CRC Press The Green Crypto Handbook: Blockchain for Sustainability Professionals

The Green Crypto Handbook is a practical guide exploring how blockchain can address the $11 trillion climate finance gap through more transparent, accountable green asset systems. Using the Environmental Finance Stack framework, it maps green finance layers from environmental measurement to market dynamics, showing where blockchain can redesign processes for better environmental outcomes. Drawing on over a decade of real-world experience with green blockchain initiatives, the book combines environmental science, financial innovation, and digital governance insights and offers structured methodology for evaluating blockchain's role in making green systems more credible and equitable. Features Introduces the Environmental Finance Stack framework to analyze green finance system layers systematically. Explains how tokenized green assets work, what governance challenges regenerative finance must overcome, and how blockchain technologies can be harnessed. Provides real-world case studies from Web3 and ReFi projects like Regen Network translating theory into practice through detailed, practitioner-informed examples. Delivers practitioner insights from authors with nearly a decade of field experience and access to global sustainability networks. Bridges blockchain and environmental governance with academic rigor while maintaining accessibility. This book is for professionals and researchers working at the intersection of environmental sustainability and blockchain. It’s also an excellent resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who are familiar with sustainability or blockchain, and taking courses in environmental governance, political economy, ecological economics, and digital innovation; as well as environmental activists, sustainability consultants, innovation strategists, and general readers interested in climate solutions and the evolution of decentralized technologies.