This Minimum Viable Product will demonstrate these key concepts from the Multi Channel Data Architecture and Carbon Accounting and Certification Working Group:
- Access data from several permissioned channels.
- Use standard model-factors to calculate emissions from the data.
- Record the emissions results on its own permissioned channel for the next entity to consume.
The MVP will allow self-contained carbon emissions calculators for different purposes, as well as simulate how carbon emissions data could be shared across a supply chain with multiple parties.
The MVP will be designed to run as a serverless micro service, so that it could be run on Amazon Lambda or Cloud Functions from Google or IBM.
Potential data sources include:
- Utility bills
- Shipping data
- Travel data
- Vehicle trip data
- Renewable Energy Certificates
- Carbon offsets
By combining these data sources together, we could build several carbon emissions calculators: