Under the theme “Cooperation in a Fragmented World”, the Davos Forum, in Switzerland, should bring together 2,700 international representations from 130 countries between Monday (16) and Friday (20), which includes the presence of 52 Heads of State and Government. . More than just a geopolitical and cultural meeting of peoples, the World Economic Forum must address a weak macroeconomy, a world divided by constant war, hunger, inflation, recession and under the growing threat of deforestation, pollution and global warming.
In this context, to offer solutions that can help the planet survive, blockchain technology, which serves as the basis for cryptocurrencies, should be prominent in Davos due to the participation of the co-founder of the Brazilian Green Mining company, Rodrigo Oliveira, which is expected to be shared in two sessions. For the forum they will be moved online through the official platform of the event, according to information from Uol.
Green Mining was founded in 2013 by Oliveira, Adriano Ferreira and Leandro Metropolo In 2013, Green Mining, today accelerated by Ambev, was born from a program aimed at tracing construction waste, which after five years transformed into a system focused on reverse tracing Packaging through the blockchain in order. to return them to the production cycle.
According to the company, Green Mining has already collected 5.18 million kilograms of packaging and prevented 863,440 kilograms of carbon dioxide from being sent into the atmosphere, which, according to the startup, is done through the work of formal contract collectors and through an algorithm that maps post-consumer waste generation points. So that reception centers (hubs) are installed in these locations to store the collected materials. Next, the material is weighed and every step of the process is recorded on a blockchain developed by Green Mining.
The initiative, implemented at sites in São Paulo (SP), Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and Brasilia (DF), seems to have pleased the market, since the system, among other awards, has won ClimaLaunhpad, considered the world’s largest competition for Green business ideas, promoted since 2018 in Brazil through the innovation platform Claim Ventures. In 2021, Green Mining ranked in the top 10 in the CleanTechs category and in the CleanTechs category in 2022.
The blockchain also monitors Brazilian farmers who are getting credit through the technology. What is going on with CreDA, a platform in the decentralized finance (DeFi) branch for blockchain lending solutions, as reported by Cointelegraph Brasil.
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