Sherwood Platform: A smart platform for monitoring nature-based carbon removal

该项目关注的是对基于自然的碳去除市场日益增长的信任和透明度的需求。全球自愿碳清除市场在过去一年中翻了一番，达到略高于10亿美元的规模，并将在2030年增至500亿美元，其中大部分将来自成本较低的自然解决方案（如植树、泥炭恢复、红树林恢复和其他计划）。政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）的报告明确强调了这些行动的重要性，报告指出，如果不积极清除大气中的二氧化碳，巴黎协议（将全球变暖限制在2摄氏度以内，目标是1.5摄氏度）就不可能实现。这一点在国家层面得到了强调，英国气候变化委员会的目标是每年植树3万公顷，并将高地泥炭恢复50%，低地泥炭恢复25%。由此产生了两个基本的技术问题：我们如何准确地计算这些复杂生态系统中去除和储存的二氧化碳？和2\。那么，我们如何长期跟踪这一行动，并确保随着市场的快速增长，通过碳抵消信用额的支付在供应链中得到准确的跟踪？这不仅是企业碳抵消购买者的问题，企业碳抵消购买者是碳排放的主要购买者和责任持有人，也是他们用来消除不可避免排放的碳抵消的责任持有人，也是政策制定者的问题，因为他们要决定激励、补贴和国际贸易计划。该项目主要致力于开发Treeconomy Sherwood平台，这是一个旨在解决这两个挑战的软件解决方案。Treeconomy已经建立了遥感工具来分析基于自然的碳去除项目，并更有力地量化其中储存的碳。我们在原型阶段有基于森林的项目的核心解决方案，目前处于泥炭项目的研发阶段。该项目侧重于智能数据库的需求，以便对在资产级别收集的数据进行编目，随着时间的推移监视和更新这些数据，并以自动化的方式跟踪事务。提出的解决方案涉及使用可持续的区块链应用程序并与我们的遥感数据集成。最终的解决方案将是一个自动化的碳抵消跟踪软件系统，该系统有能力对每吨二氧化碳进行地理标记，并追踪到碳抵免产生的确切树木或土地面积——这将大大提高准确性和透明度。

The project focuses on the increasing need for trust and transparency in the nature-based carbon removal market. The market globally for voluntary carbon removal has doubled in the past year to just over $1bn and is set to increase by 2030 to a $50bn market, the majority of which will come from lower-cost natural solutions (such as tree planting, peat restoration, mangrove restoration and other schemes). The importance of such actions is now clearly underlined by the IPCC reports stating that Paris alignment - limiting global warming to 2C and aiming for 1.5C - is no longer possible without actively removing CO2 from the atmosphere. This is underlined at a national level with the UK Climate Change Committee's target for 30,000ha of tree planting per year as well as restoring upland peat by 50% and lowland peat by 25%. Two fundamental technical issues arise from this: 1\. How do we accurately calculate the CO2 removed and stored in these complex ecosystems?, and 2\. How do we then track this action over time and ensure that payment, via carbon offset credits, are accurately tracked through supply chains as the market grows rapidly? This is a problem for both corporate offset buyers who are set to be the main buyer and liability holder for their emissions and the carbon offsets they use to remove unavoidable emissions, but also policy makers as they decide on incentive, subsidy and international trade schemes. This project is chiefly focused on developing the Treeconomy Sherwood Platform, a software solution designed to solve these two challenges. Treeconomy has built the remote sensing tools to analyse nature-based carbon removal projects and more robustly quantify the carbon stored within them. We have the core solution for forest-based projects at prototype stage and are currently in an R&D stage for peat projects. This project focuses on the need for smart databasing to then catalogue the data collected at the asset level, to monitor and update this data over time, and to track transactions in an automated manner. The solution proposed involves the use of a sustainable blockchain application and integration with our remote sensing data. The end solution will be an automated carbon offset tracking software system, with the power to geotag and trace every tonne of CO2 back to the exact tree, trees or area of land that the credit stems from - a radical increase in accuracy and transparency.