Blockchain of carbon trading for UN sustainable development goals
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Carbon credits should reduce the environmental pollution and carbon emission of the Earth in the future. The market for carbon credits will become a critical issue from 2021, and carbon credits will be applied to systems where individuals can trade. In order for these carbon credits to be traded between individuals, however, a corresponding exchange of carbon credits is needed. Policies, strategies, and technologies are also necessary to measure the trading of carbon credits. This paper aims at making transactions more reliable by applying blockchain technology to measure carbon emission rights. It uses blockchain to verify carbon emissions rights among the UN-SDGs’ (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals’) 17 tasks. In addition, it introduces the necessary dApp. In fact, we can protect against carbon emissions anomalies by using big data and artificial intelligence in mobile cloud environments. Thus, this paper proposes a blockchain-based carbon emission rights verification system to learn proven data further by using the governance system analysis and blockchain mainnet engine to solve these problems.
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- Authors
- Kim, S.-K., & Huh, J.-H.
- Affiliations
- Sungkyunkwan University (KR)
- Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KR)
- Corresponding author
- Huh, Jun-Ho
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2020-05-14
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 4021
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3024710966
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 13.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- dx.doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) (No. 2017R1C1B5077157)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Keywords
- blockchain, carbon credits, emissions trading, Sustainable Development Goals, decentralized applications, big data, artificial intelligence, mobile cloud computing
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