Public Crypto BLOG: Earth Token - Transform the Natural Capital Asset Market

The Natural Asset Exchange blockchain platform and EARTH (WEBSITE) Token cryptocurrency provides a unique opportunity to truly transform the Natural Capital Asset market, by creating a Natural Asset Marketplace that allows all stakeholders in the climate value chain to participate.

Climate change poses a major risk to the global economy, affecting the wealth and prosperity of all citizens and nations around the world. It will have significant impact on resource availability, energy pricing, infrastructure vulnerability and company valuations. Climate change adaptation requires our collective, and urgent intervention, to ensure future generations are left with a sustainable planet.

Natural Capital is the world's stock of natural resources. The untapped and undervalued. Natural Capital asset class is estimated to be worth in excess of USD $120 trillion, yet no transparent mechanism exists to connect producers of Natural Assets with business, consumers, or IoT devices.

Establishment of the Natural Asset Exchange blockchain platform with EARTH Token as the settlement mechanism currency will :

Provide a free, open, transparent and universally accessible platform connecting producers of Natural
Assets with buyers
Eliminate fraud and double counting of Natural Assets
Provide sellers with flexible pricing mechanisms
Reduce complexity related to fiat currency exchange rates
Eliminate registration fees for both buyers and sellers
Eliminate the need for external 3rd party registries for buyers and sellers
Eliminate the requirement for buyers to fund escrow accounts
Eliminate minimum transaction volumes
Vastly reduce transaction fees
Reduce lead times through simultaneous fulfilment & settlement
Enable embedding of Natural Assets directly into products and/or services
Enable all to invest in Natural Asset projects, creating sustainable, risk-adjusted, long-term returns for all participants

The hotel deducts the emissions reduction from their overall emissions, by association to the transaction, whilst the guest receives the actual carbon asset that is used to mitigate their environmental impact, proportional to their number of 'room night' stays. When implementing our environmental impact mitigation solution, we transfer an emissions mitigating Carbon Asset from the native Carbon Asset source wallet address, to a wallet address owned by the guest. This provides irrefutable proof of environmental impact mitigation.

For our clients in the business-to-business (B2B) market, the above embedded environmental impact mitigation activity has proven to be a distinct differentiator enabling our clients to win new contracts and grow market share.

Carbon Mitigation

The impactChoice Carbon Mitigation Solution is an elegant approach to compensating for negative environmental impact. It works by apportioning environmental impact mitigation mechanisms, and costs, to predetermined business metrics, which are directly linked with product, and service delivery, cost of sales models.

The value proposition and benefits of our proven emissions mitigation solution can therefore be summarised below.

Marketing Benefits :

Enables the marketing and sales of a 'climate neutral' guest experience
Includes annual Greenhouse Gas emissions inventory audits (GHG Protocol & HCMI), and provides inputs for GRI sustainable development reporting & sustainable tourism certifications
Provides individual and corporate guests with tangible Carbon Assets as irrefutable proof of environmental impact mitigation
Creates 'environmental touch points' with guests that can be leveraged on social media channels

Environment & Technical Benefits :

Provides the foundation for a long-term environmental sustainability strategy that results in immediate reduction of emissions
A credible and tangible Carbon Asset management program built on blockchain / distributed ledger technology
An Energy Management System which enables energy usage monitoring and optimization
Access to an ISO 14001 compliant Environmental Management System is currently under development

The impactChoice Climate Neutral Fuel solution is a technically proven, turnkey approach to fuel management that increases the operational efficiency of combustion equipment assets, resulting in an overall improvement in fuel consumption, reduced fuel costs and mitigation of harmful emissions associated with the combustion of fuel in vehicles, generators and other combustion assets vital to business and industry.

Benefits :

Reduced emissions during the combustion process and avoided emissions by using less fuel through deployment of an EPA registered combustion process enhancing fuel catalyst
Residual emissions mitigation and reduction in environmental impact through the purchase of Natural Assets via the Natural Asset Exchange - based on actual fuel volume consumed
Reduced overall cost of fuel purchases
Results in an on-going Net Financial Benefit of 5% or more

The Syngas produced by this gasification process is a clean, dry, flexible fuel which can be :

Burned to create heat and electricity,
Passed through any of several different catalysts to produce fluids such as alcohols and transportation fuels, including clean burning diesel,
Used to supply pure hydrogen gas for multiple applications.

impactChoice has partnered with TCG Projects to provide the Carbon Mitigation Solution described above to mitigate the actual emissions produced during the process, resulting in climate neutral energy products, when combined with our Carbon Mitigation Solution.

Waste-to-Energy solutions

Waste-to-energy is the process of generating energy from the primary treatment of waste materials, and is a form of energy recovery. TCG Projects (Pty) Ltd (tcgprojects.co.za), a strategic business partner, provides gasification plants capable of converting any carbon-containing feedstock such as biomass, coal, petroleum coke, or municipal solid waste into synthetic gas (Syngas), consisting primarily of hydrogen (H) and carbon monoxide (CO).