Tackling carbon emission transparency with The Blockchain OS.

How Cartesi Labs’ grant is supporting Professor Leonardo Marques of Audencia Business School in his research.

For the developers, the tech pioneers, and the idealists, the Cartesi Foundation is all about empowering the future-minded to explore unfounded territories together and develop new applications for Cartesi technology.

We’re excited to share that a Cartesi Labs grant has been awarded to Professor Leonardo Marques of Audencia Business School to research how The Blockchain OS can be used to support the monitoring and disclosure of businesses’ carbon emissions in supply networks.

Tackling the growing climate crisis

Climate change is a global economic, social, and environmental problem that could reach a financial impact of about 5% of the world’s GDP per year [1]. Reduction in carbon emissions has been adopted as the fundamental key performance indicator (KPI) of how corporations can respond to the climate crisis.

However, while we see companies making efforts to reduce their carbon emissions, there is also an increased need for companies to take responsibility for and include emissions occurring outside the direct influence of the company, but still in their extended supply chain.

Termed Scope-3 — these emissions are a consequence of the activities of the company but occur from sources not owned or controlled by the company. Think about the extraction and production of purchased materials, emissions generated from the usage of sold products or services, and even business meetings that involve flying from one place to another.

Driving sustainable solutions with The Blockchain OS.

So how can The Blockchain OS enable companies to truly reduce the impact associated with their business practices? Given the pre-competitive nature of Scope-3 emissions, siding this challenge with blockchain has great benefits for tackling the climate crisis and advancing blockchain technology.

On the costing front, blockchain can reduce the costs of monitoring Scope-3 emissions while ensuring data reliability and transparency thus overcoming the current inhospitable accessibility and blurred liability. On the scaling front, the pre-competitive nature of carbon disclosure and existing horizontal collaborations can reduce the friction between competitors and allow for the scalability of blockchain solutions.

The Blockchain OS, by bringing Linux and mainstream software components to blockchain, makes it even easier for businesses to tap into blockchain-based solutions. Instead of building from scratch, The Blockchain OS allows developers to build decentralized solutions to monitor carbon emissions with the language they’re familiar with and tools already established and matured over the past 30 years, accelerating the implementation of sustainable solutions for businesses the world over.

Empowering communities

Solutions driving the transparency of Scope-3 emissions can empower multiple stakeholders to take effective action, from governments to investors, creditors, and the broader society. Having access to accurate and reliable data, concerned communities are provided the power to demand accountability from companies, whether from stakeholder pressure or well-informed decisions through transparent data.

For the Cartesi community, this provides another use case of The Blockchain OS to address real global problems. We’re passionate about building a brighter future for generations to come and are excited to work with even more new contributors to further real-world applications for The Blockchain OS in addressing global problems.

[1] Stern, N. (2007). The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

About Professor Leonardo Marques

Dr. Leonardo Marques is Associate Professor at Audencia Business School, in Nantes, France. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester and his research focuses on transparency, sustainability, and digitalization in supply networks. He is an author and reviewer in top leading journals including the Journal of Supply Chain Management and the International Journal of Production Economics, and he is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management. Leonardo serves on the Executive Committee of the International Purchasing and Supply Education & Research Association (IPSERA) since 2018 where he has been elected Vice-President in April 2021.

See more from Dr. Leonardo Marques on LinkedIn.

About Cartesi

The Blockchain OS is a decentralized layer-2 infrastructure that supports Linux and mainstream software components. For the first time, developers can code scalable smart contracts with rich software tools, libraries, and the services they’re used to, bridging the gap between mainstream software and blockchain.

Cartesi is enabling millions of new startups and their developers to use The Blockchain OS and bring Linux applications on board. With a groundbreaking virtual machine, optimistic rollups, and side-chains, Cartesi paves the way for developers of all kinds, to build the next generation of blockchain apps.

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