Logistic and Blockchain: A Strong Partnership

Economic growth is an important goal for governments. This growth is promoted by economic activities known to be a major emitter of greenhouses gases resulting in climate change. Most of those activities are related to logistics and supply chain sectors. Countries around the world implemented an initiative to control and reduce GHG especially CO
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under a monitory system to trade carbon emission allowances. However, the CET suffered from shortages that degraded its effectiveness. Also, it was not comprehensive enough to cover all sources of CO
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emissions. Many researchers proposed solutions to elevate the present CET scheme in which the technology of blockchain was utilized. Blockchain presented itself as an ideal solution for the current CET market due to its characteristics of transparency, immutability, security, and decentralization. However, non of the previous work was adequate or comprehensive enough. This research proposes a comprehensive blockchain-based framework to support and CET that integrates IoT devices and includes logistics and supply chain sectors. Our framework collects full data about CO
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emissions directly from all sources and shares them securely and immutably among stakeholders. It enhances making decisions on economic processes that reduce CO
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emission as well as trading allowances.