Blockchain prototype creates marketplace for biodiversity investment and protection
by Ben Poole
A newly developed blockchain prototype could support sustainable development, with a wide-range of potential benefits for users.
Environment, Social, Governance
Background
Sustainable and green strategies have never been more important to corporate financial health. In the Internet age, when reputations can be built and ruined at viral speed, companies are under more…
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