Scaling Local Climate Adaptation with Verified Climate Outcomes™️
Imagine if the climate-friendly actions you take were creating real financial value for you while strengthening your community’s climate resilience.
This is the groundbreaking concept behind Dashboard.Earth’s Verified Climate Outcomes™ (VCOs).
Valuing Local Climate Actions
Climate initiatives often focus on large-scale institutional changes, overlooking the necessity of individual action on the local level - a massive opportunity in addressing the climate crisis. Despite heightened climate anxiety—reported by 67% of Americans—51% remain unsure how to effectively participate in climate mitigation.
Yet individual and household activities account for a significant portion of global CO2 emissions, contributing 60% to 80% of total emissions globally. At the same time, governments, NGOs, and corporations are pouring billions of dollars into climate resilience projects, but they often find it difficult to effectively deploy these funds at the community level or get any verified outcomes from them.
Dashboard.Earth's goal is to close this gap. By aggregating the impact and real value generated by individual actions, we create Verified Climate Outcomes™ purchased by foundations, corporations, and government agencies.
The Marketplace for Verified Climate Outcomes™
VCOs are the cornerstone of our strategy to catalyze systemic change by measuring and valuing individual climate actions. When users log activities on the Dashboard.Earth app—like installing water-efficient devices or composting their food scraps—these actions are quantified, verified, and aggregated into VCOs. This not only provides a measurable impact that organizations can fund but also lays the groundwork for a market in which these verified outcomes can be purchased, directly incentivizing individuals to maintain their environmentally positive behaviors.
Ensuring Integrity and Embracing Co-Benefits
Our platform is committed to transparency and meticulous verification, employing methods such as photo evidence, GPS data, and third-party validations. This rigorous process assures that each action is genuine and effective, facilitating the creation of VCOs that organizations can confidently invest in to fulfill their environmental and social governance goals.
Beyond simple carbon reduction, our approach recognizes and quantifies the co-benefits of local actions, such as biodiversity preservation, urban cooling, and water conservation. For example, planting native trees in a city not only sequesters carbon but also helps reduce the urban heat island effect, supports local wildlife, increases water infiltration, and improves air quality. In this way, VCOs are a more holistic solution for diverse climate challenges.
The Future of Climate Action
Verified Climate Outcomes™ signify a major shift in how we approach climate action. Traditional carbon offsets reduce complex environmental issues to a single metric—CO2 levels. In contrast, VCOs capture a broad spectrum of environmental impacts, ensuring that the holistic co-benefits of every local action are measured and valued. The success of our pilot in Los Angeles has shown that this model is scalable, turning thousands of individual actions into powerful community engagement and environmental change
By transforming local environmental actions into financially valued outcomes, Dashboard.Earth not only motivates continuous participation but also facilitates significant investments in community-level resilience. This innovative approach redefines the incentive structure for climate action, proving that when we change the way we value and fund these efforts, we can fundamentally alter the system.
Every climate-positive choice has financial value, which is why we’ve made it our mission to give every human an incentive to adapt to climate change. Together, we can harness the power of community-driven change, making a measurable impact on the planet.