GX & Decarbonization Research

JOEL ANDERSON FLORIAN AREVALO, JASON ANDERSON GALVEZ LUNA

Noting that under 20% of studies operate at microscale and none integrate all functional layers, this work proposes a five-layer digital-twin framework: data acquisition, assimilation, microclimate simulation, nature-based-solution optimisa…

Jiaming Tan, Heshan Cai, Zekai Liu +7

This review organizes AI applications in environmental fields via a three-level framework of monitoring, control, and management. It surveys machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, digital twins, and IoT for multi-media env…

Walter Leal Filho, Franziska Wolf

This overview examines links between climate change, health, and behavioural change, arguing that individual and collective pro-environmental actions can reduce health harms. It frames these changes as contributing to SDG 13 (Climate Action…

Gayan Ekanayake, G.R.Bhagya Wijewardhana Wijewardhana

A study from the National Hospital of Sri Lanka on reducing the carbon footprint of carpal tunnel surgery. It highlights emissions embedded in surgical care and likely examines how technique, materials, and anesthesia choices affect environ…

Wanli Xing, Xiaoguang Ouyang, Fen Guo +1

A meta-analysis quantifying decadal blue carbon losses from tidal wetland reclamation and gains from restoration in China. Carbon stock depletion was the largest loss pathway (49.18% mangroves, 37.33% tidal marsh), while biomass recovery dr…

V. S. Stolbovoy, Александр Михайлович Гребенников

Using a Russian humus-balance model, the study assesses rapeseed as a crop for regenerative agriculture and a low-carbon economy. Winter rapeseed fixes soil humus (+0.48 t CO2-eq/ha) while spring rapeseed loses humus (-0.30 t CO2-eq/ha). Wi…

Justin E. Silpe, Karla Damian-Medina, Sarah M. Reyes +1

This review compares environmental burdens of breastfeeding versus commercial milk formula, estimating 5.9-7.5 billion kg CO2e added annually by formula use in infants under 6 months. It identifies a reinforcing feedback loop where climate …

Emmanuel Ogbonnia Oko, Chidinma Sarah Njoku

A narrative review synthesizing post-2015 evidence on GHG emissions and climate impacts for maize, wheat, rice and soybean. N₂O dominates upland systems via nitrogen fertilization, while CH₄ is key in flooded rice; results are highly sensit…

Binqi Yan

This study builds a global unit-level inventory of rare earth element (REE) emissions from cement production, integrating facility-level clinker data, technology, socioeconomic indicators, and element-specific emission factors. The sector e…

Diego Armando Damián-Carrión, Magdy Echeverría-Guadalupe, Carla Fernanda Silva-Padilla +4

Comparing 144 soil samples across natural (paramo, native forest) and converted land uses (cropland, pasture, exotic plantations) in the Ecuadorian Andes, natural ecosystems held significantly higher soil organic carbon. Land-use change was…

Ogunade Josiah Ayodele

This qualitative study examines AI's role in Africa's climate adaptation and mitigation, synthesizing literature, institutional frameworks, and case studies. It highlights machine learning and remote sensing for environmental monitoring, la…

Frank Agyemang Karikari

Using a spatial Durbin model across 43 African nations (2000–2022), this paper shows climate vulnerability depresses sustainable development directly (−0.352) and, more strongly, through spillovers from neighboring countries (indirect −1.24…

Fakhrullah Fakhrullah, Mingxing Li, Sher Khan +1

This paper re-examines drivers of consumption-based CO2 emissions across the E7 emerging economies (2000–2021) using MMQR, wavelet quantile correlation, and cross-quantilogram methods. Income elasticity declines across the emission distribu…

Jiankang Ling, Xufeng Mao, Xiuhua Song +5

Four years (2021–2024) of eddy covariance data at Haihu Wetland Park, Xining, China, show the high-elevation urban wetland acted as a net CO2 sink on 88.24% of valid days, with mean cumulative NEE of −437.27 g C m−2 yr−1 (CV 16.9%). Sink pe…

Tengteng Wang, Li Song, Yue Xu +4

This study assesses macroalgal blue carbon in Zhejiang, China, analyzing 2001–2023 production trends and drivers, then projecting sequestration under three scenarios using four models. Average annual sequestration was ~4,176 tC (~15,327 tCO…

Ho Ngoc Son, Tuan Tuan Bui, Thi Thanh Hoa Dao +2

This mixed-methods study examines how smallholder farmers in Thai Nguyen and Son La provinces, Northern Vietnam, perceive climate change and what shapes their adoption of Nature-Based Solutions. Farmers recognize climate variability as a ma…

Mingchen Ma, Shuxiao Wang, Bin Zhao +12

Using high-resolution inventories and a chemical transport model, this study assesses how large-scale afforestation interacts with anthropogenic emission cuts to affect O3 and PM2.5 in China. Afforestation could raise BVOC emissions by 20–2…

Savitha Rabeque C

A meta-analysis of 64 studies shows rewetting drained peatlands cuts net GHG emissions substantially: temperate fens fall 63% (19.9 to 7.4 t CO2e/ha/yr), with a 69% CO2 drop partly offset by a 650% CH4 rise. Active management yields the lar…

Uğur Arcagök

Using ESS Round 11 data (44,338 respondents, 30 countries), this study applies Latent Class Analysis to climate change perceptions, personal responsibility, and environmental values. It identifies three latent profiles with graded differenc…

Savitha Rabeque C

A meta-analysis of 64 studies shows rewetting drained peatlands cuts net GHG emissions by 63% (19.9 to 7.4 t CO2e/ha/yr), with a 69% CO2 reduction partly offset by a 650% CH4 increase. Active management yields the largest net reductions, an…