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Ripple (XRP) Committed to the Crypto Climate Accord (CCA) To Provide for Sustainability

With cryptocurrency becoming mainstream, to provide for a long-term future together sustainability practices are very important.  Major Fintech companies like PayPal, Visa, Tesla, and several others leverage this technology.  This in turn has led to increased energy consumption to already unsustainable levels. To break even, the industry has a choice to make.  Either continue down the unsustainable path to be doomed or work together and reduce the collective environmental impact.

Decarbonizing public blockchains is about bringing down the carbon footprint.  In2020, Ripple partnered with Energy Web (EW) and the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) in their efforts to decarbonize public blockchains beginning with the XRP ledger. Further, Ripple has pledged to achieve carbon net-zero by 2030 or sooner.

Ripple is committed to the Crypto Climate Accord (CCA), which is a new initiative organized by EW, RMI, and the Alliance for Innovation Regulation (AIR) to ensure that the cryptocurrency industry is 100% renewable.

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Ripple will also be joining more than 20 supporters from different industries and blockchains, which consists of the United Nations, CoinShares, Compass Mining, the XRP Ledger Foundation, and ConsenSys to provide for sustainability and scalability, thus creating value for all.

The cryptocurrency market cap is at $2 trillion, which is twice the previous all-time high that was reached about three months ago, thus underscoring how quickly this industry is growing.

The growth of the cryptocurrency industry comes at a cost.  The damages caused by climate change cover for nearly 3% of GDP by 2060. The challenge to sustain global financial prosperity without compromising on the environment is a thing to be considered.

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Emissions reduction and renewable energy use are steps to ensure progress in the right direction.

The Paris Climate Accord, fintech, and crypto industry leaders have partnered to set the objectives to ensure sustainability.

Key objectives include: “Enable all of the world’s blockchains to be powered by 100% renewables by the 2025 UNFCCC COP Conference; Develop an open-source accounting standard for measuring emissions from the cryptocurrency industry; Achieve net-zero emissions for the entire crypto industry, including all business operations beyond blockchain and retroactive emissions by 2040.”

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Ripple’s journey in ensuring sustainability consists of recognition of financial technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrency to position financial empowerment without compromising on the sustainable future. Thus, providing for the critical years of commitment in the process of cryptocurrency adoption. Reverse engineering the characteristic of the technology after progress has been achieved can be tricking and sustainability will, in turn, have to wait longer.  Therefore, Ripple is leading the effort and they feel it is time to solve the problem now.

Ripple is committed to progressing this effort by a strategic partnership with organizations like Rocky Mountain Institute, Energy Web, and AIR, eventually contributing to policy ideas and financing for innovations to help achieve the long-term objectives of Accord.

The attempt is expected to save the global economy an estimated $26 trillion by 2030, contributing to a robust and sustainable global financial system leading to a sustainable world.

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