An Approach to Calculate Crypto Asset Carbon Emissions

Abstract

The calculation of carbon emissions for crypto assets has been explored in various academic and practitioner approaches. However, the analysis of these approaches in this paper reveals that the assumptions and data which are being used are very heterogeneous and thus the results differ enormously. This paper uses an integrated approach that combines a transaction-oriented view, which calculates carbon emissions on single crypto asset transactions, and a network-oriented view, which focuses on carbon emissions from a macro level perspe Show more