GX Research Hub · English
GX & Decarbonization Research
This page provides an English interface to the gxceed GX paper corpus. The corpus aggregates papers from 14 contributing scholarly metadata sources and uses AI-assisted classification to identify signals related to measurement, policy narratives, outcomes, implementation, industrial adoption, and verification.
The goal is not only to discover papers, but to observe how GX research is distributed across research substance, implementation narratives, external expectations, implementation substance, and judgment formation.
Summaries are AI-assisted. Always refer to the original paper for authoritative conclusions.
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalMeditari Accountancy Research2026#ESGDOI
The ESG−audit nexus: unpacking the mediating role of CSR strategy and contextual moderators
Mahdi Salehi, Amirhossein Arminkia, Saeid Homayoun +1
Using 168,198 firm-year observations, this study shows that higher ESG scores significantly increase the likelihood of conducting sustainability audits. CSR strategy mediates this link, translating ESG performance into formalized assurance,…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalLex Journal : Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan2026#Supply ChainDOI
Critical Mineral Scarcity and the Green Transition: Redefining Mining Concessions Through Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence
Jehezkiel A. L. Lantang, Asse, Yovan Iristian
This study examines the legal tension between surging demand for critical energy transition minerals and international human rights obligations, arguing that traditional investor-centric mining concessions reproduce colonial extraction patt…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalGames2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Carbon Border Adjustment and Strategic Environmental Quality: Quality Backfire and Market Contraction
Subhadip Ghosh, A. Sen, Arka Mukherjee
A two-stage game with vertically differentiated products and endogenous environmental quality analyzes unilateral carbon pricing and the EU CBAM. Taxing imports corrects the foreign exporter's missing tax incentive, but the same charge also…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalHumanities and Social Sciences Communications2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Energy security risk and the global energy transition under external uncertainty: evidence from 74 countries
Tian Liu, Jianguo Liu, Tao Ling +1
Using a 74-country panel (1980-2022) with two-way fixed effects, this study examines how energy security risk (ESR) affects energy transition (ET), moderated by economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and geopolitical risk (GPR). ESR promotes ET,…
🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEdward Elgar Publishing eBooks2026#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Article 5: Transparency of environmentally sustainable investments in pre-contractual disclosures and in periodic reports
Rüdiger Veil
This piece addresses Article 5 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), covering transparency requirements for environmentally sustainable investments in pre-contractual disclosures and periodic reports. It sets out how f…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalThe International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment2026#Carbon AccountingDOI
Carbon footprint and carbon-related costs of LFP and NMC811 traction battery packs in China – a pack-level life-cycle assessment under trade-weighted carbon price exposure
Yinda Zhang, Chuyao Fan, Jingjing Jiang +1
A pack-level life-cycle assessment estimating the carbon footprint and carbon-related costs of LFP versus NMC811 traction battery packs made in China. It incorporates trade-weighted carbon price exposure to compare how battery chemistry aff…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEconomics and Environment2026#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
ESG reporting under uncertainty – experts’ individual perspectives
Ewa Jastrzębska, Agata Lulewicz-Sas, Joanna Godlewska
This qualitative study uses semi-structured expert interviews and thematic analysis to examine ESG reporting challenges under EU regulatory uncertainty from simultaneous CSRD/ESRS implementation and Omnibus revisions. Experts value standard…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalThe Journal of Impact and ESG Investing2026#AI × ESGDOI
Are Climate Risk Regulations Evidence-Based? Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Bridge the Gap between Regulatory Practice and Academic Research
Adeboye Oyegunle, Olaf Weber
This study uses AI and NLP to examine how well 16 major global climate risk banking regulations align with 83 peer-reviewed articles (2017–2024). It finds only moderate alignment (74.2% cosine similarity), showing regulators partially incor…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEcological Economics2024#Carbon PricingDOI
A Global Survey of Scientific Consensus and Controversy on Instruments of Climate Policy
Drews S.
A global survey of climate policy researchers mapping expert consensus and disagreement on instruments such as carbon pricing, emissions trading, regulation, and subsidies. It identifies which policy tools command broad scientific agreement…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEnvironment Development and Sustainability2025#Carbon PricingDOI
Environmental policy stringency and carbon leakages: a case for carbon border adjustment mechanism in the European Union
Olasehinde-Williams G.
