Digital Carbon Accounting for Accelerating Decarbonization : Characteristics of IS-Enabled System Architectures

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Körner, Marc-Fabian ; Schober, Marcus ; Ströher, Tobias ; Strüker, Jens:
Digital Carbon Accounting for Accelerating Decarbonization : Characteristics of IS-Enabled System Architectures.
In: Proceedings of the 29th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). - Panama City, Panama , 2023

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To cope with climate change, an effective reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is necessary. An acceleration of decarbonization still lacks an efficient way to precisely account GHG emissions. Recent literature acknowledges the role of Information Systems (IS) research (particularly Green IS) to contribute to decarbonization by enabling digital carbon accounting. In this context, various scholars set out to design system architectures – often focusing on the energy sector due to its large potential for decarbonization. As research and practice lack a comprehensive overview (e.g., to develop standards), our work aims at reducing this identified gap by providing key characteristics of digital carbon accounting system architectures that we derive from an extensive, structured literature review and a consecutive deductive and descriptive approach. We argue that a stronger focus on both, user and identity management and interoperable registries may be beneficial to foster digital carbon accounting.