1st Edition

The Green Crypto Handbook Blockchain for Sustainability Professionals

By Patrick Rawson, Louise Borreani Copyright 2027
272 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

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.... Read more

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.

Biography

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.