{"id":93102,"date":"2019-07-03T22:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T05:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/blockchain-will-make-sure-green-pledges-arent-just-greenwash-a-new-initiative"},"modified":"2019-07-03T22:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T05:02:30","slug":"blockchain-will-make-sure-green-pledges-arent-just-greenwash-a-new-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/blockchain-will-make-sure-green-pledges-arent-just-greenwash-a-new-initiative","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain will make sure green pledges aren\u2019t just greenwash: a new initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blockchain-will-make-sure-green-pledges-arent-just-greenwash-a-new-initiative3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blockchain will make sure green pledges aren\u2019t just green wash.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When a country or a company makes a promise to reduce carbon emissions, respect fishing quotas or cut toxic output, how can we be sure they\u2019ll keep their word?<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, it\u2019s often extremely hard. But a new initiative \u2014 Global Ledger \u2014 led by a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.younggloballeaders.org\/\">World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders<\/a> (YGLs) aims to change that.<\/p>\n<p>Using data from a nearly-infinite array of observation devices \u2014 drones, cameras, nano-satellites and soon-to-be-ubiquitous Internet of Things applications \u2014 reliable and unbiased information can be gathered and then stored using blockchain technology, which ensures data is verified and almost impossible to manipulate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blockchain will make sure green pledges aren\u2019t just green wash. When a country or a company makes a promise to reduce carbon emissions, respect fishing quotas or cut toxic output, how can we be sure they\u2019ll keep their word? The truth is, it\u2019s often extremely hard. But a new initiative \u2014 Global Ledger \u2014 led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1488,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-drones","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}