GX & Decarbonization Research

Professor Manasseh E. Bassey, Aniedi Ene Inyang

This documentary study examines how international organizations, especially the UN, contribute to climate governance through climate finance mobilization, policy coordination, technical assistance, capacity building, and negotiation facilit…

Mark Amoah Nyasapoh, Moses Ayamga

Using the CLEWs framework with OSeMOSYS, the study models Ghana's low-emission pathways from 2022 to 2063, comparing a Baseline with a Low-Emission Realistic (LER) scenario combining net-zero CO2 mitigation, clean cooking by 2030, and refor…

Tamara Antonia Krawchenko, Sophie Kiernan

This article argues that territorially grounded approaches—rooted in regional political economies, institutions, and community impacts—offer a politically feasible path for oil and gas transitions in Canada's producing regions. It traces Ca…

Jade Kinobe Ssewagudde, Jonathan Serugunda, Alvin Michael Mulumba +5

Uganda's grid faces distribution losses, ageing assets and limited feeder visibility despite rising generation capacity. This study synthesizes academic, legal, regulatory and utility evidence to assess institutional and technical readiness…

Szilárd Szélpál, Janos VARGA

Using Hungary's Green Deal survey data, this study tests whether support for energy independence is driven by perceived economic and social uncertainty rather than institutional trust. Crisis perception shows a significant association with …

Avi Jakhmola

This thesis shows low-carbon technology growth unfolds in four phases—formative, accelerating, steady, slowdown—rather than a simple S-curve; for wind and solar, acceleration typically ends near 3% of national electricity generation. Learni…

Kei Gomi, Yuki Ochi, Keita Mochihara +2

This study develops a method to allocate national decarbonization targets across subnational regions and estimate resulting regional energy balances and GHG emissions. Applied to Japan's 2050 carbon neutrality goal, two scenarios are compar…

K. Sai Sowjanya, G. Sai Srinivas Murthy

A review of Indian government policies and schemes supporting ecopreneurs, covering NAPCC, Start-Up India, the National Electricity Policy, the Energy Conservation Act and EPR-based waste rules, alongside Make in India, FAME, the Green Skil…

Muhammad Awais

This PhD thesis presents the first systematic DFT study of transition metal carbonitrides (TMCNs) as catalysts for electrochemical CO2 and CO reduction to green fuels. Analyzing 33 surfaces across 11 TMCNs and over 2000 reaction pathways, i…

Fernando Flórez

Livestock sustains over a billion people but emits roughly a fifth of agricultural GHGs, mainly methane, with demand set to double by 2050. CGIAR evidence shows sustainable intensification can halve emission intensity while raising yields a…

Muhammad Anas

This integrative review argues that Saudi Arabia's power transition is framed too narrowly as capacity expansion, overlooking how energy efficiency within generation reshapes the financeable economics of the transition. Heat-rate gains, com…

Oluwafemi Agboola

African nations face large adaptation and mitigation needs under tight fiscal constraints, making climate finance central to policy implementation. This article analyzes how state capacity shapes the ability to mobilize, allocate, execute, …

Pengd-Wendé Richard Nikiema

The authors develop an annual Gap-to-Target indicator comparing observed GHG emissions with the pathway implied by each national commitment, applied to 36 countries in Kyoto CP1 and 164 countries across the first two Paris NDC cycles. Resul…

Charles J. Maxwell, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Matthew D. Hurteau +4

Two structurally distinct landscape models (LUCAS and LANDIS-II) were run under shared climate scenarios and current management to project California forest carbon. Both converged on net carbon loss over four decades (6%/145 Tg C and 4%/94 …

S M Emdad Ullah

This review examines how capital is allocated and risk managed across the new cycle of critical energy infrastructure investment, as LNG expansion, AI-driven electricity demand and grid modernization converge. It maps financing models—utili…

Fiona Lo, Yangyang Xu, Ilissa Ocko

Using CMIP6 projections and a US county-level temperature-mortality model, the study quantifies how methane and air-pollutant mitigation affect future temperature-attributable deaths. Aggressive methane mitigation lowers net mortality by 5.…

Chavon Rogers

Using a 47-country panel (2010–2021) plus case studies of DRC, Cameroon, and Bangladesh, the paper shows fossil-fuel-producing low- and lower-middle-income countries expand fossil fuel output to service external debt, forgoing climate-stabi…

Jörg Radtke

Using a representative NRW survey (N=6284), this study identifies drivers of onshore wind acceptance in Germany. Political orientation is by far the strongest correlate; education and age show weak gradients, and the direct urban-rural effe…

Jonathan Craig, Andrew Latham

An introductory overview arguing the energy transition proceeds at different speeds and forms across geographies, shaped by local economic and social pressures. It notes rising demand in emerging economies and continued need for fossil fuel…

Oluwafemi Agboola

Nigeria's Climate Change Act 2021 created the NCCC, a Climate Change Fund, carbon budgeting and a national action plan. Assessing 2021–2025 implementation across institutional, coordination, technical and financial capacity, the paper finds…