metadata: {"signature": "0xc96b4406bbc83f286c11d27eefa6539bab380929ed01bed0d672bb2da22430017e7b724d847fd047c3ee565e75487cf1e9966bf04d2cd12ae7d952d3184d16551b", "application": {"round": "0x98720dd1925d34a2453ebc1f91c9d48e7e89ec29", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "NCt6sWdesT7cUZyqZ/Hp6o+KBnRE5bUg2wfx1Nfj3RduwDQo2itwiyY8A0894qpw", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "d51c1056bcef874472c1436f20a0c5fae59decc480d2a84832dd9e87e1c9ba8af364581f850839b695975b8d7c57d319873738e0a1471473aee6739c5ba6b291036c8912d7da981d25885bc7537a5cfaf3a628aae44cd57dde8c7841b166f6a3e886c3eecfe15cf7d5ff7303b50c2d1bf95ffa9ff32fe5ede0fae3bbf16564640000000000000020af4bc232dccc0935a3d938ee955ecfc72e34bfbd3b46b235826f8b2febac465f1478ef97c5b5f3fdb924b629d3caa1a8"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "@DM_C4H", "hidden": false, "question": "Telegram Handle (you can answer N/A)", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Adelessagh", "hidden": false, "question": "Gitcoin Gov Forum Handle (gov.gitcoin.co)", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://discord.gg/mmCAgkHFnn", "hidden": false, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat (Discord or Telegram )", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "C4H is a project designed to bridge the gap between citizens and space sustainability through web3. Unlike other space sustainability initiatives, C4H\u2019s approach is aimed primarily at citizens. Our objective is to enable them to become players in the 'New Space', not just observers.  Our ambition is to create a community of citizens interested in environmental issues in space and to give them the means to take action to preserve Earth\u2019s orbits. To build this status of stakeholders of sustainable access to Space, our project is to create a collaborative label rewarding citizens for gathering information about the space sustainability of companies in order to highlight space operators with good behaviour on orbits, or companies that use responsible operators in term of space debris.  However, to achieve a certification process that is collaborative, independent, transparent, traceable and tamper-proof, it is necessary to use decentralised identities systems, programmable and automated rewards, unfalsifiable and traceable proof of certification, and decentralised governance. To function, both the community and the label we want to create will need Web3 tools. It's interesting to note that we're not 'web3 natives'. Initially, we didn't think about backing ourselves with a blockchain, because we didn't know what the advantages were. It was only by pivoting, discovering the ecosystem and making comparisons with other models that we came to the conclusion that only Web3 tools would enable us to achieve our objective and have a viable and credible certification system. Over the past two years, we have focused our efforts on ensuring the legal robustness of our project and on strengthening the legitimacy of our approach with actors such as the French space agency. Before wanting to create a community, we felt we had to prove ourselves to be credible. And it's on this credibility that we want to build a 'Schelling point' for all citizens interested in space sustainability. With the publication of our report, produced in partnership with CNES, and the initial technical work laying the foundations for our label, we are entering the second phase of our project, which consists of focusing our efforts on the community aspect, educating and growing our circle of stakeholders, whether they be citizens, web3 projects or companies outside the space sector.", "hidden": false, "question": "How is your project focused on improving the Web3 ecosystem? ", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Cosmos for Humanity was first accepted into the Climate Solutions round at GR15 and has participated in every GR since. \n\nHere are our last updates. As this is our first application to the Web3 Community Round, we have compiled a more comprehensive list than for the Climate Coordination Network Round to make our background more \"readable\" :\n\n\u2022\tWe hired our first trainee, Rebecca, to create educational content related to outer space policies.\n\u2022\tWe have published a contribution to the European Commission' survey about the [ecological transition of the European aerospace and defence industry](https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/consultations/transition-pathway-resilient-sustainable-and-digital-aerospace-and-defence-industrial-ecosystem_en#target-audience).\n\u2022\tWe are participating in the European Commission's consultation on the future of [EU space legislation](https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/public-consultations/targeted-consultation-eu-space-law_en). A very interesting fact for C4H: the EU is considering introducing a space label!\n\u2022\tWe applied to the [Space 4 Sustainability award](https://www.space-sustainability-award.com/about) of the European Space Agency (ESA). We didn't win, but we did have the opportunity to get feedback on OSF from ESA officials.\n\u2022\tWe have delivered the third part of our partnership with CNES concerning OSF. Our aim now is to convince the French space agency to promote OSF within the European Union.