This study examines the link between environmental policy stringency and carbon leakage in the EU, building the case for a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). It empirically tests whether stricter domestic climate policy shifts emiss…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalReview of Environmental Economics and Policy2016#Carbon PricingDOI
The impact of the European Union emissions trading scheme on regulated firms: What is the evidence after ten years?
Martin R.
A review assessing a decade of evidence on how the EU Emissions Trading Scheme affected regulated firms. It synthesizes findings on carbon pricing's effects on abatement, competitiveness, and innovation. Offers key lessons for designing car…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalInternational Journal of Low Carbon Technologies2024#Carbon PricingDOI
The development and experience of international carbon tax policy practice: a mini review
Qiao K.
A mini review surveying the development and practical experience of carbon tax policies across countries. It synthesizes design choices and lessons from international carbon pricing implementation, offering comparative reference for jurisdi…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalBusiness Strategy and the Environment2024#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
A dynamic framework to align company climate reporting and action with global climate targets
Christy A.
Proposes a dynamic framework to align corporate climate reporting and action with global climate targets such as the Paris Agreement. It aims to close the gap between disclosure and real decarbonization by continuously assessing target alig…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalManagement Science2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Crossborder Carbon Taxes and Shareholder Wealth
Marta Alonso, Martin Jacob, Gaizka Ormazábal +1
Using stock price reactions to EU CBAM announcements, the authors find EU purchasers of CBAM-covered products earn significantly lower returns than non-European producers. Effects are strongest for EU buyers with non-EU supply chains and wh…
🇪🇺 EuropeJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Carbon Is Now a Procurement Data Field
KU Howard
This white paper argues carbon information is now a material procurement input for steel-intensive infrastructure, and that CBAM, CFP, EPD, worldsteel LCI, DPP and ResponsibleSteel are related but non-interchangeable evidence regimes. It pr…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalEnergy & Fuels2026#CCUSDOI
Role of Carbon Capture and Storage in Decarbonizing Asia-Pacific Data Centers
Hon Chung Lau, Steve Tsai
APAC data center power capacity will grow 4.4x from 16 GW in 2025 to 70 GW in 2030, raising DC-emitted CO2 from 46 to 177 Mtpa. India, Japan, Australia and others will rely heavily on coal, while Singapore, Korea and New Zealand rely on gas…
🌍 GlobalDatasetMendeley Data2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Do Industrial Combustion Emissions Respond Gradually to Carbon Pricing? Evidence from Emissions Trading Systems across G20 Economies
Kejia Yan
This repository provides the dataset and replication code for a study examining how emissions trading system (ETS) adoption relates to industrial combustion CO2 emissions across G20 economies from 1990–2023. It employs fixed-effects and EKC…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalSustainable Futures2026#Carbon PricingDOI
How emissions trading system inhibits carbon emission intensity: evidence from global carbon markets
Wenzhi Wang, Sijia Fan, Yong Hu
Using a multi-period difference-in-difference design across countries, this study finds that ETS adoption significantly reduces carbon emission intensity, operating through energy-mix optimization and green innovation. Financial development…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalDiscover Global Society2026#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Harmonization and fragmentation in competing ESG materiality regimes and their implications for sustainability reporting
Sunitha Prabhuram, Thamburaj Anthuvan
This PRISMA-based systematic review of 48 ESG materiality studies (2020-2025) examines whether global materiality practices are converging or fragmenting across competing financial and double materiality regimes. It finds partial interopera…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalClean Energy2026#HydrogenDOI
Climate benefits of Power-to-X pathways utilizing green hydrogen – A contradiction of regional and international emission savings
Jani Sillman, Patel Gulam Husain, Jouni Havukainen +5
Using Finland as a case study, this LCA quantifies emission savings across six green-hydrogen Power-to-X pathways (e-H2, e-methane, e-methanol, e-fuels, e-ammonia, green steel). Green steel yields the largest savings (~17.5 MtCO2-eq), follo…