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Are carbon offsets the key to green cryptocurrencies? 碳补偿是绿色加密货币的关键吗?
Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000002
Aakash Lamba
Cryptocurrencies have seen a meteoric rise in their adoption and value over the past decade. For instance, the most widely-traded cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, which started at only a few cents per token in 2009 when it was first mined [1], crossed an all-time high price of more than USD68,000 in November 2021 [2]. Largely made possible with the rise of blockchain technology, a cryptocurrency is essentially a digital form of money that allows the transfer of value directly between users, without requiring an intervening financial institution [1]. A blockchain is a system where records of transactions are distributed across multiple users in a network as encrypted ‘blocks’ [1,3,4]. The users in a blockchain network participate in both the creation of new tokens (equivalent to ‘minting’ new money), as well as the authentication of these records through complex mathematical operations on their computers, which is referred to as ‘mining’ [1]. This decentralized ‘distributed ledger’ prevents the false modification of records [3] and allows for a more secure, trustworthy and scalable way to make financial transactions [1]. These advantages have led to significant growth in this sector. However, the massive energy consumption of mining cryptocurrencies and consequently their carbon footprint is a significant environmental concern. Studies suggest that the annual carbon emissions from the Bitcoin network alone could potentially exceed 90 MtCO2e, which surpasses the total carbon footprint of some of the most populous cities in the world including Beijing, Sao Paulo and New Delhi (www.citycarbonfootprints.info) [5]. In response to these environmental costs, several approaches to make cryptocurrencies more sustainable are being explored. These either attempt to directly decarbonize cryptocurrencies by reducing emissions or try to compensate for their adverse climate impacts through negative emissions from carbon offsets. Naturally, both these pathways are needed in tandem to achieve carbon neutrality [6]. However, due to the significant constraints that limit the future decarbonization of this sector, connecting cryptocurrencies to carbon offsets is arguably the most practical approach for mitigating their climate impact.
在过去的十年里,加密货币的采用率和价值都在迅速上升。例如,交易最广泛的加密货币比特币,在2009年首次开采时,每个代币的价格仅为几美分[1],在2021年11月突破了超过68,000美元的历史新高[2]。随着区块链技术的兴起,加密货币在很大程度上成为可能,它本质上是一种数字形式的货币,允许直接在用户之间转移价值,而不需要金融机构的干预[1]。区块链是一个系统,其中交易记录作为加密的“块”分布在网络中的多个用户中[1,3,4]。区块链网络中的用户既参与新代币的创建(相当于“铸造”新货币),也参与通过计算机上复杂的数学运算对这些记录进行认证,这被称为“挖掘”[1]。这种去中心化的“分布式账本”防止了对记录的虚假修改[3],并允许一种更安全、可信和可扩展的方式来进行金融交易[1]。这些优势导致了该领域的显著增长。然而,开采加密货币的大量能源消耗及其碳足迹是一个重大的环境问题。研究表明,仅比特币网络每年的碳排放量就可能超过9000万吨二氧化碳当量,超过了包括北京、圣保罗和新德里在内的世界上一些人口最多的城市的碳足迹总量(www.citycarbonfootprints.info)[5]。为了应对这些环境成本,人们正在探索几种使加密货币更具可持续性的方法。它们要么试图通过减少排放直接使加密货币脱碳,要么试图通过碳抵消的负排放来补偿其对气候的不利影响。当然,要实现碳中和,这两种途径需要同时进行[6]。然而,由于限制该行业未来脱碳的重大制约因素,将加密货币与碳抵消联系起来可以说是减轻其气候影响的最实用方法。
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引用次数: 4
Identifying beneficiaries for sustainable development in low- and middle-income countries 确定低收入和中等收入国家可持续发展的受益者
Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000003
Arindam Roy
Implementation projects on sustainable development have already triggered the global transfer of funds through multi-lateral agencies. The selection of beneficiaries at the local level is an intriguing problem in the developmental sector and does not have a single-window solution. In absence of equitable selection, a fraction of beneficiaries might be benefitted over and over again and the rest remain deprived. The proposed opinion will discuss the challenges of selecting beneficiaries in the developing countries and shade lights in some of the probable solutions which can be used. The present opinion also suggest measures needs to be taken by funding agency, and implementing agency to create more transparent framework and assure maximal utilization of available funds.
