U.S. Climate Policy and Blockchain Innovation in Future Smart and Sustainable Cities

This whitepaper serves as a landscape review of climate policy and innovation at the federal, state and local level in the United States, with a specific focus on the state of California. We explore the current as well as future evolving state of smart and sustainable urban development, and how emerging technologies such as blockchain can be leveraged to achieve progress on longstanding issues related to privacy and security, civic democracy and sustainability.