GHG Emissions Validation via Blockchain Intermediary
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to accurately and transparently gather and validate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the entire supply chain for a final product, leading to incomplete and unreliable reporting, as manufacturers typically only account for emissions from their own facilities and lack access to emissions data from upstream suppliers.
Innovation Solution
A transparent GHG emissions validation and reporting service system operates within a database management system (DBMS) control platform, gathering, verifying, and storing data from multiple entities in the supply chain, using blockchain technology to ensure data authenticity and security, and reporting emissions in a format accessible to authorized parties.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manufacturers only account for emissions from their own facilities, then reporting is simpler and more reliable for that specific entity, but the overall supply chain emissions reporting becomes incomplete and unreliable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized emissions validation and reporting system that acts as an intermediary between manufacturers and consumers. This system collects emissions data from multiple manufacturers, validates it against standardized criteria, and provides comprehensive supply chain emissions reporting. The intermediary system enables manufacturers to report their facility-specific emissions while also aggregating and validating upstream emissions data from suppliers, thereby resolving the contradiction between simple reliable reporting and complete supply chain information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs multiple functions within a single platform: it collects emissions data from manufacturers, validates data authenticity using blockchain technology, aggregates supply chain emissions information, and provides transparent reporting to consumers. This multi-functional approach enables the system to simultaneously ensure reliable manufacturer reporting and achieve complete supply chain emissions data availability.
2Loss of information
If the system gathers and validates data from multiple supply chain entities, then emissions reporting becomes comprehensive and transparent, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized validation system serves as an intermediary that standardizes the interaction with multiple supply chain entities. It provides a unified interface for data collection, validation, and reporting, thereby managing the complexity of working with numerous manufacturers and suppliers through standardized protocols and centralized processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex manual verification processes with automated blockchain-based validation mechanisms. Blockchain technology provides cryptographic verification of emissions data authenticity, automatically validating data from multiple entities without requiring complex manual checking procedures, thus reducing operational complexity while maintaining comprehensive data validation.
3Reliability
If blockchain technology is used to ensure data authenticity, then data security and tamper-proofing improve, but the implementation complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces complex manual data verification and security measures with blockchain technology. The distributed ledger provides cryptographic hashing and chaining mechanisms that automatically ensure data authenticity and prevent tampering, eliminating the need for complex manual verification systems while enhancing security.
Solution Approach 2:
Blockchain technology enables the system to self-verify data authenticity through cryptographic mechanisms. Each emission data entry is hashed and chained to previous entries, creating a self-validating structure that automatically detects tampering without requiring external verification, thereby reducing implementation complexity while maintaining high reliability.
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AI summary
A system and a method of reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions based on transparently gathered and verified data may comprise receiving a query, via a graphical user interface (GUI), identifying an end-product, retrieving from a database repository an overall GHG emission value determined based on a GHG emission equation and a plurality of data field values of reported GHG emissions stored in the database repository and having a secure source and chain of possession as verified by a database management system (DBMS) platform orchestrating access to the database repository, determining a distributed GHG emission value describing GHG emitted during manufacture of the end-product, based on the overall GHG emission value and a number of the end-products manufactured and supply chain reporting over a reporting period, and displaying the distributed GHG emission value via the GUI.