KlimaDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that strives to accelerate climate finance on a global scale by building the infrastructure for a transparent, neutral, and public Digital Carbon Market. It issues the KLIMA token, which enables users to source and retire tokenized carbon credits, influence the KlimaDAO protocol’s governance, mitigate ecosystem inflation, and build applications. KlimaDAO aims to serve as a public good for the planet, addressing the coordination failure that has held back the global scale-up of climate finance. It seeks to provide public goods and common-pool resources to drive an equitable, sustainable, and blockchain-enabled economy.

KlimaDAO operates as a protocol to facilitate a market for real-world assets (RWA) – carbon credits – using DeFi 2.0 mechanics to maintain protocol-owned liquidity. This provides a scalable and sustainable foundation for the ReFi (regenerative finance) ecosystem. KlimaDAO aims to incentivize the bridging of carbon credits onto the blockchain, overcoming the market failures of the traditional carbon market. These digital carbon credits benefit from transparency, liquidity, and seamless integration to an application layer containing Web2 and Web3 applications.

KlimaDAO aims to power platforms like Carbonmark, the universal carbon market, and works with organizations to help various entities meet their sustainability goals. It launched its carbon retirement aggregator, enabling individuals and organizations to permissionlessly offset their carbon footprints. KlimaDAO seeks to provide public goods and common-pool resources to drive an equitable, sustainable, and blockchain-enabled economy. It serves as a gateway to the Digital Carbon Market, helping to scale up the flow of climate finance to projects that are helping combat climate change.

KlimaDAO was founded in 2021 by a group of individuals from three competing organizations who had been working to solve market failures in the traditional Voluntary Carbon Market. These founding Core contributors united their diverse experience in carbon markets, technology, and business strategy and execution to solve bottlenecks in scaling climate finance globally. KlimaDAO has since grown to assemble the talents of over 50 contributors, and over 100,000 KLIMA token holders. In 2022, KlimaDAO facilitated the exchange of a significant amount of carbon credits while increasing its treasury holdings.