The Open Offsets Directory

The voluntary carbon offsets market has long been held back by a lack of transparency.  We believe the solution is a decentralized data common built with blockchain that encourages market participants to share their data.

A prototype of this concept using live data is now available at opentaps.org/offsets

If you’re involved with the offsets market, please join our study as an expert.  Start by completing this online questionnaire, and let us know if you’re available to be interviewed.

From Energy to Emissions

This demo shows how we’re taking utility bills from Green Button XML and storing them on a permissioned data channel with Hyperledger Fabric.

This is an implementation of the audited emissions data channel, the first part of our Operating System for Climate Action.

To try it yourself, see our blockchain carbon accounting project on Github.

 

Emissions Tokens on Blockchain

Take a look at an emissions tokens network, which allows emissions auditors, REC dealers, emissions offsets dealers, and consumers to tract emissions and trade offsets on an Ethereum blockchain.

This is an implementation of the emissions tokens network, the second part of our Operating System for Climate Action.

Click here to read more, or here for a tutorial on how we built it.

Open Source Energy Management

Check out our videos to learn more about opentaps SEAS and our open source business model for energy.  

See the documentation on how to install, use, deploy, and develop with opentaps SEAS yourself.

Follow our blog for the latest news and articles about opentaps.

M&V Model Chart Example

Make M&V Believable Again

opentaps brings together data from utility meter and building equipment in one platform.  Advanced statistical models are included with opentaps and amazingly easy to build.
 
The result: Building managers, ESCO developers, and contractors all have access to the same data and models.  They can all see building-level energy use and detailed equipment performance to understand and verify energy savings.
 
By making both data and software openly available, M&V can bring together all parties and achieve greater energy efficiency, instead of being a source of disagreement and mistrust.  Read more about how we’re doing it.

Statistics of Voluntary Carbon Offsets in 2020

What does the voluntary carbon offsets market really look like? Here are some key statistics of the voluntary carbon offsets in 2020 with The Open Offsets Directory, using data from the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project. Offsets Issued and Retired by Year First, let’s take a look at the big trends: total amount of voluntary offsets […]

A Decentralized, Open Source Solution for Voluntary Carbon Offsets

The voluntary carbon offsets market is a critical part of our solution for climate change. It is a global marketplace where companies and individuals could invest in climate solutions that are vetted by independent standards organizations, and its very existence testifies both to a deep commitment to climate action and a potential to link finance […]

Tutorial: How to Customize and Deploy Compound DAO

We all want an open, inclusive community to decide on climate-related questions such as: Is a carbon offset legitimate? Is a company realling taking positive climate action? Is a product really green? Yet in the age of social media, it’s hard to know whether people who write reviews have actually bought a product, or even […]

Tutorial: Building an Ethereum dApp using React.js, web3Modal, ethers, HardHat

Background This tutorial explains how to build a complete Ethereum dApp using React.js, web3Modal, ethers, and Hardhat. The dApp we built here is an open source carbon emissions trading application in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that cause climate change. In this dApp, emissions auditors can issue tokens of emissions to individuals and organizations, who could […]

For more information about opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM, please click here.