European Green Deal, Digital Economy and Blockchain: the path to sustainability? European Green Deal, digitalização da economia e blockchain: o caminho para a sustentabilidade?
This paper investigates the compatibility of blockchain networks with the sustainable digital economy proposal presented in the EGD. The descriptive exploratory method was used, supported by bibliographic research, which sought, from the database "Portal Periódicos Capes/MEC" and "Goo...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC-PR) |
| Repositorio: | International Journal of Digital Law |
| Idioma: | inglés portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:journal.nuped.com.br:article/291 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://journal.nuped.com.br/index.php/revista/article/view/netto2021 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | European Green Deal digital economy blockchain sustainability decarbonization of the economy |
| Sumario: | This paper investigates the compatibility of blockchain networks with the sustainable digital economy proposal presented in the EGD. The descriptive exploratory method was used, supported by bibliographic research, which sought, from the database "Portal Periódicos Capes/MEC" and "Google Scholar," to develop a broad search for scientific articles. The search focused on articles whose titles mentioned the following terms: European Green Deal; European Green Deal and digital economy; digital economy; digital economy and blockchain; blockchain and sustainability. From the literature review analysis, two hypotheses were raised: a) the new technology's lack of compatibility with sustainability precepts, given its large carbon footprint; b) the offsetting, which results in a negative carbon footprint, if one considers all the carbon emission reductions caused by the adoption of the new blockchain technology. The elements gathered in the research allow to drop a preliminary conclusion asserting that blockchain is compatible with the EGD fundamentals, even considering its high energy consumption, given its disruptive potential and the possibility of reducing carbon emissions in the industrial production chain and the economy. |
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