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🌍 GlobalJournalEnvironmental Research Letters2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Uncovering the systems archetypes of sustainability transitions
Brunilde Verrier, Benjamin Kenneth Sovacool, William J. Grace +4
This conceptual paper applies Senge and Meadows' systems archetypes—such as policy resistance, growth and underinvestment, and tragedy of the commons—as diagnostic tools to anticipate bottlenecks in sustainability and energy transitions. It…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalSociety & Natural Resources2026#Energy TransitionDOI
How to Save the Energy Transition: What Coal Scholars Can See Coming, and What to Do About It
Joshua Lappen, Emily A. Grubert, J. Mijin Cha
Drawing on the decline of the US coal industry, this paper extracts lessons for the rapid, coordinated retirement of fossil fuel infrastructure. It argues market-mediated transition is inadequate given rising risk tolerance among successive…
Peer-reviewedJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
From Firewood To Photovoltaics: Household Energy Transition And Environmental Change In Pathanamthitta District, Kerala
P. Kalpanadevi, Asha R Nair
A historical-analytical study tracing household energy transitions in Pathanamthitta district, Kerala, across four phases from biomass (1950-80) to electrification, LPG, and rooftop solar (2015-25). It links the shift to rural electrificati…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnergy Reports2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Quantifying just energy transition in the Global South: A composite territorial energy justice index (TEJI) and fiscal-energy synchronisation modelling for six energy mega-projects in Colombia
María Cecilia Ruiz Cardona, Carlos Humberto González Escobar
The paper builds TEJI, a composite index of eleven sub-indicators across five energy-justice dimensions, calibrated on six Colombian mega-projects (wind, solar, green hydrogen, hydro, gas). Aggregate scores are low (9.2–35.8/100), with rest…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalTaj Al-Ma rifa journal2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The Political Economy of Green Energy in the Arab Gulf States amid Current Economic and Political Transformations: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as a Model
Abdel Nasser Ahmed Hussein Omar
This study analyzes Saudi Arabia's and the UAE's accelerated clean-energy shift through a 'strategic competition' lens, comparing Saudi Vision 2030 with UAE Energy Strategy 2050. It argues the transition is not merely economic diversificati…
Peer-reviewedCNJournalThe Pacific Review2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Clean and dirty: China’s two-way energy diplomacy
Chia-yi Lee
This article introduces 'two-way energy diplomacy' to explain how China simultaneously manages fossil-fuel vulnerabilities and expands its role in green energy markets. Comparing oil and gas with wind, solar, and lithium-ion battery supply …
🌍 GlobalJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
"Towards an equitable future of global photovoltaic waste recycling" - Logical Review & Gap Analysis
Beo labs
An independent, non-peer-reviewed commentary re-examining Wang et al. (Nature, 2026), which models global PV waste through 2060 and evaluates 1,708 recycling/trade/subsidy scenarios for economic-climate equity. It identifies five logical ga…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEnergy Research & Social Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The future of spatial energy planning: A shift toward social learning and participatory visioning
Božana Vrhovac, Marina Frolova, Adrienne Grêt‐Regamey +1
This study examines social learning in a participatory regional visioning process in Knonauer Amt, Switzerland, comparing pre/post survey perspectives of participants (N=46) with non-participating residents (N=703). Participants' views on s…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalRenewable and Sustainable Energy Transition2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Assessing implementation feasibility of energy transition pathways: The case of solar PV in Switzerland
Xin Wen, Nik Zielonka, Sanni Kunnas +1
This study empirically quantifies the implementation feasibility of modeled solar PV targets across 143 Swiss districts for 2035 and 2050, combining a spatially explicit cost-optimization electricity model with a hindcasting-based probabili…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalOpen Ceramics2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Incentivising the rapid decarbonisation of ceramic manufacturing in the United Kingdom through fuel switching strategies
Camilla F. Hurst, Julian M. Allwood
This study examines how incentive mechanisms can drive rapid decarbonisation of UK ceramic manufacturing through fuel switching. It focuses on policy design and practical barriers for hard-to-abate, high-temperature industrial processes. Me…
Peer-reviewedJournalInternational Journal of Production Research2026#Energy TransitionDOI
A comprehensive sustainability-based framework for locating net-zero manufacturing facilities
Cari M.
