Abstract
For businesses attempting to achieve a sustainable balance between productivity and environmental sustainability, green supply chain management (GSCM) is a crucial component. Ensuring supply chains remain transparent, trackable and trustworthy, poses a challenge when you consider the globalized and complex nature of supply chain systems. Blockchain technology (a decentralized, immutable method of storing and managing data) is emerging as a potential solution to assist in some of these issues.
As a result, the majority of traditional proof of work blockchains exhibit significant levels of energy usage, thus making them ill-suited for use in sustainable environments. To address this issue, the current research presents a novel energy efficient blockchain framework that can aid with enhancing integrity along the green supply chain. To achieve this, the new framework uses a permissioned blockchain architecture incorporating multiple consensus algorithms (e.g., proof of stake, delegated pr