加拿大国际治理创新中心CIGI：加密货币对环境有什么影响？（英文版）

The increasing importance of emerging digital assets has created a multifaceted environmental challenge and opportunity. This paper explores one form of emerging digital asset, cryptocurrency (crypto), and the causal factors that drive its environmental impact. While cryptocurrency makes up a relatively small proportion of overall global electricity consumption (0.6 percent) and carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (0.2 percent), the electricity demand associated with its mining operations is