Deadline: 15 August
The Climate Impact Community Hub would focus on providing space and time for stakeholders to meet together in person about ongoing subjects of research and collaboration. Filecoin Green, Celo and Toucan welcome the opportunity to take our learnings from organizing recurring events like Sustainable Blockchain Summit, Celo Connect Salon, and Re:Generate and to create an inclusive, accessible and vibrant connection point in the craziness of DevCon. We're excited to be joined in this proposal by emerging ReFi pals Hyphen, Astral and disCarbon, and hope to combine forces with other proposers as it mutually benefits all of us.
Outline what you will offer to the Devcon attendees; how you will make best use of the space
Rough outline of your Community Hubs program and planned “opening hours” of your Community Hub
The Climate Impact community hub encourages tying together threads being explored across SBS, Celo Connect, Re:Generate and other community events across ETH conferences and beyond. We seek to foster collaboration within and across ReFi, social impact and public good projects, in particular creating space to bring in more diverse perspectives to ensure that standards, practices and far-reaching decisions our community makes are truly transparent and open-source.
Opening hours — approximately 10 am - 6 pm throughout DevCon, but may vary as each day's schedule comes together.
Workshops
Merge 4 Climate
Green Data Standards
Creating standards and practices around these datasets, and the sources from which they emerge, is a hard problem for the industry that has proven to challenge COP delegates. In workshops initiating during Berlin Blockchain Week and extending into DevCon, this coalition around Green Data Standards hopes to bring in community perspectives on how to standardize these datasets and assess quality of sources. Sourcing and categorizing this data, and making it accessible to builders on the protocol level, is essential to legitimizing alternative verification and self-regulation solutions in our industry. We plan to develop and begin iterating on a framework for this together.
Carbon Emission Estimation and Methodology
By tying together the efforts outlined in DIP-1, DIP-12 and DIP-17, disCarbon and Toucan are working to offset participant involvement in DevCon VI. But, as Toucan discovered through our experience offsetting ETH Amsterdam and ETH Barcelona, determining both emission calculations and offsetting procedure open complex cans of worms.
In this workshop, we discuss how to derive emission footprints for single and multi-day events, such as Devcon VI, including how to estimate the participant’s transport to the event location from their home city and country. Workshop participants will have the chance to use and compare various online tools available that can assist with event and flight emission estimates, after which we can discuss their ease-of-use, perceived accuracy and effectiveness. Subsequently, we will explain and discuss the methodologies used in these estimation tools and which parameters and event metrics are important to arrive at a reasonable emission estimate. In particular, we will discuss which method and parameters were used to arrive at Devcon VI’s carbon footprint.
Finally, we will discuss which standards are available for emission estimation and whether they can provide best practices for users. We hope that this can provide solid groundwork for a replicable, iterative offsetting playbook for future use.
Collaboration Station
Collective Worldbuilding/LARPing
All are welcome and encouraged to contribute to all of these workshops, and submit their own!
List of dedicated people that will organise, oversee and be responsible for the Community Hub
List of equipment/production needs (see what’s possible in the description above)
Some pics of past experiences created by these teams:
