sustainability
Carbon-negative. Eco-friendly by design.
Blockchain is increasingly being used to advance sustainability goals, from tracking carbon emissions to promoting ethical sourcing and renewable energy. Hedera is ideal for climate and ESG-related use cases due to its low environmental footprint, enterprise-grade infrastructure, and decentralized governance.
a balance sheet for our planet
Enabling fair carbon markets with trust and transparency
As climate markets grow, so do risks of greenwashing, fraud, and data manipulation. Hedera, through tools like Guardian, provides a much-needed trust layer.
For this market to mature with integrity, accurate, granular data must be logged and accessed without corruption or collusion. Guardian brings together tamper-proof consensus with a dMRV, enabling multi-party workflows that lead to verifiable, tokenized outcomes.
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Who can benefit from Hedera for sustainability?
Organizations, enterprises, companies, and governments across industries are advancing sustainability by leveraging DLT. From carbon markets to supply chains, Hedera provides low-carbon infrastructure for climate-friendly innovation at scale.
Carbon credit registries and marketplaces
Digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (dMRV)
ESG data reporting and ratings
Supply chain sustainability
Green bonds and impact tokens
Streamline the issuance and tracking of green bonds and impact-linked financial instruments to ensure fund transparency, reduce issuance and compliance costs, and attract more institutional investors.
Tokenized carbon credits
Tokenize carbon credits or offsets to make them transparent, traceable, and tradeable on-chain. Prevent double counting and fraud while enabling real-time auditing of emissions reductions.
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Leading institutions rely on Hedera for sustainability
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Negative carbon footprint
Hedera is committed to carbon-negative operations. Offsets are purchased quarterly based on assessments determined by third-party provider Terrapass.
Hedera is purpose-built for climate solutions that require scale, trust, and low environmental impact
Carbon-negative by default
Hedera uses only 0.00017 kWh per transaction, far less than proof-of-work blockchains. Hedera Council offsets more carbon than the network produces, making the entire network carbon-negative.
Transparent and auditable
Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) enables immutable, time-stamped logs of emissions data, supply chain activity, and ESG performance. Organizations can prove sustainability claims without exposing sensitive data.
Scalability for real-world use
Hedera supports over 10,000 transactions per second with finality in seconds. It’s built to handle high volume, real-time data from IoT sensors, satellite feeds, and global supply chains.
Low and predictable costs
Transaction fees stay under $0.001 USD. This enables long-term data recording for carbon offsets, ESG score changes, or audits without high operational costs. Fees are stable and predictable, critical for nonprofits or budget-conscious organizations.
Enterprise governance for added trust
Hedera is governed by a Council of trusted organizations across sectors. This model builds confidence among environmental NGOs, public-private partnerships, and governments.
Aligned with global standards
Solutions on Hedera support compliance with international frameworks like the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), GHG Protocol, and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
Sustainability solutions built on Hedera
DOVU is building data-backed regenerative finance (ReFi) infrastructure on Hedera. Their platform supports the creation and management of carbon credits, linking verifiable environmental data to on-chain assets that can be transparently tracked, exchanged, and retired. This helps drive real value into climate action and brings trust to carbon offset markets.
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Trusted for the real world
By partnering with ALLCOT and using Hedera Guardian as our chain of record, we’re able to digitize climate solutions and scale trust, transparency, and impact.
Mandy Rambharos
CEO
Through our B4ECarbon platform — a secure, auditable, and decentralized dMRV solution — we are setting a new benchmark for sustainability data across the energy value chain. Together with Hedera, we are committed to raising industry standards, eliminating greenwashing risks, and delivering trusted sustainability outcomes that our stakeholders and communities can rely on.
Rebecca Hofmann
CEO
Raphaël de Ry
Co-founder and CEO