关于可持续发展的执行项目已经通过多边机构引发了全球资金转移。在地方一级选择受益者是发展部门的一个令人感兴趣的问题,并没有单一窗口的解决办法。在没有公平选择的情况下,一小部分受益人可能会一次又一次地受益,而其余的人则会被剥夺。拟议的意见将讨论在发展中国家选择受益者所面临的挑战,并讨论一些可能采用的解决办法。本意见还建议,供资机构和执行机构需要采取措施,建立更透明的框架,并确保最大限度地利用现有资金。
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引用次数: 0
Reducing environmental impacts of marine biotoxin monitoring: A laboratory report 减少海洋生物毒素监测对环境的影响:一份实验室报告
Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pstr.0000001
Jane Kilcoyne, Y. Bogan, C. Duffy, T. Hollowell
Laboratories globally contribute significantly to consumption of resources, greenhouse gas emissions, and generation of waste. Shellfish destined for human consumption are required to be tested for the presence of regulated marine biotoxins, that can be harmful to human health. Whilst running the national monitoring program for the detection of biotoxins in shellfish, efforts were made to increase resource efficiencies by reducing waste and energy consumption leading to reduced environmental and financial costs. Methods were verified to allow transitions to more sustainable and environmentally-friendly consumables, replacing plastics with paperboard and glass alternatives, leading to a reduction in the consumption of single-use plastics by 69%. A shift to polystyrene recycling and composting non-toxic shellfish waste led to an overall reduction in non-chemical waste of >95%. Adoption of green analytical chemistry principles to procurement and preparation of chemical solutions led to a reduction in hazardous chemical waste by ~23%. A further reduction in printing (~81%) was achieved by transitioning to digital document control. Strategies to reduce energy consumption through ‘switch off’ campaigns and improved fume hood and cold storage equipment management were also implemented. Fume hood and cold storage equipment energy consumption was reduced by 30%. The strategies implemented could be adopted by other laboratories e.g., monitoring and research laboratories dealing with pharmaceutical, biological, and environmental samples.
全球的实验室对资源消耗、温室气体排放和废物产生做出了重大贡献。供人类食用的贝类必须经过检测,以确定是否存在可能对人类健康有害的受管制的海洋生物毒素。在开展贝类生物毒素检测国家监测项目的同时,努力通过减少浪费和能源消耗来提高资源效率,从而降低环境和财政成本。经过验证的方法允许向更可持续和更环保的消耗品过渡,用纸板和玻璃替代品取代塑料,从而将一次性塑料的消费量减少了69%。转向聚苯乙烯回收和无毒贝类废物堆肥导致非化学废物总体减少95%以上。在化学溶液的采购和制备中采用绿色分析化学原理,使危险化学废物减少了约23%。通过过渡到数字文件控制,进一步减少了印刷(约81%)。通过“关闭”活动和改进通风柜和冷库设备管理来减少能源消耗的策略也得到了实施。通风柜和冷库设备能耗降低30%。所实施的战略可被其他实验室采用,例如处理药物、生物和环境样品的监测和研究实验室。
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引用次数: 3
Protecting Our Future: What Contribution Can I Make? 保护我们的未来:我能做什么贡献?
Pub Date : 2021-11-29 DOI: 10.22541/au.163820056.62943303/v1
Bernward Gesang
A)The crises related to climate and the economy endanger future andcurrent generations, but altering the small impact or minimal emissionsof an individual person is-because of the failure of politicalcoordination-not the best way to overcome these crises. B) When we act as individuals to act as stopgaps for policy to minimisethe mountain of problems, the following applies: We should not waste ourenergies on limited involvements in small, primarily symboliccollaborations but should instead endeavour to make the biggestdifference of which we are capable with regard to improving the world. C) We make the biggest difference when our limited budget for improvingthe world is used against poverty, for example, and combatting povertyis precisely what brings positive side effects with regard to humanrights and the protection of the climate, animals and species. Forexample, support for poor farmers in rain forests can save those rainforests. Every CO2 calculator demonstrates that commitment to the ThirdWorld is up to 50 times more efficient than personal emissionsreductions.
