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.

Treeconomy的项目围绕着在快速增长和成熟的自然资本/基于自然的解决方案投资领域加强生物多样性数据监测的需求，目前正在对自然资本进行大量机构投资，其中大部分集中在碳去除或避免二氧化碳排放计划作为主要的生态系统服务。虽然令人钦佩和迫切需要，但将碳作为项目的唯一属性，导致实际上破坏景观的行动，（如种植非本地单一栽培的种植园）对缓解行动以及对未来冲击的抗御力具有重大的长期不利影响（如气候变化、虫害、疾病）。第一步是能够以高分辨率量化和跟踪项目地点内的生物多样性属性，如森林计划或景观再生。建议的第二部分是考虑如何将这些数据嵌入项目特征，从而使其具有可操作性并具有实质性的财务价值。考虑. Treeconomy建议使用智能合约和更广泛的区块链采用。如果能够将生物多样性元数据以不可改变的方式编码到项目中，或者编码到智能碳信用额中，就可以将这些属性永久地嵌入金融交易中，并通过供应链进行跟踪，这对金融机构来说是一个越来越重要的考虑因素。还有一个次要客户-政府，特别是Defra。联合王国政府正在推出环境土地管理系统，作为“公共产品公共支付方案”，取代欧盟共同农业政策的土地补贴。这些公益物包括保护和加强生物多样性。生态系统服务的测量和可靠跟踪对于成功实现ELMS至关重要。我们提出的解决方案可以为基于真实世界监测数据的自动化支付奠定基础，因为Defra补贴支付可以根据实现或支持的环境产品的位置和数量动态更新。这将解决与气候减缓活动相关的影响披露，气候后果和过渡风险。该解决方案围绕高分辨率但可扩展的遥感数据构建，智能合约旨在通过生态系统服务支付的数字供应链跟踪生态系统服务的影响。