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生物多样性数据监测的需求展开。目前，大量的机构投资正在投入到自然资本中，其中大部分投资集中在碳去除或避免二氧化碳排放计划上，作为主要的生态系统服务。虽然值得赞赏和非常需要，但将碳作为项目的唯一属性有很大的风险，导致实际退化景观的行动（例如种植非本地单一栽培种植园），对缓解行动以及对未来冲击（例如气候变化、虫害、疾病）的抵御能力产生重大的长期不利影响。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，例如森林计划或景观再生。提案的后半部分是考虑如何将这些数据嵌入到项目特征中，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，并对此进行更广泛的应用。能够将生物多样性元数据不可变地编码到项目中或编码到智能碳信用中，将永久地将这些属性嵌入到金融交易中，并通过供应链进行跟踪，这是金融机构日益重要的考虑因素。他们心目中的客户是进入自然资本领域的资产管理公司。还有一个次要客户——政府，特别是环境与食品事务部。英国政府正在推出环境土地管理系统，设想为“公共产品计划的公共支付”，以取代欧盟共同农业政策的土地补贴。这些公益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生态系统管理至关重要。我们提出的解决方案可以为基于实际监测数据的自动支付奠定基础，在某种程度上，Defra的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，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。