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Demonstrating Feasibility of Blockchain-Driven Carbon Accounting – A Design Study and Demonstrator

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Innovations for Community Services (I4CS 2022)

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Carbon accounting calls for innovative digital infrastructures. The Paris Agreement and the 26th UN Climate Change Conference provide the frame for designing information systems for carbon accounting. This paper explores blockchain as a technology for carbon accounting and, in particular, for the Product Carbon Footprint. This article analyses core architectural designs of carbon footprints, consortia, and smart contract infrastructure. Experiences from the implementation of a carbon footprint blockchain demonstrator are reported. A coffee supply chain exemplifies the approach. Hyperledger Fabric and Minifabric from Hyperledger Labs are the technical frameworks used.

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The Project LIONS is funded by dtec.bw–Digitalization and Technology Research Center of the Bundeswehr which we gratefully acknowledge. We want to thank our research partners from project LIONS for discussions, particularly Tim Hoiss, for his support with the NutriSafe code base, the coffee supply chain use case and his contributions to design and implementation.

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Seidenfad, K., Wagner, T., Hrestic, R., Lechner, U. (2022). Demonstrating Feasibility of Blockchain-Driven Carbon Accounting – A Design Study and Demonstrator. In: Phillipson, F., Eichler, G., Erfurth, C., Fahrnberger, G. (eds) Innovations for Community Services. I4CS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1585. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06668-9_5

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