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The Paris Agreement sets forth a global effort to limit climate warming to well below 2 ℃, necessitating collaborative actions among economically competitive nations. This research introduces a distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based system designed to uphold sovereign data control while facilitating cross-national enforcement of CO2 emissions monitoring and reduction policies. Drawing insights from the implementation of vehicular fuel consumption metering in the European Union, we leverage the framework of coopetition theory to elucidate the potential alignment of disparate interests towards a common environmental goal, with due regard to national autonomy. We present a DLT prototype, developed via a design science methodology, aimed at monitoring and reducing automotive CO2 emissions across Europe. This prototype serves as an exemplar of how innovative solutions can mediate competing interests, promoting cooperation on an international scale.
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Beck, R., Schletz, M., Baggio, A., Gentile, L. (2023). Distributed Ledger Technology for Collective Environmental Action. In: Younas, M., Awan, I., Benbernou, S., Petcu, D. (eds) The 4th Joint International Conference on Deep Learning, Big Data and Blockchain (DBB 2023). Deep-BDB 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 768. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42317-8_1
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