\n\u2022\tWe produced our first educational content related to the OSF, ReFi, Space sustainability and the Commons in [English](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-english), [French](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-fran%C3%A7ais), [Italian](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-italiano), [German](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-deutsch), [Spanish](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-espa%C3%B1ol) and [Russian](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9).\n\u2022\tWe participated in the French translation of GreenPilled, as part of GreenPill Afrique Francophone. The eBook is available [here !](https://greenpill.network/)\n\n\n![alt text](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXdEZy4VQAAH7Za?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)\n> Cosmos for Humanity's Chairwoman, Claire Elss, debating the issue of a European ESR label to support the sustainable development of space activities with Andrea Vena, ESA's Chief Climate and Sustainability Officer and Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, CNES' Head of Sustainable Development. First French New Space Conference, July 2022\n\n![alt text](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E2DAQEnhn36BFe1ZQ/profile-treasury-image-shrink_800_800/0/1694267529079?e=1699279200&v=beta&t=ZfOapiALwZ2uXDfdREfBycGEsjYp_Sqny5WkFCNdMA8)\n> Closing photo of the meetup with Claudie Haigner\u00e9, France's first woman astronaut. Presentation of Cosmos for Humanity and of the OSF to a panel of women entrepreneurs, researchers, and senior government officials, from Starburst, CNES, and ANRT, as part of an event supported by \"la French Tech\". March 2023\n\n![alt text](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E2DAQHC01_6K-l-kQ/profile-treasury-image-shrink_800_800/0/1694268964425?e=1699279200&v=beta&t=6q09GtvgK-J2z8oAuP7XlWqjGYz6HlcGTZKwx6a6VAA)\n> Presentation of C4H's missions and the OSF purpose at the \"Regen Ignite\" event during ETHCC in Paris at the invitation of Sparx Lab. July 2023\n", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months (N/A if you haven\u2019t participated previously). ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our impact will become particularly tangible when we succeed in getting public and private players to defend the adoption of the OSF at European regulatory level. We are well on the way. \n\nHowever, in the meantime, here are the most relevant Key performance indicators (KPI) :\n\n- Number of C4H\u2019s core contributors \nTotal : 3 / Comparison with previous round : +0\n\n- Number of active participants of C4H\u2019s DAO\nNot launched yet\n\n- Number of articles published on space sustainability / Space Commons\nTotal : 7 / Comparison with previous round : +2\n\n- Number of publication languages\nTotal : 5 / Comparison with previous round : +0\n\n- Number of followers on Twitter\nTotal : 679 / Comparison with previous round : +50\n\n- Contributions on Gitcoin \nGR18 : $367.25 / 215 contributors / QF $ 4872 (including Shell\u2019s round)\n\n-  Donations through Swiss tax administration\nTotal : 0 CHF / Comparison with previous round : +0\n\n- Number of partnerships\nTotal 2 / Comparison with previous round : +1\n\n- Number of conferences attended as speakers :\nTotal 5 / Comparison with previous round : +1\n\n- Number of contributions to European Commission\u2019 surveys \nTotal 2 / Comparison with previous round : +2\n", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports ", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "16000", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding for the project in USD", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Grants", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources have you received? Check all that apply", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "number", "answer": "3", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Team Size", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "number", "answer": "25", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project? (We will use twitter, domain registration, github, etc to verify)", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Claire Elss : https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-e-276850274/\nDavid Many : https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-many-8bb0aaaa/\nRebecca Franzin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-franzin-8a101220b/", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project (N/A for solo founders): ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG19-Eligibility-50843c8b3ab44ad297731a00efa6e389?pvs=4  ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "As our project is growing, we're looking for new team members. If you're interested in space sustainability, come and join us! :)", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 15, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "0Rz3sxIoPGxQQbaUIYGVM/OKanStQp1qgooswSBsJBc=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "703a73c33e0730187ba69ace7e8f91022eed3afff53a333c6ba2f0f8df1241255c3e3fb1c459da6600bd8d1e511fa919c90a6f2d30e6ffa6f2a65c4336cdb5c0e625dc61cf9f336099734d119268054075d58c1cb3c7ddacaa3fdc5dd4ad78a80099b3d14383bf7658deb3666d58266c7a0a60ee23f480c4ccacce735c0a60cd000000000000002058f03aa377a3563fbd4b4081d7800c60758ff665be393e424afbc70bb4500864bd80d043b453fa5360182c13a25b8d90"}}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? ", "questionId": 16, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "s3lnFctGqP28+JMdpCCFvXhURzSQKFY0ETqOI2I0MRQ=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "b35cfa4880df57b27ac1776625d5f33c532f357cfd5e9f3e9f3673d9d178b6adfe01617c51d1583081d5a54c36d21207f700c33ad2412ae9243e627bf3cc9af69a337373a5828e8391035fc0e6411a01d82b0cf0761eba95d243f567e8fcde806a65cf5f1799575d0f9d9fdc94bbe75a21d8092ebba46d9874d6ac8838557a5e0000000000000020cf2f7956ea9108c48beac744eb465c5d60b7bae32cb35f788566f39a36026fc9dbd8fb34c96ed53c9b051307a5fd7aa8"}}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Europe", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based.  Choose from: ", "questionId": 17}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:578", "title": "Cosmos for Humanity | C4H", "logoImg": "bafkreif6pi4dt26a6c53baltqk6fjow7lbeopp4vvp2z7fihr24qgxnumi", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreihmq36vx7nygf4yoihdijpurznpt3cwpiolfogu2lg3sdzwk6gmla", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://cosmosforhumanity.eu/en", "bannerImg": "bafkreihzjrcyxypx4cfhw3222urwimgqj4huj3nfoisz2mtt2xyxgiiaxe", "createdAt": 1690927705691, "userGithub": "CosmosForHumanity", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..ziwf9UwRuhSDbYVw0xix905AzSxDQzwxLpB35GCAF557mvb6Hv3G2GzeibE9NzURim12uP_005S7BnHh1O8fBw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-10-30T09:54:56.232Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-10-30T09:54:56.232Z", "expirationDate": "2024-01-28T09:54:56.232Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x65ad2BF7E09af2597C140dF6386a3003d0F5f8Ee", "hash": "v0.0.0:96X1zJjztt9cPnLLyxsmB7xYb6jFEatIutJXaQ9o4Nw=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#Cosmos4Humanity"}}}, "description": "\n----------------\n# Who are we ?\n\nCosmos for Humanity | C4H is a Swiss NGO based in Neuch\u00e2tel whose mission is to promote the sustainable development of space activities and to act to preserve the orbital environment.\n\n# What\u2019s the problem ?\n\n![alt text](https://i.imgur.com/q6EbElt.gif)\n\nFaced with the challenges posed by the increasing congestion of our planet's useful orbits, current approaches to space sustainability tend to be aimed solely at industry and specialised public agencies. However, citizens and companies outside the space sector are also [extremely dependent on satellite capabilities](https://www.ted.com/talks/moriba_jah_what_if_every_satellite_suddenly_disappeared?language=en) to maintain their social, economic, political and environmental activities. How can we help them become aware of the consequences of orbital pollution, and give them the means to defend their own interests in outer space?\n\n-----------------------------\n\n# Turning citizens and companies into \u201cNew Space\u201d stakeholders\n\nC4H's approach responds to the challenges of space debris by empowering citizens and companies outside the space sector. Considering that we all have the right to benefit from Earth\u2019s Orbit, as much as the duty, in maintaining environmentally and economically sustainable access to space. \n> **If we all consume satellite data, then we are all responsible for preserving the orbital environment.**\nAs part of a partnership with the French Space Agency ([CNES](https://cnes.fr/en)), Cosmos for Humanity has conceptualised an indicator, the Outer Space Footprint (OSF). Like the energy performance indicator, the OSF gives citizens and businesses the opportunity to defend their interests in space by encouraging or sanctioning the behaviour of space operators and their customers through their choice of consumption and suppliers.\n![alt text](https://i.ibb.co/8PqKZm0/OSF-3.jpg)\n\nC4H proposes that the OSF be adopted as the European Standard for Space Sustainability and that its display be made mandatory for all products and services directly or indirectly related to space. C4H is also campaigning for the preservation of Earth's orbits to be recognised as the 7th Environmental Objective of the [European Green Taxonomy](https://www.spglobal.com/esg/insights/a-short-guide-to-the-eu-s-taxonomy-regulation) and for the obligation for European companies to document their environmental impact to be extended to their footprint on the orbital environment, under the [NFRD/CSRD directives](https://finance.ec.europa.eu/capital-markets-union-and-financial-markets/company-reporting-and-auditing/company-reporting/corporate-sustainability-reporting_en).\n\n# Turning citizens into \u201cNew Space\u201d actors\nAs a complement to the OSF, C4H is running a collaborative label project designed to democratise the concept of space environmentalism. The aim is to enable as many people as possible to make a direct contribution to preserving our orbits by analysing and evaluating companies' policies on space sustainability. We intend to develop a label with a decentralised certification process that would reward citizens for collecting environmental data from companies, while giving them the power to decide on the award of the label.\nThis label is being developed as part of a technological partnership with a blockchain in the Cosmos ecosystem so that the certification can be carried out in a transparent, independent, traceable, and unfalsifiable way.\nThis partnership will be officially launched during the GG19.\n\n# Keep records of space pollution for the next generation\nAt the same time, as a form of digital immune memory, C4H will endeavour, to make all data relating to the OSF and the behaviour of operators in orbit immutable. Keeping track of this data will prove strategic over the next 50 years, in the event of saturation of Earth's orbits and snowballing instances of satellite collisions, described as [Kessler's Syndrome](https://www.space.com/kessler-syndrome-space-debris), C4H\u2019s indicators empower citizens to hold companies liable  for their bad behaviours in outer space in the event of catastrophes that may arise. This legal sword of Damocles is a powerful lever for encouraging companies to adopt responsible policies in terms of space sustainability.\n\n----------------------------\n# Our missions in a nutshell :\n\n1.\tDevelop the Outer Space Footprint (OSF) to evaluate the environmental impact of the use of satellite data on the whole value chain: from launchers and satellites operators to end-users, citizens and companies. \n2.\tCreate a citizen-led eco-label dedicated to studying the outer space environmental impact of companies. Our goal is to create a new way of looking at consumer labels, without the use of trusted third parties and in particular auditing firms [that have conflicts of interest with companies](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/26/blue-ticked-off-the-controversy-over-the-msc-fish-ecolabel).\n3.\tPromote the incorporation of orbit protection as the 7th EU environmental objective so that OSF documentation is made mandatory for European companies (NFRD / CSRD directives) and that sustainable space activities are considered as \"sustainable activities\" in the sense of the European Green Taxonomy.\n4.\tCreate educational content to make English-language studies on \"Space as a Commons\" accessible to French-, German- and Italian-speaking communities, in order to develop the ReFi x DeSpace community in Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy.\n5.\tFund the development of an ecosystem dedicated to the sustainable development of space activities. Researchers and startups are currently struggling to find funding because space sustainability is not \"hype\" or \"profitable\" at the moment. We need to help them.\n6.\tEncourage other teams to fork our stack to see other sister labels emerge on the same model for ocean preservation, forest preservation, or simply to verify carbon footprint data provided by companies.\n\n-----------------------\n# Updates since GG18 & Beta Round :\n\n\u2022\tWe have published a contribution to the European Commission' survey about the [ecological transition of the European aerospace and defence industry](https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/consultations/transition-pathway-resilient-sustainable-and-digital-aerospace-and-defence-industrial-ecosystem_en#target-audience).\n\u2022\tWe are participating in the European Commission's consultation on the future of [EU space legislation](https://defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/public-consultations/targeted-consultation-eu-space-law_en). A very interesting fact for C4H: the EU is considering introducing a space label!\n\u2022\tWe applied to the [Space 4 Sustainability award](https://www.space-sustainability-award.com/about) of the European Space Agency (ESA). We didn't win, but we did have the opportunity to get feedback on OSF from ESA officials.\n\u2022\tWe have delivered the third part of our partnership with CNES concerning OSF. Our aim now is to convince the French space agency to promote OSF within the European Union.\n\u2022\tWe produced our first educational content in French, English, Italian, German and Russian on the sustainable development of space activities.\n\u2022\tWe participated in the French translation of GreenPilled, as part of GreenPill Afrique Francophone. The eBook is available [here !](https://greenpill.network/)\n\u2022\tWe had the opportunity to promote OSF at the \"Regen Ignite\" event during ETHCC in Paris at the invitation of Sparx Lab.\n\n------------------\n\n# Next steps :\n\n\u2022\tC4H's chairwoman Claire Elss will be speaking at a conference on the environmental impact of satellites organised by the French Agency for Ecological Transition ([ADEME](https://www.ademe.fr/en/frontpage/)) (20 November 2023).\n\u2022\tDevelopment of the first \"blocks\" of our technical stack (December 2023).\n\u2022\tOperationalize our DAO using the tools offered by DAO_DAO (December 2023).\n\u2022\tPublish our report \u201cCitizens, New Space actors ?\u201d written in partnership with CNES : (January 2024)\n\u2022\tHire a trainee in partnership with French rocket start-up [HyPrSpace](https://hypr-space.com/) to increase our knowledge of Life Cycle Assessment, improve the relevance of the Outer Space Footprint, and test it in real conditions (TBC - January 2024)\n\n\n# How your donations will be used :\n\n\u2022\tFund the development of our technical stack.\n\u2022\tCreation of educational content related to the OSF, ReFi and the Commons in [English](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-english), [French](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-fran%C3%A7ais), [Italian](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-italiano), [German](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-deutsch), [Spanish](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-espa%C3%B1ol) and [Russian](https://medium.com/cosmos-for-humanity-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9).\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "CosmosForHumanity", "projectTwitter": "cosmos4humanity"}, "recipient": "0x65ad2BF7E09af2597C140dF6386a3003d0F5f8Ee"}}