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(BTC).
''Environmental policy''.  


Bitcoin is a digital currency that is created, and effectively administered without recourse to a central bank or other central authority.
Key component of national and international attempts to reduce the increase in concentrations of greenhouse gases.


It was launched in 2009.
One carbon credit is the right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>).  




Bitcoin is sometimes abbreviated to 'BC', rather than BTC.
== See also ==
* [[Cap and trade]]
* [[Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism]]
* [[Carbon footprint]]
* [[Carbon tax]]
* [[Carbon trading]]
* [[Net zero]]
* [[Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting]]


 
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Environmental costs & macroeconomic instability'''''</span>
 
:"From 7 September 2021 bitcoin [became] legal tender in El Salvador despite warnings from the IMF and the World Bank citing the potential impact on macroeconomic stability and bitcoin’s environmental costs."
 
:''Association of Corporate Treasurers - Update on the Payments landscape - September 2021.''
 
 
==See also==
 
* [[Altcoin]]
*[[Bit]]
*[[Blockchain]]
*[[Britcoin]]
* [[Blockchain Governance Initiative Network]]  (BGIN)
* [[Centralised finance]]
* [[Coin]]
* [[Crypto-assets]]
* [[Cryptocurrency]]
* [[Daisy chain]]
* [[Data]]
* [[Database]]
* [[Decentralised finance]]  (DeFi)
* [[Digital asset]]
* [[Digital currency]]
* [[Distributed ledger]]
* [[ekrona]]
* [[Ether]]
* [[Ethereum]]
* [[Fintech]]
* [[Layer 1 network]]
* [[Layer 2 network]]
* [[Non-fungible token]]
* [[Payments and payment systems]]
* [[Platform]]
* [[Ripple payment protocol]]
* [[Smart contract]]
* [[Stablecoin]]
* [[SWIFT gpi]]
* [[Token]]
* [[TradFi]]
 
 
===Other resources===
*[http://www.chicagofed.org/digital_assets/publications/chicago_fed_letter/2013/cfldecember2013_317.pdf?goback=%2Egde_1799642_member_5805378057078321153#%21 Bitcoin: a primer,  Chicago Fed Dec 2013]
* [https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/digital-currencies Bank of England - Digital currencies]
 
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Environmental policy.

Key component of national and international attempts to reduce the increase in concentrations of greenhouse gases.

One carbon credit is the right to emit one tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2).


See also