GX & Decarbonization Research

Zulkipli Nor Akhlisah, Pin Jern Ker, Muhammad Faris Roslan +2

This review evaluates renewables-integrated microgrid configurations for low-carbon ammonia production across techno-economic, environmental and operational dimensions. Reported LCOA varies widely with scale and configuration; large systems…

Isabel Cristina Veloso de Oliveira Rodrigues, Leonardo Novaes Izidorio, Maria Clara da Silva Fernandes

This study maps Brazil's low-carbon hydrogen regulations from 1931 to mid-2025 using Python-based normative mapping plus qualitative content analysis. It finds a disconnect between comprehensive high-level laws and missing sub-legal rules: …

Chong Gao, Senquan Li, Jianwei Gao +3

This study proposes a solar-attribute-aware scheduling framework for CSP-TES integrated energy systems, embedding a solar-thermal attribute state in TES balance to track solar-derived heat amid hydrogen-recovered and CO2-capture heat. It qu…

Senquan Li, Jianwei Gao, Peifeng Yin +3

This study proposes a solar-attribute-aware scheduling framework for CSP-TES integrated energy systems where TES discharge mixes solar and non-solar heat from hydrogen conversion and CO2 capture. A solar-thermal attribute state tracks the s…

Monika Pepłowska, L. Gawlik, Wojciech Kowalik

Using Kraków Smog Alert as a case, this study analyzes how grassroots civic mobilization drove the shift from domestic solid-fuel combustion to low-emission heating in Poland. Combining the Multi-Level Perspective with social movement theor…

Ting Zeng, Ruilian Zhang, Qiyun Ke +1

Using regional panel data from China, this study analyzes how low-carbon policy affects environmental performance via econometric and configurational methods. Policy significantly improves emissions reduction, energy efficiency, and polluti…

Jiaojiao Gao, Renxiang Wang

This paper builds a dynamic financial conditions index integrating monthly GDP and multi-layer financial data to examine how climate policy uncertainty (CPU) affects financial stability across aggregate conditions, asymmetric responses, and…

Zhiqiang Lan, Xingjin Yu, Jingyi Zhang +1

Using monthly electricity-consumption data for 26 Chinese provinces (Jan 2023–Jul 2025) and a multi-regional input–output framework, this paper shows that carbon price shocks transmitted through production networks reduce electricity–growth…

Furong Bai, Hanmin Wang, Mengyuan Cheng +1

Using panel data on Chinese A-share listed energy firms (2014-2022), this study finds that low-carbon transition is significantly associated with higher corporate resilience. ESG performance and financing constraints are suggested as mediat…

A. Ređep, Tibor Bešenić, X. Wang +2

This review examines the energy demands of deploying carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) and the opportunities for integrating it with renewable energy. It highlights that CCUS is energy-intensive, so pairing it with renewables i…

Junzhuo Liu, Lina Gong, O. Oenema +1

Synthesizing 375 Chinese studies, this paper evaluates long-term impacts of direct straw return (DSR) on soil organic carbon, yield, and net carbon benefit (NCB). SOC gains and yield increases plateau, and national NCB eventually turns nega…

Anne Ernst, Natascha Hinterlang, Nikolai Stähler

Carbon pricing raises production costs and cuts output initially, while emission-reduction benefits arrive later, altering household saving and the natural interest rate r*. Using a dynamic three-region environmental life-cycle model, the a…

Rawan Amro

This meta-analysis synthesizes empirical accounting and finance studies on the financial consequences of ESG disclosure. It finds a significant negative association between ESG disclosure and cost of capital (equity and debt), driven by low…

Rinni Indriyani, Fitriya Sari, Muhamad Dzulfikri

This study examines how good corporate governance—board of directors, audit committee, and independent commissioners—affects sustainability report disclosure among Indonesian ESG Star listed companies using multiple linear regression. The b…

Hang Pham, Binh Bui, Carolyn Cordery

Using agency theory, this study analyzes 1,402 responses from the 2021 CDP climate survey to examine how firms pursuing Science-Based Targets engage suppliers for Scope 3 emissions data. Firms most often use information-symmetry strategies …

Luca Evangelisti, Edoardo De Cristo, Roberto De Lieto Vollaro

This editorial overview surveys research trends at the intersection of thermal comfort and energy efficiency in buildings, framing the low-carbon built environment as a multi-objective performance challenge. It maps emerging design and asse…

Vasiliki Tzitzili, Christos N. Dimitriadis, Michael C. Georgiadis

This review synthesizes recent mathematical modelling and optimization frameworks for evaluating strategic energy investments amid low-carbon transition. It examines stochastic, robust, bilevel and equilibrium approaches for representing un…

Parya Broomandi, Dorna Gholamzade Ledari, Ivan Radelyuk +4

This critical review synthesizes how climate variability and extreme events drive renewable-energy droughts across solar, wind, and hydropower systems. It compiles indicators (standardized renewable energy production index, capacity-factor …

Patrick Curran, Kendrick Hardaway, Tom McLeod Logan

A structured review of 39 global climate risk and vulnerability assessments using sea level rise as a case study. Only 54% correctly represented deep uncertainty, and 71% of decisions misapplied scenarios as single projections. It exposes a…

Sandra Venghaus, Ali Torkayesh, Katharina Böhm +2

Using mixed qualitative/semi-quantitative discourse analysis of German Bundestag plenary sessions (2017–2022), this study traces how Fridays For Future, the 2021 government change, COVID-19, and the Ukraine war reshaped prioritization among…