A)与气候和经济有关的危机危及子孙后代,但是由于政治协调的失败,改变个人的微小影响或最小排放并不是克服这些危机的最佳方法。B)当我们作为个人采取行动,作为政策的权宜之计,以尽量减少堆积如山的问题时,以下几点适用:我们不应该把精力浪费在有限的小的、主要是象征性的合作上,而应该努力在改善世界方面尽我们所能发挥最大的作用。C)例如,当我们用于改善世界的有限预算用于消除贫困时,我们会产生最大的影响,而消除贫困恰恰会在人权和保护气候、动物和物种方面带来积极的副作用。例如,支持热带雨林中的贫困农民可以拯救这些热带雨林。每一个二氧化碳计算器都表明,对第三世界的承诺比个人减排的效率高出50倍。
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引用次数: 0
A slow road from meat dominance to more sustainable diets: an analysis of purchase preferences 从肉类主导到更可持续饮食的缓慢之路:对购买偏好的分析
Pub Date : 2021-10-19 DOI: 10.1101/2021.11.25.21266850
M. Erkkola, Satu Kinnunen, H. Vepsäläinen, J. Meinilä, L. Uusitalo, H. Konttinen, Hannu Saarijärvi, M. Fogelholm, J. Nevalainen
Background: Achieving a sustainable and healthy diet requires increased replacement of red meat with more sustainable foods. There is a call for novel methodologies to assess the potential of different interventions and policies in enhancing the transition from the current to more sustainable choices. Objective: We aimed to characterize consumer clusters with similar preferences in protein sources, to compare the purchase prices of these foods, and to identify ongoing transitions from one protein source to another. Design: Grocery purchase data with individual attributes on 29,437 consenting loyalty card holders were analyzed over 2.3 year period. We designed a sequence analysis to group participants to clusters with similar purchase preferences over the follow-up period and to estimate transition probabilities between preferences. We studied the determinants of prevalent purchase profiles by ordinal logistic models. Results: We identified six participant profiles with similar preferences in four protein sources: red meat, poultry, fish, and plant-based foods. Red meat dominated the purchase preferences and showed the highest persistence over time. The majority (70%) of the participants demonstrated somewhat mixed purchase profiles. A step-by-step transition from red meat towards plant-based food preference seems most likely via poultry and fish. Overall, low income was not a barrier to a more sustainable purchase profile, while price may deter the purchase of fish. The most important resources in choosing more sustainable profiles were education and stage of family life. Conclusions: Societal incentives for sustainable food choices seem most crucial at transition stages of life course and for the less educated. Here we also demonstrate that grocery purchase data offer a valuable tool for monitoring the progressive transition towards a healthy and sustainable food system.
背景:实现可持续和健康的饮食需要用更可持续的食物更多地替代红肉。需要采用新的方法来评估不同干预措施和政策在促进从目前的选择向更可持续的选择过渡方面的潜力。目的:我们旨在描述对蛋白质来源有相似偏好的消费者群体,比较这些食物的购买价格,并确定从一种蛋白质来源到另一种蛋白质来源的持续转变。设计:在2.3年的时间里,对29,437名忠诚卡持卡人的个人属性杂货购买数据进行了分析。我们设计了一个序列分析,在随访期间将具有相似购买偏好的参与者分组,并估计偏好之间的转换概率。我们通过有序逻辑模型研究了流行购买概况的决定因素。结果:我们确定了六名参与者,他们对四种蛋白质来源有相似的偏好:红肉、家禽、鱼和植物性食物。红肉在购买偏好中占主导地位,并且随着时间的推移表现出最高的持久性。大多数(70%)的参与者表现出一些复杂的购买概况。从红肉逐步过渡到植物性食物偏好似乎最有可能通过家禽和鱼类。总的来说,低收入并不是更可持续购买的障碍,而价格可能会阻碍购买鱼类。在选择更可持续的轮廓时,最重要的资源是教育和家庭生活阶段。结论:对可持续食品选择的社会激励似乎在生命历程的过渡阶段和受教育程度较低的人群中最为重要。在这里,我们还证明了杂货购买数据为监测向健康和可持续食品系统的逐步过渡提供了有价值的工具。
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引用次数: 9
The hidden value of trees: quantifying the ecosystem services of tree lineages and their major threats across the continental US 树木的隐藏价值:量化美国大陆树木谱系的生态系统服务及其主要威胁
Pub Date : 2019-11-18 DOI: 10.32942/osf.io/gp7mt
J. Cavender-Bares, E. Nelson, J. E. Meireles, J. Lasky, D. Miteva, D. Nowak, W. Pearse, M. Helmus, A. Zanne, W. Fagan, Christopher Mihiar, Nathan Z. Muller, Nathan J B Kraft, S. Polasky
Trees provide critical contributions to human well-being. They sequester and store greenhouse gasses, filter air pollutants, and provide wood, food, and other products, among other benefits. However, global change threatens these benefits. To quantify the monetary value of US trees and the threats they face, we combine macroevolutionary and economic valuation approaches using spatially explicit information about species and lineages. We show that the value of ecosystem services generated by trees in forests, orchards, and plantations in the US - $114 billion annually (low: $85 B; high: $137 B; 2010 USD) across five key services for which we had adequate data. The high value of trees is a consequence of both their abundance and diversity. The carbon storage and air pollution removal values of US trees far exceed their commercial value from wood product and food crops. Yet the most valuable US tree species and lineages are also among those most threatened by known pests and pathogens, climate change and increasing fire risk. While US tree crops are often provided by the same lineages in different regions, the high ecosystem service value of carbon and air pollution removal depends on different lineages in different regions. The composition of tree species that provide critical ecosystem services are likely to shift with global change, highlighting the importance of maintaining forest abundance and diversity.
