# Talking Environmental Assets with Ecofrontiers *Trinity catches up with founders Louise Borreani and Pat Rawson to discuss The Green Crypto Handbook* By [The CARBON Copy Newsletter](https://paragraph.com/@carboncopy) · 2025-07-31 climate, refi, blockchain, finance, web3, cryptocurrency --- Louise and Pat have put together the seminal piece of research on blockchain-based environmental assets and what they mean for the future of climate impact. Although not published yet, they sat down with our Trinity Morphy to discuss key concepts in the manuscript. On blockchain's readiness: "_Many of the building blocks needed for a new environmental finance architecture—programmable registries, verifiable claims, composable markets, and multi-stakeholder governance—already exist and are actively being deployed. We’re still missing a few crucial primitives, such as location-aware dApps (see:_ [_Astral Protocol_](https://carboncopy.news/project/astral/)_) and mass tokenisation of commodities, but this point feels moot. Overall, what remains underdeveloped is not the tech stack, but institutional readiness to use it._" On ecocapitalism 2.0: "_Ecocapitalism 2.0 proposes a different approach—one grounded in protocols, not paperwork. Thanks to crypto, we now have a global financial infrastructure that is radically accessible, programmable, and borderless by design. Anyone with a wallet can mint, govern, or trade green assets. Impact can be tokenised, verified onchain, and governed transparently through shared registries. Ecocapital no longer needs to wait for institutional approval—it can flow endogeneously and directly to regenerators, data providers, and stewards on the ground._" On the over-financialisation of nature: "_The critique of over-financialisation—the idea that ecosystems and biodiversity are being reductively abstracted into tradable assets—is both necessary and overdue. But it is important to recognise that nature has long been financialised through less visible means. Ecosystems are routinely embedded in economic calculations, property regimes, insurance models, and state-led valuations of land use, extractive potential, and risk. What blockchain-based systems make possible is not the initiation of this financialisation, but its unveiling._" This isn't one you'll want to miss. Read the full interview in two parts 👇 [ Louise Borreani and Pat Rawson of Ecofrontiers - Part 1 ------------------------------------------------------- Trinity Morphy catches up with the authors of The Green Crypto Handbook to discuss ecocapitalism, the onchain environmental finance stack, and the maturity of blockchain. https://carboncopy.news ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/04d68c6878ad4ee17e6e9b1ce8e08fc8.jpg) ](https://carboncopy.news/features/interview-louise-borreani-pat-rawson-ecofrontiers-green-crypto-handbook-part-one/) [ Louise Borreani and Pat Rawson of Ecofrontiers - Part 2 ------------------------------------------------------- The authors of The Green Crypto Handbook discuss the transition to onchain environmental finance, regulatory and narrative shifts, and the EU's recent nature credit announcement. https://carboncopy.news ![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/11065de67b7317fa5b19576d4008059a.jpg) ](https://carboncopy.news/features/interview-louise-borreani-pat-rawson-ecofrontiers-green-crypto-handbook-part-two/) * * * ### ReFi Roundtable Part 2 Hosted by Coral Tribe Our co-founder, Kent Babin, was joined by Louise Borreani of Ecofrontiers, Matt Strachman of Greenpill Network, and Terex from Azos Finance to discuss The Green Crypto Handbook manuscript produced by Louise and her colleague Pat Rawson. 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