I originally published this article in Spanish in Gk.City. If you prefer to read it in the original Spanish, click here. If the purpose of this blog series is to argue that crypto is an important ingredient in helping carbon markets work in order to save the environment, we must…

In what follows I describe how carbon markets can help pull the planet back from the brink of environmental collapse, but in their current manifestation, they’re deeply flawed. The field of crypto, taking advantage of blockchain technology, can help solve many of the Carbon markets’ most pressing problems. By way…

I started this blog when I was an enthusiast of carbon markets and before I was a practitioner. I have now spent a fair amount of time working within the forest carbon industry, and my opinions on many matters have shifted. First, the planet is at a tipping point. As…

By Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo Please note that the opinions expressed here are my own and may not represent the views of my employer. I’ve been absent from this space lately because of travel. Specifically, I was in the United States building content for a forest carbon project that seeks to convert…

By Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo As is clear from the name of this blog, I see value in applying blockchain technology to carbon markets. If you’d like to receive my weekly newsletter about crypto, climate, and carbon, please sign up to my substack here. Having said that, there are a lot of…

by Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo At this point, we we have all of the data required to understand the dire consequences that await us if we do not take immediate actions to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and stabilize the global temperature. Many environmentalists see carbon offsets as…

By Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo In a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, the weekly half-hour HBO show designed to expose fraud and injustice with a side dish of humor, the comedian John Oliver takes on the topic of carbon offsets. In his exposé, he gets many of the details right and…

By Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo One of the exciting parts of participating in the development of an entirely new industry like voluntary carbon markets is that there continues to be a lot of philosophical debate about basic concepts. In other words, we’ve yet to manufacture consent, as Chomsky would say, around a…

By Matthew Carpenter-Arévalo I recently attended a crypto conference alongside many actors in the regenerative finance space. Conferences always stretch my ambivert tendencies: I find it exhausting to introduce myself to people, repeat my story, and elbow my way into conversations amongst strangers. Nevertheless, the value in attending conferences is…