The Hemp Blockchain, Inc. Holds Carbon Protocol Initiative Summit

SALT LAKE CITY, June 30, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Hemp Blockchain, Inc., the corporate constructing superior cloud-based options to speed up the expansion of the economic hemp trade and improve the quantity and high quality of carbon offset credit obtainable to firms searching for to stability their CO2 emissions, at present introduced that it held its first Summit in Aspen, CO to collaborate with companions and trade consultants on “The Carbon Protocol Initiative.” The assembly was organized by The Hemp Blockchain with members within the environmental, industrial hemp and knowledge expertise industries.

The Carbon Protocol Initiative is a collaborative effort to establish and create new requirements and protocols for the accounting and transparency of web carbon offset credit for the Industrial Hemp trade. Industrial hemp is a quickly rising trade pushed by a separate crop from its organic family members that produce THC-based hashish merchandise because it incorporates lower than 0.3% THC by dry weight. Industrial hemp could be processed into over 50,000 makes use of, together with fuels, plastics, graphene, solvents, constructing supplies, meals, and medicines, and can be a strong software within the international effort to fight local weather change as a result of an acre of hemp can probably sequester as a lot or extra carbon as an acre of rainforest. Consequently, it’s a promising supply of carbon offset credit that can be utilized by firms to stability their carbon emissions CO2 so as to meet their CSR and ESG commitments. The Carbon Protocol will advance the economic hemp trade’s efforts to seize all probably the most vital information factors all through the rising and processing lifecycle, leading to a extremely correct and trusted carbon offset credit score, with each sequestration and emissions recorded on The Hemp Blockchain.

“I can consider no extra essential automobile to maintain farmers farming and farmland farmable than the quantification and monetization of carbon credit and this blockchain expertise is that automobile,” stated Iain Ward, licensed NRCS Technical Service Supplier/Conservation Planner and summit participant. “Farmers will change their rising practices if it makes widespread and financial sense to take action. This expertise does each.”

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“Local weather and digitization ought to be a high funding within the years to come back; The Hemp Blockchain and Carbon Protocol Initiative are contributions to the way forward for the planet. Creating a real carbon-neutral credit score with blockchain will carry sharp verification and transparency to the market and making it as an financial incentive for hemp farmers is an effective way to expedite the adoption of hemp into international industrial merchandise, stated Steve Prosniewski, an trade knowledgeable and summit participant. “It’s a modern-capitalist method to accelerating the decoupling from fossil fuels and decreasing international emissions. The planet is altering at a quick clip, we have to sustain.”

“The Summit enabled us to make essential strides towards answering a monumental query pertaining to the way forward for our planet – how can we help true and clear carbon offset credit that decrease the chance for fraud by way of using blockchain expertise,” stated Dan Higbee, President and CEO of The Hemp Blockchain. “Now free of restrictive federal regulation, industrial hemp is poised to turn into a significant component in renewable vitality, regenerative agriculture, human well being and lots of different areas, and the income from carbon offset credit supplies a powerful added incentive to develop industrial hemp. The Hemp Blockchain is constructing a vital piece of the digital infrastructure that can allow environment friendly and trusted transactions throughout all the trade.”

About The Hemp Blockchain, Inc.

Hemp Blockchain, Inc. is constructing superior cloud-based options to speed up the expansion of the economic hemp trade. With deliberate availability in late 2021, The Hemp Blockchain platform and purposes will “leapfrog” present options in an agriculture sector with important development prospects that’s strategically essential for a number of causes, together with agricultural sustainability and carbon sequestration and the quickly rising want for carbon offset credit. For extra data, please go to www.thehempblockchain.com.

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