The Barat Academy Board of Directors has committed to a range of upgrades to the school’s facilities that save energy, conserve water and harness renewable energy.

The answers to the environmental challenges of the 21st Century aren’t top-down mandates or exploiting teenaged pawns for manipulating swing voters.

Financiers for a US-based clean energy, energy efficiency and water conservation project have selected Spring Labs to develop a blockchain-enabled registry which will help them assess or track the status of their programmes.

Spring Labs, the blockchain startup, is set to create a registry to track liens in the $5.6 billion energy-efficiency loan market to cut fraud and improve lending.

As more cities and states put into effect tough environmental standards and laws to combat climate change, developers are turning to PACE loans to mitigate the high costs of green-building requirements.