Carbon insetting as a measure to raise supply chain energy efficiency potentials: Opportunities and challenges

Ebersold, Felix; Hechelmann, Ron-Hendrik; Holzapfel, Peter; Meschede, Henning

doi:10.1016/j.ecmx.2023.100504

Energy Conversion and Management: X

2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecmx.2023.100504

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Carbon insetting as a measure to raise supply chain energy efficiency potentials: Opportunities and challenges

Felix Ebersold,

Ron-Hendrik Hechelmann,

Peter Holzapfel

et al.

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Contestations in the emerging soil-based carbon economy: towards a research agenda

Ingram,

Maye,

Reed

2025

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This paper highlights the need to consider the processes and relations in the political, knowledge, technical and socio-material complex that underpins the emergence of a soil-based carbon economy. This economy, characterised by the proliferation of voluntary soil-based carbon markets, carbon farming policies, supply chain and other initiatives, operates through private mechanisms (offsetting, insetting) and public policy instruments. This emerging economy entails a number of inherent political and knowledge contestations associated with claims around the mitigation potential of soil carbon sequestration and carbon farming. We adapt a social ecological systems (SES) framework to understand these contestations and draw on a corpus of agricultural, ecological, political and social science literatures to identify and pose critical questions for future research. We conceptualise the emerging soil-based carbon economy as interactions and outcomes among actors embedded within a defined SES (governance, resource systems, resource units, actors). Five themes are identified: Marketisation, abstraction and technogovernance; Power relations and expert knowledge; Disputing the meaning and value of soil carbon; Disruptions: new interfaces, configurations and actor relations; Uncertainties and capabilities. These underpin a research agenda proposal. We argue that an integrative conceptualisation is essential to equitably account for the broad mix of social, technical, economic, political, and ecological contexts in which soil carbon is embedded and present options for operationalising the conceptualisation.

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Contestations in the emerging soil-based carbon economy: towards a research agenda

Ingram,

Maye,

Reed

2025

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Advanced technological options for sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems upgrade towards climate neutrality

Astiaso Garcia,

Dionysis,

Raskovic

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Blockchain Empowerment: Unveiling Managerial Choices in Carbon Finance Investment Across Supply Chains

Zhu,

Duan,

Sarkis

2024

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We examine the potential of blockchain technology for carbon financing by organizations and within supply chains. Blockchain can provide transparent, trustworthy, secure, and efficient carbon‐related transactions. Signaling and attribution theories inform the study that uses choice‐based conjoint (CBC) experimentation to evaluate offsetting and insetting carbon finance investment scenarios. Factors on project attributes—including price, the scope of carbon finance project, blockchain adoption level, and stakeholder involvement—relationships to managerial investment decisions are investigated. We also investigate an important question on whether managerial ecological value propensity affects investment decisions and blockchain adoption preferences. The findings show that contrary to original suppositions, price was not as influential as presumed. Of greater concern to managerial decisions is the nature of carbon initiatives—the decision on whether to pursue carbon offsetting and/or insetting investments. Managerial environmental values significantly influenced decisions on carbon finance investments–with a preference for carbon reduction projects within their own supply chains. There is also an inclination for greater blockchain technology usage in carbon investment projects. Managers with greater ecological values were also more open to involving external parties favoring the adoption more extensive blockchain solutions. These results highlight blockchain's importance in making carbon finance projects more credible and trustworthy. Practically, the study highlights the importance of carbon finance project scope, nature, and blockchain technology in promoting sustainability initiatives. There are insights into a nuanced approach to addressing complexities of carbon finance within organizations and their supply chains.

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Carbon insetting as a measure to raise supply chain energy efficiency potentials: Opportunities and challenges

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Contestations in the emerging soil-based carbon economy: towards a research agenda

Contestations in the emerging soil-based carbon economy: towards a research agenda

Advanced technological options for sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems upgrade towards climate neutrality

Blockchain Empowerment: Unveiling Managerial Choices in Carbon Finance Investment Across Supply Chains

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