Jonathan E. Rackoff is an attorney and policy advisor with more than twenty years of experience at the intersection of emerging technologies and regulatory strategy. He is the former Vice President and Head of Global Policy & Regulatory Affairs for the Hedera Foundation—the ecosystem-development arm of the Hedera Layer-1 distributed ledger network—where he helped lead climate-tech investment and related regulatory goals across North America, the EU, the UK, the Middle East, and APAC. He currently advises digital technology and climate-innovation companies on regulatory, commercial, and governance strategy in the Web3, AI, and carbon-markets sectors.

During the Obama Administration, Jonathan served in the White House as lead regulatory counsel to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and as Designated Agency Ethics Officer for the Office of Management and Budget. He later served as Senior Counsel for Congressional Affairs in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he oversaw the agency’s response to more than 90 congressional investigations and 60 hearings in the 114th Congress.

In addition, Jonathan practiced appellate and Supreme Court litigation at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C.; served as General Counsel of a biotechnology startup; and was a litigation partner at a Seattle boutique representing frontier-technology companies on high-stakes regulatory and crisis-management matters—including in a secondment to Coinbase’s Policy and Ventures teams following its direct public listing.

He is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where he served as an Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review, and clerked both for the Hon. Proctor Hug, Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Hon. Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Chapter 1: Climate Change.- Chapter 2: Understanding Carbon Markets.- Chapter 3: Controversy to Credibility: Reforming Carbon Markets with Technology.- Chapter 4: Critical need for regulation: Integrity of voluntary carbon markets.- Chapter 5: Legal and Policy Foundations of Blockchain-Enabled Global Carbon Markets and Climate Data Systems.- Chapter 6: Blockchain Use Cases for High Integrity Carbon Markets : Addressing Double Counting, Liquidity and Transparency.- Chapter 7: The Basics of Blockchains for Carbon Markets.- Chapter 8: Carbon Tokenization.- Chapter 9: Trends in end-to-end Ecosystem Standards.- Chapter 10: The Role of Data and Technology in Carbon Projects.- Chapter 11: Climate Action Data Trust.- Chapter 12: Partnering for Project Longevity.- Chapter 13: Pricing the VCM, S&P Global case study.