Hack4Climate at COP23

Climate change is the world’s biggest challenge. Blockchain holds disruptive innovation potential. #Hack4Climate brings the two together. The Connect4Climate team visited the 24-hour Hackathon at COP23 and talked to project leader Nick Beglinger as well as some of the participants to find out why this new technology has unique potential to move climate action forward. #Uniting4Climate

 

Additional footage contributed by Matthias Sabelhaus and Marcus Meyer. More of their work can be seen by visiting matthias-sabelhaus.de and marcusmeyer.co.uk.

 

 

At the UN Climate Change Conference this year (COP23, from 6 to 17 November) nations of the world will meet to advance the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement and achieve progress on its implementation guidelines.

 

The conference, officially referred as COP 23/ CMP 13/ CMA 1-2, take place in Bonn, Germany, hosted by the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and presided over by Fiji. The UNFCCC secretariat and the Government of Fiji are closely working with the Government of Germany, the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Bonn to ensure a dynamic and successful Conference.