What kind of smart currency for sustainable development?
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: What Smart Currency for Sustainable Development?
In a global context where the shift toward a sustainable economic model and a regenerative economy has become a priority, the emergence of smart currencies offers unprecedented opportunities to support ecological and social projects. These currencies—whether local, digital, or blockchain-based—have the potential, when equipped with appropriate regulations or frameworks, to become powerful levers for sustainable development by encouraging responsible behaviors and directly supporting green or virtuous initiatives.
Numerous proposals are possible, ranging from specific thematic focuses to broader, deeper impacts on behaviors.
Beyond this initial experimental stage, these currencies serve as low-stakes laboratories for the global economy, within which engaged citizen communities can pursue such innovations. This brings the advantage of replicating successful models for testing on other currencies, with the ultimate goal of introducing them into international currencies successfully and with minimal risk.
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In the frame of the 18th Geneva Forum, this annual conference offers a high-level interactive workshop to be held on Wednesday, December 9, 2026, from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm in Geneva, bringing together key players to explore opportunities provided by smart currencies to support sustainable development. This event is organized in partnership with the Geneva Forum and the participatory scientific research NGO Objectif Sciences International.
Call for Contributions
We invite:
– sustainable finance specialists, impact project coaches, and committed personal development professionals,
– entrepreneurs,
– fintech developers and sector actors,
– economists, as well as citizen and political representatives,
– researchers,
to actively contribute to discussions on ethical finance as a lever for and innovation in supporting the ecological transition and sustainable finance.
Submit Your Projects!
This call for contributions invites innovators and experts to propose projects or ideas that:
- design smart currencies fostering transparent, ethical, and traceable transactions in sustainable finance,
- develop currency or token models that reward or generate ecological practices or encourage responsible behaviors,
- offer technological solutions that integrate sustainability into transactions and promote a more circular and eco-responsible economy.
Selected contributions will be presented at the event’s conferences, workshops, and meetings, providing a platform for exchange and inspiration to co-create new approaches to sustainable finance and smart currencies.
- To propose a topic for short presentations, please fill out the form below on this page.
- To view the workshop program, please visit the page for [-
- 8:30 am: Entry
- 9:00 am: Reception
- 9:15 am: Opening Keynotes
- 9:35 am: - (10 talks of 5 minutes each) - -
- 10:30 am: Introduction of the question to address
- 10:40 am: - sessions
- 11:45 am: - (feedback session)
- 12:45 pm: Closing remarks
- 1:00 pm: Workshop concludes
- 7:00 pm: Networking Dinner
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- - Identify innovative approaches for digital or local currencies to serve sustainable development goals by incorporating green and social mechanisms.
- - Discuss tools and technologies that allow tracking, certifying, and encouraging responsible and environmentally friendly transactions.
- - Bring together experts in finance, technology, and sustainable development to develop and implement currencies with positive impact.
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This workshop is part of the Smart Finance Conference Cycle and this year aims to provide finance experts, institutions, and technology entrepreneurs with solutions, models, and tools for developing smart currencies that support sustainable development. The goal is to promote initiatives that incorporate sustainability into financial transactions, creating monetary systems that encourage and reward responsible behaviors.
Through collaborative dynamics and exchanges between finance, technology, and sustainable development experts, we will collectively explore ways to enhance the impact of smart currencies and strengthen their role in ecological transition. The workshop will examine how these currencies can become powerful levers for sustainability, promoting not only transaction transparency but also collective commitment to the green economy.
To realize this approach, we will first give the floor to 10 professionals from various fields, each with 5 minutes to share their perspectives and practices during the first hour of the workshop. Participants will have received information about the speakers and their projects beforehand. These brief presentations will focus on best practices for designing smart currencies, based on criteria of efficiency, transparency, ecological impact, and sustainable innovation.
the Annual International Conference on Ethical and Sustainable Finance for Peace and Sustainable Development->https://www.geneva-forum.com/Ethical-Currencies.html].
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Workshop Agenda
- Short Presentations Smart Finance and Smart Currencies – How can currencies transform sustainable finance and support the ecological transition, creating positive or virtuous outcomes in general? see below
- Group Work The rise of decentralized finance technologies, digital currencies, and blockchain platforms has transformed the financial sector by introducing more transparent, accessible, and inclusive solutions. In this dynamic, smart currencies—whether local, digital, or socially driven—are viewed as a means to promote sustainable development. Pioneering projects such as green cryptocurrencies and eco-responsible tokens are already exploring this path by supporting sustainable practices and funding environmental protection initiatives.
This call for contributions aims to gather ideas and initiatives to envision new forms of currency that address current ecological and social issues by incorporating sustainability-promoting mechanisms.
Interactive Roundtable
Workshop Objectives - Why Participate
What characteristics enable a currency to integrate sustainability objectives (eco-points, compensatory tokens, carbon credit systems)?
- Workshop Objectives Exploration of blockchain technologies, traceability tools, and tokenization systems that ensure the transparency and traceability of responsible transactions.
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