SBIR Phase II: Development of a Distributed Ledger System to Track Environmental Sustainability

SBIR 第二阶段：开发分布式账本系统来跟踪环境可持续性

• 批准号: 2223081
• 负责人: Tara Gupta
• 金额: $ 92.58万
• 依托单位: MAP-COLLECTIVE, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2223081&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Development; Distributed

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project centers around its potential contribution to the coordination of climate change mitigation performance of governments, industry, and individuals towards a carbon negative future. The automated system for carbon tracking and visualization that this project is evolving could allow it to network many organizations that are trying to pursue carbon reduction activities on a verifiable map, coordinating otherwise disparate efforts. Regional, national, and global coordination are important as the world attempts to solve the global climate change problem. The proposed platform not only envisions aggregate multisector information on the global level, it allows for collaboration among organizations by sharing carbon goals and decarbonization investments through carbon easements or credits. The solution also contextualizes carbon footprints on the entity or region-level within the planetary carbon usage and planetary carbon boundaries. This visualization tool used for coordination is expected to help accelerate public-private partnerships in the sustainability space, and help organizations collaborate around resource management, and support economic activities and job creation through connectivity. The technical innovation in this research is the visual coordination of all the simultaneous, multi-level, decarbonization efforts onto one map. Regional coordination remains one of the biggest obstacles to widespread climate action. Even when a county-level climate action plan is pursued, cities within the counties may not implement goals evenly, as there are often inequities in resource distribution. Similarly, there is often a lack of coordination within industries; Companies may have trouble mapping scope data, let alone collaborating with other industries. The project is likely to make collaborations more accessible for companies and governments by visualizing potential partners’ goals and trajectories publicly. Companies that provide verified footprints may have advantages of more thorough data, more accurate data, and recommendations offered to them. In this research, the team intends to pursue the development of a carbon negative budget for users, map out past and future carbon usage, automate emissions data uploads, build out maps for internal facilities or assets of a user, and build out a decarbonization model tool for users to explore solution scenarios enabling tokenized on-platform carbon trading.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该小企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第二阶段项目的更广泛/商业影响集中在其对协调政府、行业和个人气候变化缓解绩效以实现碳负未来的潜在贡献。该项目的可视化可以使其将许多试图在可验证的地图上开展碳减排活动的组织联网，协调其他不同的努力，随着世界试图解决全球气候变化，区域、国家和全球协调变得越来越重要。问题不仅仅在于提出的平台。设想在全球层面上汇总多部门信息，它允许通过碳地役权或信贷共享碳目标和脱碳投资来进行组织之间的协作，该解决方案还将实体或区域层面的碳足迹置于全球碳使用量和全球碳边界范围内。这种用于协调的可视化工具预计将有助于加速可持续发展领域的公私伙伴关系，并帮助组织围绕资源管理进行协作，并通过连通性支持经济活动和创造就业机会。都一样，将多层次的脱碳工作集中到一张地图上仍然是广泛开展气候行动的最大障碍之一，即使制定了县级气候行动计划，县内的城市也可能无法均匀地实现目标，因为往往存在不平等。同样，行业内往往缺乏协调；公司可能难以绘制范围数据，更不用说通过可视化潜在合作伙伴的目标来与其他行业合作。以及公开的轨迹。提供经过验证的足迹可能具有更全面的数据、更准确的数据以及向他们提供建议的优势。在这项研究中，该团队打算为用户制定碳负预算，规划过去和未来的碳使用情况，实现排放自动化。数据上传，为用户内部设施或资产构建地图，并构建脱碳模型工具，供用户探索实现代币化平台碳交易的解决方案场景。该奖项授予NSF法定使命，经评估认为值得支持利用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。