{"id":1750852,"date":"2022-11-25T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750852"},"modified":"2022-11-25T06:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:03:03","slug":"new-visa-card-features-personal-carbon-emissions-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-visa-card-features-personal-carbon-emissions-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"New Visa Card Features Personal Carbon Emissions Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-visa-card-features-personal-carbon-emissions-tracker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750852&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The monitoring of personal behavior by banks will take another step forward as Canadian credit union Vancity launches a new credit card technology to report users\u2019 carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 19, Vancity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancity.com\/AboutVancity\/News\/MediaReleases\/VancityAnnouncesAnotherFirstAcreditcardthatcountsyourcarbonfootprint\/\">announced<\/a> that it will be \u201cthe first financial institution in Canada to offer its individual and business members a way to estimate the CO2 emissions that come from their purchases.\u201d Vancity said its carbon counter, which is attached to Visa credit cards, was developed with ecolytiq, one of Europe\u2019s leading climate engagement technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first carbon counter program for Visa holders. Mastercard already provides a CO2 emissions-tracking card, developed with technology from Swedish company Doconomy. The Visa credit card technology developed by ecolytiq also provides \u201ceducation and behavioral nudging\u201d so that card users are not only informed about the CO2 emissions of their buying activity but also told how to reduce them.<\/p>\n<p>According to ecolytiq, \u201cthe financial industry will play a major role in fighting climate change. Our Sustainability-as-a-Service solution enables financial institutions to offer their customers environmental footprinting as well as personalized impact offsetting and ESG investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other tech companies are joining in this quest. Michael Evans, president of Alibaba Group, a Chinese tech company, announced at the World Economic Forum in 2021 that his company was developing an \u201cindividual carbon footprint tracker\u201d that will monitor people\u2019s behavior in terms of \u201cwhere they are traveling, how they are traveling, what they are eating, what they are consuming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While this technology was ostensibly developed to fight climate change, many worry that is a first step toward personal social credit scores and could be used to track other types of behavior besides carbon emissions. For example, credit card companies Visa, Mastercard, and American Express announced in September that they would begin tracking purchases made at gun stores.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the Biden administration is moving forward with an initiative to create a Central Bank Digital Currency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-cbdc\">CBDC<\/a>), which could ultimately replace the U.S. dollar. In place of bank deposits, a CBDC would be a digital currency issued directly by the federal government that people or banks would hold in digital wallets, similar to bitcoins. But by contrast to bitcoins, a CBDC would be controlled by either the Federal Reserve or the U.S. Treasury Department.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden took a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2022\/03\/09\/executive-order-on-ensuring-responsible-development-of-digital-assets\/\">first step<\/a> in March toward creating a U.S. CBDC, directing his administration to report to him by October on how it would create a digital currency.<\/p>\n<p>Biden stated, \u201cMy administration places the highest urgency on research and development efforts into the potential design and deployment options of a United States CBDC.\u201d Other countries are also in the race to develop their own digital currencies. Among the priorities that Biden set for the CBDC were fighting climate change and \u201cfinancial inclusion and equity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also instructed his attorney general, Merrick Garland, to determine whether or not he will need Congressional approval to launch a CBDC, or whether the Biden administration could do it on its own. That report has since been delayed.<\/p>\n<p>In February, however, the Boston Fed completed the first phase of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonfed.org\/publications\/one-time-pubs\/project-hamilton-phase-1-executive-summary.aspx\">Project Hamilton<\/a>, a CBDC simulation it developed with MIT\u2019s Digital Currency Initiative. And on Nov. 21, the Fed launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbanker.com\/payments\/news\/new-york-fed-advances-tests-of-cbdcs-for-cross-border-payments\">pilot program<\/a> to test a digital dollar through its New York Innovation Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkfed.org\/aboutthefed\/nyic\/facilitating-wholesale-digital-asset-settlement\">stated<\/a> that \u201cthe New York Innovation Center (NYIC) is participating in a proof-of-concept project along with members of the private sector to explore the feasibility of an interoperable network of digital central bank liabilities and commercial bank digital money.\u201d This program is being done in collaboration with BNY Mellon, Citibank, HSBC, Mastercard, PNC Bank, TD Bank, Truist, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.<\/p>\n<p>Among the world\u2019s major economies, the China\u2019s ruling communist regime was among the first to issue a CBDC. In 2020, it introduced the e-CNY or digital yuan. By the end of 2021, the digital yuan had <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/01\/18\/chinas-digital-yuan-wallet-now-has-260-million-individual-users\/\">260 million users<\/a>, representing about one-fifth of China\u2019s population, according to the People\u2019s Bank of China. China\u2019s CBDC gives its central bank access to, and control over, every digital yuan transaction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-kevin-stocklin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Kevin-Stocklin.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Stocklin\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kevin Stocklin is a writer, film producer, and former investment banker. He wrote and produced &#8220;We All Fall Down: The American Mortgage Crisis,&#8221; a 2008 documentary on the collapse of the U.S. mortgage finance system.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monitoring of personal behavior by banks will take another step forward as Canadian credit union Vancity launches a new credit card technology to report users\u2019 carbon emissions.On Oct. 19,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1725342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}