How Ripple is Helping Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity to Unlock Crypto Philanthropy
February 17, 2026
Sustainability
Driving sustainability in crypto, finance and the global economy
Ripple believes that a sustainable future is ours for the making. By advancing and applying innovative technology, we can successfully address some of the world’s most daunting challenges, including climate change.
Our key initiatives
Cultivating a sustainable future from the inside out
Achieving corporate sustainability
Championing carbon neutral blockchain
Accelerating climate action
Achieving corporate sustainability
We’re reducing our own carbon footprint and have pledged to reach carbon net-zero emissions by 2030—or sooner. Our progress is steady across reduced emissions, clean energy use, and investment in innovative carbon removal projects.
Championing low-energy blockchain
We build on one of the world’s fastest, low-energy and carbon-neutral, public blockchains—the XRP Ledger.
Of course, real change requires collective action. This is why we advocate for a low-carbon future for the entire crypto industry and global economy. Rather than being at odds with sustainability, we believe that crypto can play a catalytic role in addressing climate change, while also promoting increased financial inclusion and efficiency.
In partnership with
The Climate Pledge is a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, bringing the world's leading companies together to accelerate joint action, cross-sector collaboration, and responsible change. Ripple has been a signatory since 2022.
BxC is a network of global stakeholders working together to define and author principles that govern climate-related blockchain efforts.
The Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance is an industry coalition accelerating the path to net-zero aviation by driving investment in and adoption of high-integrity sustainable aviation fuel — supporting companies, airlines, and freight customers in achieving their climate goals.
Enabling climate action
The science is clear: reducing emissions alone won’t be enough to avert the climate crisis. This fact drives our dedicated support of companies building the infrastructure to scale the voluntary carbon market, as well as our investments in innovative carbon removal projects.
A carbon credit data infrastructure for the voluntary carbon market
Centigrade is an open data platform designed to become the central data utility for the global voluntary carbon market. Co-founded by Ripple and the Rocky Mountain Institute, Centigrade provides a fully digital, live data environment for profiling and tracking carbon projects in their full scientific and operational detail — bringing transparency and trust to a market that has long struggled with both. Leveraging XRP Ledger technology, Centigrade's standardized data structure can accommodate any carbon credit methodology and pathway, enabling faster project discovery, reduced due diligence, and a more scalable path to net zero.
Revealing real estate emissions to spur industry action
Carbon Title is building the first decentralized platform designed to bring transparency to decarbonization efforts within the real estate sector, which generates nearly 40% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. By making building emissions data easily accessible and searchable by the public, Carbon Title aims to hold the industry accountable for its outsized environmental impact.
Trapping carbon in concrete jungles
CarbonCure’s technology has already proven effective in injecting captured CO2 into fresh concrete, where it is immediately mineralized and permanently locked away. With our investment in thousands of carbon credits, to be created and delivered over an expected 10-year span, Ripple is contributing to CarbonCure’s ability to unlock opportunities for global deployment and scale.
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From green waste to black gold
BC Biocarbon converts renewable organic matter into solid, stable, and long-lasting carbon products, such as biochar or high value chemicals. When biochar is added to soil, not only does it help improve soil fertility, but it can sequester thousands of tons of CO2. Ripple’s support helps to fuel the expansion of this innovative and promising carbon removal methodology.