Proposes a comprehensive sustainability-based framework for siting net-zero manufacturing facilities. It appears to integrate sustainability criteria into facility location decisions aligned with net-zero goals. Specific methods and finding…
Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Decarbonizing port infrastructure: an integrated life cycle assessment–system dynamics framework for carbon neutrality pathways
Dai-Bing Hou, Dong-Sheng Su, Wei Shen +6
Proposes an integrated framework combining life cycle assessment and system dynamics to model decarbonization pathways for port infrastructure. Aims to capture temporal and structural dynamics of carbon-neutrality measures in ports. Empiric…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalJournal of Cleaner Production2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Spatio-temporal evolution and driving mechanism of the level of coordinated transitional development between fossil fuel energy and clean energy in Chinese Cities: Insights from geospatial explainable artificial intelligence
Yu Zhu, Lihong Zhao, Jin-liang Wang
Using a coupling coordination degree model, this study measures coordinated fossil-fuel/clean-energy transition across 291 Chinese cities (2011–2021). A GeoXAI framework combining XGBoost and GeoShapley reveals spatial heterogeneity, with C…
Peer-reviewedJournalWaste2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Landfill Gas Valorization for Electricity and Carbon Credits in a Mid-Sized Mexican Metropolitan Area
Roberto Flores, Nadia Lara, Belem Gabriela Hernández-Jaimes +3
This study models landfill-gas energy recovery and carbon-credit revenue for the Cuernavaca metropolitan area, Mexico. With 75% gas-collection efficiency, staged 12 MW gas-engine generation cuts GHG emissions by 71.8% and yields 1.12 millio…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalSustainability2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Waste-Derived and Supplementary Cementitious Materials as Low-Carbon Binders: Data-Driven Evaluation of Strength, Durability and Global Warming Potential
Marianna Saill-Dilnot, Ryan Bello, Scott Rayburg +1
This study compiles published data on compressive strength, durability, and GWP for eight supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) and integrates them into a combined performance index (CPI). GBFS above 49% replacement cut GWP by up to 6…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalSustainability2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Coordinating Aerial Transshipment with Ground Delivery for Low-Carbon Urban Logistics
Shukang Zheng, Changjiang Zheng, Genhua Ma +4
Proposes a two-echelon UAV–UGV collaborative delivery model with intermediate transshipment, jointly optimizing customer allocation, UAV missions, and UGV routing under a weighted single objective combining cost, delivery time, and carbon-e…
Peer-reviewedJournalAgricultural Systems2026#Energy TransitionDOI
When information is not enough: AI-enabled advisory and the fragile pathways of low-carbon transitions under system constraints
Dinh Duc Truong, Bui Thi Hoang Lan, Ngo Thanh Mai +1
This paper examines how AI-enabled advisory shapes low-carbon transition pathways when information alone proves insufficient. It argues that under systemic constraints, AI-driven decision support may leave transition pathways fragile rather…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalSustainability2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Social Sustainability and the Participatory and Deliberative Gap in Just Energy Transition Governance: A Comparative Expert Survey in Greece, Poland, and Bulgaria
Fenia Pliatsika, Asimenia Salepaki, Lefteris Topaloglou +2
A comparative survey of 165 experts and policymakers in three former coal regions (Western Macedonia, Silesia, Stara Zagora) assesses the participatory and deliberative gap in just transition governance. Public participation is rated crucia…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEnergy Research & Social Science2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Fueled by sunlight, clouded by concern: Risk perceptions and risk-risk tradeoffs regarding solar fuels from artificial photosynthesis in Germany
Maike Keil, Katrin Arning
First systematic mapping of lay risk perceptions of solar fuels from artificial photosynthesis in Germany, using mental model interviews (N=24) and a confirmatory survey (N=292). Production-phase risks spanned all typologies and mostly invo…
Peer-reviewedJournalFinancial Strategies of Innovative Economic Development2026#Energy TransitionDOI
ACTIVE CONSUMERS AS A FACTOR IN ENSURING THE BALANCE OF UKRAINE'S ENERGY SYSTEM
Р.М. Кучерявий, Ostap Boiko
This study analyzes the 'active consumer' concept in Ukraine, reviewing forecasts that community solar plus storage yields economic, environmental and system benefits. It finds wartime distributed generation favors individual energy autonom…