The Green Crypto Handbook

Blockchain for Sustainability Professionals
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-25893-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The Green Crypto Handbook is a practical guide exploring how blockchain can address the $11 trillion climate finance gap through more transparent, accountable green asset systems. Using the Environmental Finance Stack framework, it maps green finance layers from environmental measurement to market dynamics, showing where blockchain can redesign processes for better environmental outcomes. Drawing on over a decade of real-world experience with green blockchain initiatives, the book combines environmental science, financial innovation, and digital governance insights and offers structured methodology for evaluating blockchain's role in making green systems more credible and equitable.

Features

- Introduces the Environmental Finance Stack framework to analyze green finance system layers systematically.

- Explains how tokenized green assets work, what governance challenges regenerative finance must overcome, and how blockchain technologies can be harnessed.

- Provides real-world case studies from Web3 and ReFi projects like Regen Network translating theory into practice through detailed, practitioner-informed examples.

- Delivers practitioner insights from authors with nearly a decade of field experience and access to global sustainability networks.

- Bridges blockchain and environmental governance with academic rigor while maintaining accessibility.

This book is for professionals and researchers working at the intersection of environmental sustainability and blockchain. It’s also an excellent resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who are familiar with sustainability or blockchain, and taking courses in environmental governance, political economy, ecological economics, and digital innovation; as well as environmental activists, sustainability consultants, innovation strategists, and general readers interested in climate solutions and the evolution of decentralized technologies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rawson, Patrick

Borreani, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction. 2. The Underlying Material Reality: Scientific Observation Technologies and Their Relationship to Environmental Accounting. 3. Data Layer: Blockchain's Digital Twin. 4. Institution Layer: Structuring Sustainable DAO Governance. 5. Protocol Layer: Design Methods for Green Crypto-Asset Production. 6. Asset Layer: Properties, Functions, and Types of Green Digital Assets. 7. Market Layer: Blockchain Infrastructures and Opportunities in Green Cryptomarkets.

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Rawson is co-founder of Ecofrontiers, and a specialist in blockchain systems and institutional design with over 8 years of experience. He previously co-founded Curve Labs, where he contributed to major green crypto projects like Toucan Protocol, Celo, and the Kolektivo Framework, for which he co-authored the Whitepaper. With a background in international relations from George Washington University, and award-winning work as an art director, Patrick combines technical expertise with creative insight to advance blockchain-enabled environmental governance.

Louise Borreani is co-founder of Ecofrontiers, and a green finance researcher focused on blockchain-enabled environmental governance. She holds an MS in Environmental Policy from Sciences Po Paris and dual bachelor’s degrees in political science from Sciences Po Paris and Freie Universität Berlin. Previously, at Curve Labs, she contributed groundbreaking research and publications on Web3 regenerative finance, leading the development of decentralized governance tools for regenerative economies.