Is it Green? Designing a Blockchain-based Certification System for Green Hydrogen

The severity of climate change impacts various aspects of human life today, with projections of up to six degrees of global warming by 2100 if significant changes are not adopted. (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2021). Among others, the energy supply cannot be solely fossil-based but need to adopt alternative ways of generation,...

Untangling the Wild West: Exploring the applicability of blockchain-based applications to prevent double counting in the voluntary carbon by developing a multi-level governance blockchain evaluation framework

The modern world is under great pressure to fight climate change and limit global temperature rises to a sustainable level. As part of new mitigation strategies, the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) emerged after the compliance markets materialized. Via the voluntary carbon market companies can offset their carbon emissions. The captured carbon is...

Exploring a blockchain design for the European emission trading system: an interoperable, secure, and automatized data sharing architecture

As the Earth's temperature rises, it is critical that countries address and adapt to climate change. The European Union (EU) is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 (European Commission, 2018).The cornerstone of the EU’s climate policy to combat climate change is the EU Emission Trading System (ETS). It is the world’s first major...

A Blockchain-based Mobility as a Service concept design with the adoption of Autonomous Vehicles: An exploratory study of the most elemental systems, requirements and possible configurations

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to introduce numerous changes, opportunities, and innovations in mobility services, environment, data, value networks, and economy, among others. These automated vehicles are expected to impulse a disruptive change in society, especially within transport technology economics, travel behavior, and network...

Introducing Blockchain to Commercial Real Estate: Exploring the applicability of blockchain technology in lowering transaction costs of the commercial real estate due diligence process

The global market for real estate has experienced a significant growth since the financial crisis in 2008. The current global value amounts to more than $200 trillion and comprises nearly 60% of the value of all global assets, including equities, bonds, and gold. Yet, the commercial real estate market is inefficient and opaque due to its...

Self-Sovereign Identities for Scaling Up Cash Transfer Projects: Designing a blockchain based digital identity system

Situation: Information management enables humanitarian organizations to make adequate interventions based on timely, appropriate and trustworthy information. A crucial type of information are identities, because they can be used to assess vulnerability and efficiently manage aid distribution. Vulnerability determines who receives aid first...

The implications of unlocking decentralised flexibility: A comparative analysis of the intermediary aggregator vs. blockchain technology by considering a system integration perspective

The Netherlands currently lacks a large scale aggregation system which can unlock decentralised flexibility to improve the reliability of the electricity grid in the presence of a significant amount of variable renewable energy sources. In this reserach, the aggregator blockchain technology is perceived as an enabler for a decentralised...