Remote sensing and smart contracts for biodiversity data

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部门加强对生物多样性数据的监测的需求。现在，对自然资本进行了重大的机构投资，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。虽然碳是令人钦佩和迫切需要的，但将碳作为项目的唯一属性存在很大的风险，这会导致实际使景观退化的行动(如种植非本土单一种植园)，对缓解行动以及对未来冲击(如气候变化、虫害、疾病)的恢复能力产生重大的长期有害影响。第一步是能够在项目地点内以高分辨率量化和跟踪生物多样性属性，如森林计划或景观更新。提案的后半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重大的财务考虑。TreEconomy建议使用智能合约，并为此更广泛地采用区块链。能够将生物多样性元数据不变地编码到项目中或编码到智能碳信用中，将把这些属性永久地嵌入金融交易中，并能够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，具体地说是环境保护局。英国政府正在推出环境土地管理系统，这是一个“公共产品公共支付计划”，取代了欧盟共同农业政策的土地补贴。这些公共产品包括保护和加强生物多样性。生态系统服务的衡量和可靠跟踪对于ELMS的成功实现绝对至关重要。我们提议的解决方案可以为基于真实世界监测数据的自动支付奠定基础，在一定程度上，Defra补贴支付可以根据实现或支持的环境商品的位置和数量动态更新。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。该解决方案围绕高分辨率但可扩展的遥感数据构建，通过智能合同设计，通过生态系统服务支付的数字供应链跟踪生态系统服务影响。

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.