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The Paris Agreement tracks national contributions towards the goal of limiting global warming to well below 2 °C. To achieve this goal, collective actions are needed among economically competing countries. In this research, we propose a distributed ledger technology (DLT) based system that allows sovereign states to stay in control of their data while enforcing CO2 emissions monitoring and reduction rules among all states. Taking the implementation of vehicular fuel consumption metering in the European Union as an example, we use coopetition theory to illustrate how diverging interests can potentially be aligned to achieve a common goal while protecting autonomy. We demonstrate a DLT prototype, created following a design science approach, for monitoring and reducing automotive CO2 emissions within Europe to illustrate how competing interests can be overcome by the use of innovative solutions on an international level.

Abstract The ethical and sustainable production and consumption of energy are becoming increasingly important with the ongoing transformation and decentralization of the energy system. For other kinds of goods and commodities ethical consumption have direct implications for, and the participation of, informed citizens. Due to its intangibility, energy lacks the same levels of reflection and intervention by citizens and those aspects are yet to be fully explored in practice. This paper contributes to the understanding of how energy justice might be approached. We reflect on an empirical experience of participatory energy budgeting, a process aimed at determining how to redistribute a share of energy linked to collective virtuous consumption behaviors. We analyze through a qualitative thematic analysis how participants make sense of the participatory energy budgeting process and the emerged dynamics within the local communities and how this process can strive to reconfigure the relationship among civil society, the energy sector and politics, in order to remediate injustices. We highlight how the construction-in-practice of energy justice in a local community might be closely linked to issues such as the form of energy governance that allows for the participation of citizens and the accountability of the process, policies and technological limitations.