Photo: Carlos Moreira with Mario GarneroWISeKey Brazil partners with the U.N. Association-Brazil to launch the NetCarbonOffset Consortium at U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen.
A private-public sector partnership led by the United Nations Association-Brazil (UNA-Brazil), the International Organization for Secure Electronic Transactions, the Sustainable Development Forum and WISeKey Brazil towards the launch of the Digital Vote Against Carbon Pollution, a pledge for the use of digitally authenticated ID software for citizens around the world to signal their support for clean energy policies through the Internet.
“Such a proposal is essentially geared towards using the Internet and digital identification for greater popular support around commitments to offset carbon footprints. The final objective of this Brazilian project is, in line with your work on climate change, to support greenhouse gas reduction for a planet where clean energy is widely available”. said Carlos Moreira, Founder WISekey”.
As United Nations delegates and government negotiators from around the world meet in Copenhagen today to attempt to hammer greater commitments of resources from developed countries in the fight against damages to our planet brought about by climate change, this Brazilian-Swiss private-public sector partnership promises to bring in popular support to help improve the fate of regions seriously threatened by the forces of climate change, like the Amazon. The project signals a new leadership model to tackle global climate change that may be worth replicating in other ecosystems around the world “ said Mario Ganero, President of the United Nations Association-Brazil (UNA-Brazil)
The summit in Copenhagen will be a great opportunity for delegates to agree on reforms to the US$33 billion trade in carbon offsets. We would welcome an agreement on major reforms that include the scaling up of an existing Kyoto framework which rewards clean energy projects in developing nations like ours. A new deal to pay tropical countries tens of billions of dollars to preserve their forests should also be a much sought-after outcome.
For more information please visit the site of the NetCarbonOffset Consortium at : http://www.netcarbonoffset.com