树木为人类福祉做出了重要贡献。它们隔离和储存温室气体,过滤空气污染物,提供木材、食物和其他产品,以及其他好处。然而,全球变化威胁到了这些好处。为了量化美国树木的货币价值及其面临的威胁,我们将宏观进化和经济评估方法结合起来,使用关于物种和谱系的空间明确信息。我们表明,美国森林、果园和种植园中树木产生的生态系统服务价值-每年1140亿美元(最低:850亿美元;最高:1370亿美元;我们有足够数据的五个关键服务。树木的高价值是它们丰富多样的结果。美国树木的碳储存和空气污染去除价值远远超过木材产品和粮食作物的商业价值。然而,美国最有价值的树种和血统也是最受已知害虫和病原体、气候变化和日益增加的火灾风险威胁的树种之一。美国乔木作物往往由不同地区的相同谱系提供,但去除碳和空气污染的高生态系统服务价值取决于不同地区的不同谱系。提供关键生态系统服务的树种组成可能随着全球变化而变化,这突出了保持森林丰富度和多样性的重要性。
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引用次数: 11
Climate change resilient agricultural practices: A learning experience from indigenous communities over India 适应气候变化的农业实践:来自印度土著社区的学习经验
Pub Date : 2019-10-03 DOI: 10.31223/osf.io/s9dvz
Amitava Aich, D. Dey, Arindam Roy
The impact of climate change on agricultural practices is raising question marks on future food security of billions of people in tropical and subtropical regions. Recently introduced, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) techniques encourage the practices of sustainable agriculture, increasing adaptive capacity and resilience to shocks at multiple levels. However, it is extremely difficult to develop a single framework for climate change resilient agricultural practices for different agrarian production landscape. Agriculture accounts for nearly 30% of Indian gross domestic product (GDP) and provide livelihood of nearly two-thirds of the population of the country. Due to the major dependency on rain-fed irrigation, Indian agriculture is vulnerable to rainfall anomaly, pest invasion, and extreme climate events. Due to their close relationship with environment and resources, indigenous people are considered as one of the most vulnerable community affected by the changing climate. In the milieu of the climate emergency, multiple indigenous tribes from different agroecological zones over India have been selected in the present study to explore the adaptive potential of indigenous traditional knowledge (ITK)-based agricultural practices against climate change. The selected tribes are inhabitants of Eastern Himalaya (Apatani), Western Himalaya (Lahaulas), Eastern Ghat (Dongria-Gondh), and Western Ghat (Irular) representing rainforest, cold desert, moist upland, and rain shadow landscape, respectively. The effect of climate change over the respective regions was identified using different Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenario, and agricultural practices resilient to climate change were quantified. Primary results indicated moderate to extreme susceptibility and preparedness of the tribes against climate change due to the exceptionally adaptive ITK-based agricultural practices. A brief policy has been prepared where knowledge exchange and technology transfer among the indigenous tribes have been suggested to achieve complete climate change resiliency.
气候变化对农业生产方式的影响给热带和亚热带地区数十亿人口未来的粮食安全打上了问号。最近推出的气候智慧型农业(CSA)技术鼓励可持续农业实践,在多个层面提高适应能力和抵御冲击的能力。然而,针对不同的农业生产格局,制定一个适应气候变化的农业实践的单一框架是极其困难的。农业占印度国内生产总值(GDP)的近30%,为该国近三分之二的人口提供生计。由于主要依赖雨水灌溉,印度农业容易受到降雨异常、害虫入侵和极端气候事件的影响。由于土著人民与环境和资源的密切关系,他们被认为是受气候变化影响最脆弱的群体之一。在气候紧急情况的背景下,本研究选择了来自印度不同农业生态区的多个土著部落,以探索基于土著传统知识(ITK)的农业实践对气候变化的适应潜力。被选中的部落分别是东喜马拉雅(Apatani)、西喜马拉雅(Lahaulas)、东高特(Dongria-Gondh)和西高特(Irular)的居民,分别代表雨林、寒冷沙漠、潮湿高地和雨荫景观。利用不同的政府间气候变化专门委员会(IPCC)情景,确定了气候变化对各区域的影响,并量化了适应气候变化的农业实践。初步结果表明,由于特别适应性的基于信息技术的农业实践,部落对气候变化具有中等到极端的敏感性和准备能力。制定了一项简短的政策,其中建议在土著部落之间进行知识交流和技术转让,以实现完全的气候变化复原力。
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