[GG21 Community Round Proposal] CCN - Climate Solutions Round

[mars]

Feedback about the wording of the eligibility criteria, I think it should be improved.

@jon-spark-eco

The proposal should explicitly outline how this project will help reduce GHGs or is an important core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions.

That requirement made me not apply in one of the previous rounds.

It was a climate project, but it wasn’t reducing GHGs directly and it wasn’t part of important core infrastructure.

@mars

I think it is too specific:

• help reduce GHGs
• core infrastructure for web3

Here are some climate solutions that do not fit in the definition above:

• Awareness
• Education
• Community / movement / network building
• Climate adaptation
• Climate mitigation

For example - protecting a village in Tuvalu by building a sea wall - definitely a climate solution but it does NOT reduce GHGs and it is NOT core infrastructure for web3. If the same village was protected by mangrove forest to prevent erosion - now one could argue that it will reduce GHGs.

Or maybe sea wall made of concrete does indeed reduce GHGs? No need to move housing that would require even more CO2? Debatable, can be easily fixed by better eligibility criteria, including better definition of “should” according to RFC 2119.