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Working Paper

Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets: A Market-Based Mechanism for Corporates to Meet Their Net-Zero Commitments

October 04, 2024
In this working paper, Chakravorti, Cook, DeAlto, and Rioux discuss how to scale voluntary carbon markets to enable us to meet our climate goals. Today, corporates are facing increasing pressure to make net-zero commitments whereby their residual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are completely offset. By purchasing offsets in voluntary carbon...
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New Working Paper Explores Policies to Scale Voluntary Carbon Markets

October 04, 2024
Based on interviews with market participants and our own research, Chakravorti, Cook, DeAlto and Rioux make several recommendations to improve transparency, efficiency, and trust in VCMs. Today, corporates are facing increasing pressure to make net-zero commitments whereby their residual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are completely offset. By purchasing offsets in...
Incumbents Disruptors

Unlocking Capital for Climate Projects

September 25, 2024
In this blog, Chakravorti discusses voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) and their potentially important role to enable us to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Carbon offsets allow corporates to negate their residual greenhouse gas emissions including indirect emissions in corporates upstream and downstream value chain, commonly referred to as...
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Chakravorti Presents at OCC

February 14, 2024
Chakravorti was invited to present his paper with Jeff Allen, Santiago Carbo, Francisco Rodriquez, and Oya Ardic at the OCC.
News

Chakravorti, Carbo, and Rodriguez Participated on Recently Published World Bank Study

May 19, 2022
Chakravorti and Chakra Advisors' Global Advisory Board members, Carbo and Rodriguez were key contributors to the recently published World Bank study on Incentives for Electronic Payment Acceptance.
News

Chakravorti Speaks at FinTech: Innovation, Inclusion, and Risks Conference at San Francisco State University

May 13, 2022
Chakravorti speaks at CAFIN at UC Santa Cruz and Lam-Larsen FinTech Initiative at Lam Family College of Business, San Francisco State University joint conference on FinTech.
News

Chakravorti Participates on CAREC High-Level Panel on COVID-19 Pandemic and Financial Inclusion

July 01, 2021
In his role as Chief Economist at Ripple, Bob Chakravorti participated on a high-level virtual panel to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and financial inclusion sponsored by CAREC and Astana International Finance Center.
Presentation

Cryptocurrency

December 17, 2019
As part of training of Indian senior bankers, the National Institute of Bank Management located in Pune, India, invited Bob Chakravorti to teach three courses. This course is on the viability and applications of cryptocurrencies and crypto assets.
Book Chapter

The Future of Cryptotokens

October 21, 2019
In this chapter, Biasi and Chakravorti study how cryptotoken issuance, also referred to as initial coin offerings and security token offerings, may disrupt funding markets such as venture capital, crowdfunding, and private equity. The authors discuss the necessary infrastructure to support this new asset class. The authors analyze the market...
Incumbents Disruptors

Global Money: Facebook's Libra?

June 28, 2019
Generally, cross-border fund transfers occur over proprietary platforms requiring multiple intermediaries including banks. How do we provide payment mechanisms to the greater than 1.7 billion people without access to bank-intermediated financial services at a lower cost globally? Facebook announced last week that its new global currency, Libra, will address this...
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