Remote sensing and smart contracts for biodiversity data

生物多样性数据的遥感和智能合约

• 批准号: 10030674
• 金额: $ 6.29万
• 依托单位: TREECONOMY LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10030674
• 关键词: Remote; sensing; smart; contracts; biodiversity

Treeconomy's project revolves around the need for enhanced monitoring of biodiversity data within the rapidly growing and maturing natural capital/nature-based solutions investment sector.Significant institutional investment is now being made into natural capital, with the majority of this focussed on carbon removal or avoided CO2 emissions schemes as the primary ecosystem service. While admirable and much needed, there is a substantial risk of focussing on carbon as the only attribute for projects, leading to actions that actually degrade a landscape (e.g. the planting of non-native monoculture plantations) with significant long-term detrimental impacts on mitigation actions as well as resilience to future shocks (e.g. climate change, pests, disease).The first step is to be able to quantify and track biodiversity attributes at high resolution within project sites, such as forest schemes or landscape regeneration.The second half of the proposal is to then consider how these data are embedded into project characteristics and can therefore become actionable and have a material financial consideration. Treeconomy proposes the use of smart contracts and wider blockchain adoption for this. Being able to immutably encode biodiversity metadata into projects or to be encoded into smart carbon credits would permanently embed these attributes in financial transactions and enable tracking through supply chains, an increasingly important consideration for financial institutions.The customers in mind are asset managers branching into the natural capital sector. There is a secondary customer - the Government, specifically Defra. The UK Government is rolling out the Environmental Land Management System, conceived as a "public payments for public goods programme" replacing the EU Common Agricultural Policy for land-based subsidies. These public goods include the preservation and enhancement of biodiversity. Measurement and reliable tracking of ecosystem services will be absolutely vital to the successful realisation of ELMS. Our proposed solution could lay the groundwork for automated payments based on real-world monitoring data, to the extent that Defra subsidy payments can be dynamically updated based on location and quantity of environmental goods that were achieved or supported.This would tackle impact disclosures, climate outcome and transition risks associated with climate mitigation activities. The solution is built around high resolution but scalable remote sensing data, with smart contracts designed to track ecosystem service impacts through digital supply chains for ecosystem service payments.

TREECHONSOMY的项目围绕着增强对生物多样性数据的需求，基于自然/自然的解决方案投资领域的生物多样性数据。现在正在向自然资本进行机构投资，其中大部分都集中在碳去除或避免使用的二氧化碳二氧化碳计划方案作为初级生态系统服务。 While admirable and much needed, there is a substantial risk of focussing on carbon as the only attribute for projects, leading to actions that actually degrade a landscape (e.g. the planting of non-native monoculture plantations) with significant long-term detrimental impacts on mitigation actions as well as resilience to future shocks (e.g. climate change, pests, disease).The first step is to be able to quantify and track biodiversity attributes在项目站点内的高分辨率上，例如森林方案或景观再生。该提案的后半部分是考虑如何将这些数据嵌入项目特征中，因此可以起到作用并具有物质财务考虑。 Treeecomony建议使用智能合约和更广泛的区块链采用。能够将生物多样性元数据编码为项目或被编码为智能碳信用额，将这些属性永久嵌入金融交易中，并通过供应链进行跟踪，这是财务机构的越来越重要的考虑。有一个二级客户 - 政府，特别是Defra。英国政府正在推出环境土地管理系统，被认为是“公共物品计划的公共付款计划”，以取代欧盟公共农业政策的土地补贴。这些公共物品包括生物多样性的保存和增强。生态系统服务的测量和可靠跟踪对于成功实现榆树绝对至关重要。我们提出的解决方案可以基于现实世界的监视数据为自动付款奠定基础，以至于可以根据获得或支持的环境产品的位置和数量来动态更新Defra补贴付款，这将解决与气候缓解活动相关的影响披露，气候结果和过渡风险。该解决方案是围绕高分辨率但可扩展的遥感数据构建的，其智能合约旨在通过数字供应链来跟踪生态系统服务付款的影响。