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.

这项小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛/商业影响集中在其对协调政府、行业和个人的气候变化减缓绩效以实现负碳未来的潜在贡献上。这个项目正在发展的碳跟踪和可视化自动化系统可以使许多试图在可验证的地图上进行碳减排活动的组织联网，协调其他不同的努力。在世界各国努力解决全球气候变化问题的过程中，区域、国家和全球的协调非常重要。拟议的平台不仅设想在全球范围内汇总多部门信息，还允许组织之间通过碳税或信用共享碳目标和脱碳投资来进行合作。该解决方案还将实体或区域层面的碳足迹置于地球碳使用和地球碳边界范围内。这一用于协调的可视化工具有望帮助加速可持续发展领域的公私伙伴关系，帮助各组织围绕资源管理开展合作，并通过互联互通支持经济活动和创造就业机会。这项研究的技术创新是将所有同时进行的、多层次的脱碳努力在一张地图上进行视觉协调。区域协调仍然是广泛气候行动的最大障碍之一。即使推行县级气候行动计划，由于资源分配往往不公平，县内城市也可能无法均匀地实现目标。同样，行业内部往往缺乏协调；公司可能很难绘制范围数据，更不用说与其他行业合作了。通过将潜在合作伙伴的目标和轨迹公开可视化，该项目可能会使公司和政府更容易进行合作。提供经过验证的足迹的公司可能具有更全面、更准确的数据和向他们提供建议的优势。在这项研究中，该团队打算为用户开发碳负预算，绘制过去和未来的碳使用情况，自动上传排放数据，为用户的内部设施或资产构建地图，并为用户构建脱碳模型工具，以探索实现代币化平台上碳交易的解决方案场景。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。