Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun has publicly pledged to donate $1 1000000 to efforts by the immature Swedish activist Great Thunberg to enhance global sensation of the climate crisis.

Responding to the watered-downwards results of last calendar week's COP25 Un climate briefing in Madrid, Sun tweeted on Dec. 18:

"Every bit a young entrepreneur, I share @GretaThunberg's passion to alter the world. Crypto will contribute immensely on reducing carbon footprint past implementing decentralized settlement. I would like to personally commit USD$1 Mil to @GretaThunberg 'south initiative. #cop25"

COP25 ends in stalemate

The recent UN climate talks set the record for the longest-ever multilateral climate negotiations, yet concluded in stalemate over primal bug such as setting rules for a new global carbon trading marketplace and adopting new, more ambitious emissions reduction targets.

A report from the Financial Times decried a descent into "open bickering" in the concluding hours of the negotiations, pointing to culpably lackluster contributions from the United States and China. Signatories to the eventual "compromise deal" further leveled accusations at Australia and Brazil for their purported attempts to thwart substantive progress.

In a tweet posted on Dec. 15, Un Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tweeted that he was "disappointed with the results of #COP25":

"The international community lost an of import opportunity to show increased ambition on mitigation, adaptation & finance to tackle the climate crisis."

Greta skeptics

On crypto Twitter, Sun's pledge to back Thunberg was met with marked ambivalence, with respondents labeling the activist equally a "affiche kid" or "puppet" for the climate cause, who "doesn't deserve a mention in the crypto earth." Several went and then far as to dismiss her as a fraud or fifty-fifty a "left imitation sponsored by Soros."

Beyond Thunberg, Lord's day's personal motivations were also met with sarcasm and pessimism, with ane respondent accusing him of trying to "get in on the monetization of compulsory carbon credits" and several viewing the pledge equally a ploy to pump the value of the Tron token.

Crypto for the climate crunch

As Cointelegraph has reported, new initiatives to harness blockchain for the emergent carbon trading market are already underway, including the global tokenized carbon credits trading platform launched past AirCarbon this October.

The liberal Gratuitous Democratic Party in Germany has meanwhile advocated for the use of cryptocurrency equally an incentive to reward active climate protection by creating a dedicated token that would exist valued past its guaranteed redemption against carbon emission certificates.

The Bitcoin debate

While the compute-intensive algorithm and loftier power consumption of Bitcoin has notoriously fatigued criticism from climate activists, contempo enquiry has challenged the perception that mining the coin is irreconcilable with tackling climate change.

This June, a study found that 74.1% of Bitcoin mining is powered past renewables. Other energy specialists have previously argued in favor of shifting the contend away from absolute energy consumption to where that energy is produced and how sustainably it is generated.