actions where they live. https://bloomnetwork.earth. Today, they are 30,000 people on the ground in 22 local Bloom hubs across 9 countries doing rapid climate repair and adaptation. This show is brought to you by .basin which is perpetual place-based climate and nature finance. .basin scales land, ecosystem, and carbon sink restoration and conservation to solve the climate, nature, and carbon crises. In This Episode: 00:03 Gitcoin Climate Solutions 00:36 Round is funding $333,000 for #climate 00:39 matching funds for climate projects 00:54 about Bloom Network 01:15 connecting. technology groups with ecological groups with social justice and new economy 01:45 blending blockchain and #ReFi 02:24 repair our local climates, our local watersheds, and make healthier social relationships 02:42 global organization, but with pods or nodes, polycentric 04:15 aligning incentives for #regeneration 04:51 CO LCA, cooperative law and the cooperative model 07:15 land remediation 07:30 holistic approach to real estate 8:18 hydrological cycle 09:48 regenerative finance model 10:03 cooperative patronage token 10:18 dividends 11:00 DAO’s, NFT’s, Platform Co-Op’s
17:00 restoration and land conservation 17:33 degraded, dilapidated, contaminated pieces of property