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The Currency For a Greener Future?

The Currency For a Greener Future?

Update: 2025-04-30
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The ‘carbon coin’, first proposed in 2019, then popularised through science fiction, is a proposal for making carbon capture and mitigation profitable – the carrot to carbon taxing’s stick. All it takes is getting the world’s governments and central banks on board. We spoke to Delton Chen, the Australian civil engineer and geo-hydrologist who first thought of the idea.

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Author: Caroline Zielinski

Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)

Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

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The Currency For a Greener Future?

The Currency For a Greener Future?

Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS)