Blockchain and Climate Action: Enhancing Esg and Carbon Markets Through Financial Technology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783111706603)

Prof Dr Dominik Skauradszun, LLM, Honorary Professor, Judge of Appeal. Dominik is the spokesperson of the research group TOSCA. He is a full professor of civil law, civil procedure, and company law at Fulda University, Germany. He specialises in European and German civil law and company law with a particular focus on blockchain-related assets. He is a judge of appeal of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt (court of appeal). He is also an Honorary Professor of Nottingham Law School and regularly gives seminars on the law of crypto-assets. He has published widely with leading publishers and in peer-reviewed international journals and is the author of more than 170 works.

Prof Dr Dr Walter Blocher is the vice spokesperson of the research group TOSCA. He is a full professor at the University of Kassel, Germany, where he heads the Department of Civil Law, Corporate Law and IT Law. One of his main research interests lies in the field of distributed ledger technology and the related legal issues. He initiated the DLT research group Blockchain-Center.eu, where he also co-leads numerous crypto-asset projects. He is a co-founder of bloxberg, the leading platform for decentralized science, and serves as its Senate Chair. He is on the editorial board of The JBBA, The Journal of The British Blockchain Association.

Prof Dr Florian Möslein is a full professor of German civil law, German and European business law at the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. His research interests lie in the fields of corporate and capital market law, banking law, contract law, European law, legal theory and comparative law. Currently, he is also a Global Fellow at New York University School of Law. He is a Director of the Institute for Law and Regulation of Digitalization.

Prof Dr Carsten Müller is a full professor for general business administration at the Fulda University, where he is also the director of the Master degree program in Accounting, Finance, Controlling. He is a fellow of the Center for Climate Finance and Sustainability (CCFS) at the Universitá della Svizzera italiana (USI) Lugano.

Prof Dr Eric Nowak is a full professor of financial management and accounting at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, where he serves as Director of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI), and Director of the Center for Climate Finance and Sustainability (CCFS). He is also a fellow of the Center for Financial Studies at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany. Furthermore, he is a member of the VERRA Verified Carbon Standards (VCS) Program Advisory Group.

Prof Dr Nils Urbach is a full professor of information systems, digital business and mobility as well as Director of the Research Lab for Digital Innovation & Transformation (ditlab) at the Frankfurt University, Germany. Furthermore, he is a Director at the FIM Research Center for Information Management and Deputy Head of the Branch Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT as well as co-founder and Director of the Fraunhofer Blockchain Lab.

Prof Dr Georg von Wangenheim is a full professor at the University of Kassel and chairs the research group on the foundations of law, private law, and the economic analysis of law. Being trained as both economist and lawyer, his research focus is on the economic analysis of law. Within this field, he concentrates on the effects of alternative legislated, judge-made and contractual legal rules on human behaviour and thus on sustainability. Furthermore, he is member of the DLT research group of the Blockchain Center.eu, where he is the co-leader of numerous crypto-assets projects.