GX & Decarbonization Research

Stephanie S. Erickson, Katsumi Matsumoto

Phytoplankton play a key role in the ocean carbon cycle, affecting atmospheric CO2 levels. This study uses computer modeling to identify where carbon-rich phytoplankton communities live and how they might help mitigate global warming under …

Amy Bennett

This paper suggests that during El Niño events, tropical forests may shift from carbon sinks to carbon sources. It highlights the vulnerability of forest carbon dynamics under climate variability, emphasizing the need for refined global car…

K Wang, Pengfei Sun, Junzhuo Liu +4

Analysis of 1080 rice-paddy sites across China reveals a threshold (~20 g/kg) in soil organic carbon (SOC) that governs biofilm carbon sink responses to warming. Below the threshold, warming increases carbon fixation; above it, fixation dec…

Junjie Hong, Y Anita Li, Zhihao Yue +7

This paper describes the preparation of spherical porous carbon as a precursor for silicon/carbon anodes in lithium-ion batteries and evaluates its electrochemical performance. The porous structure is expected to enhance capacity and cyclin…

Christoph Böhringer, Andre Müller Jan Schneider, Carolyn Fischer +1

This paper provides a systematic sensitivity analysis of border carbon adjustments (BCA) using a large-scale computable general equilibrium model. It examines how BCA design, price responsiveness, and initial heterogeneities across countrie…

Khushi Jatolia

This paper proposes Smart Carbon Tracker, an AI-driven web application for tracking, analyzing, and predicting carbon emissions using machine learning. It combines a React frontend, Node.js backend, MongoDB, and a Python AI module to help u…

Heyuan Wang

This repository implements Carbon Mind, a global spatiotemporal AI system for reconstructing 120-year multiscale changes in the land carbon sink. It includes all analyses and visualizations from the associated manuscript.

Zhongguo Xu, Qiuyi Jiang, Sitian Yang +1

This study identifies institutional bottlenecks hindering blue carbon marketization in developing countries, constructing a five-dimensional framework integrating Complex Adaptive Systems, Coase's Property Rights Theory, and the IAD framewo…

Yanhua Zhang, Gongguo Wu, Chujun Zou +4

This study developed the first coupled LSTM framework to predict bidirectional relationships between blue carbon stocks and fishery abundance in tropical coastal wetlands. Using 96 monthly field observations from 15 sites in China (2018-202…

Aswin Rahadian, Lilik Budi Prasetyo, Yudi Setiawan +1

This study evaluates integrated mangrove conservation and restoration scenarios on Java's northern coast, Indonesia, using a Tier 3 carbon accounting framework with Landsat data and field measurements. Average emission reduction potential i…

Wang Jiaxi

This paper proposes 'Lagoon Wallet,' a public-learning prototype for blue carbon in the Venice Lagoon, translating ecological indicators like water transparency and seagrass coverage into a playable ledger. Through user testing (N=12), it d…

Fan Zhang, 胡静柔, Ana Carolina Ruíz-Fernández +8

This review assesses the risk of mercury release from blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) when disturbed. A meta-analysis shows that physical disturbance remobilizes ~54% of sediment-bound metals. Applying this to BCE mercury stocks yields an est…

Yifan Zhang, Kexin Kong, Hongyuan Jie +7

This study reports a 3D carbon aerogel with Fe-Ni dual-atom sites and Ru6 nanoclusters for efficient oxygen electrocatalysis. The Ru clusters modulate electronic structure, enhancing ORR/OER activity. When used in zinc-air batteries, it ach…

Qianyu Li, Dongchen Zhang, Alexis Helgeson +2

This study assimilates SoilGrids SOC data into a process-based model at 39 US NEON sites, showing that direct SOC data assimilation significantly improves accuracy and precision of SOC and ecosystem respiration estimates. Indirect constrain…

Yaxian Wang, Shanlu Chen, Nan Jiang

This paper analyzes the impact of green credit policy on carbon intensity in China using a novel GDI-ARDL model. Findings suggest green credit significantly reduces carbon intensity, providing empirical evidence for transition finance effec…

Clothilde Tronquet, Simon Martel, Valentin Bellassen

After seven years of France's Low Carbon Label (LBC), agricultural projects remain underfunded. Agri-food companies fear 'double claiming' if suppliers sell carbon credits to third parties while they report those reductions in their scope 3…

2Sher Muhammad Ghoto 1Sami Ul Haq*

This paper provides an overview of strategies for mitigating environmental impacts, covering regulation, green supply chains, digital monitoring, and urban nature-based solutions. It serves as a broad framework for corporate and municipal e…

Pedro F. P. Rocha, Theocharis A. Plomaritis, Susana Costas

This systematic review of 119 papers examines how well coastal nature-based solutions (NbS) align with definitions from the European Commission (EC) and IUCN. Results show 66% compliance with EC and 63% with IUCN definitions, but fundamenta…

Xin Zou, Annah Lake Zhu, Qinhong Wu

This paper examines China's experiments with carbon markets and nature-based solutions within the framework of building a global Ecological Civilization. It analyzes policy mobilities and how these environmental policies are adapted and tra…

Paskasius Andrew Nandya Pradanantyo Soeradji, Ova Candra Dewi, Kartika Rahmasari

This study evaluates the effectiveness of swales as a nature-based solution for urban stormwater runoff management in Jakarta, Indonesia. Findings show that swales can reduce runoff and pollutants by 58-82% when properly designed with conte…