Blockchain for Social Impact
summary
Conference-backed initiative awards $150,000 grant to Yale Open Lab to prototype open-source blockchain tools for environmental accounting, focusing on carbon tracking and accountability. Plan centers on multi-stakeholder design sprints, fast prototyping, and integrating IoT-verified emissions records with smart contracts to create a single immutable ledger tied to policy pledges. Speakers cite a remaining 600 Gt carbon budget and ~40 Gt/year emissions (burning the budget in ~15 years) as the urgent use case driving technical and governance choices.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Blockchain social impact intro
- 1:51Social Alpha Foundation mission
- 4:46Blockchain for environmental solutions
- 6:55Climate urgency and carbon accounting
- 12:13Yale’s Open Lab blockchain
- 13:39Adoption challenges in social impact
- 18:44User view on climate urgency
- 21:55Social Alpha’s environmental focus
- 24:46Grant-making process at Social Alpha
- 27:36Call to action for philanthropists
- 30:44Closing remarks
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