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🇨🇳 ChinaJournalHumanities and Social Sciences Communications2026#Energy TransitionDOI
How does energy transition in China amidst climate risk shocks influence residents’ welfare?
Shunsuke Managi, Qiang Ji, Dayong Zhang +1
Matching an urban energy transition index with China Family Panel Studies data, this paper finds that energy transition raises residents' happiness. The effect works not through changed energy habits but through lower perceived wealth gaps …
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalWater2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Future Municipal Wastewater Reclamation: A Fit-for-Purpose Roadmap Toward Water Sustainability and Low-Carbon Resource Recovery
Siyu Wang, Peipei Zhang, Yicheng Yang +7
A review of municipal wastewater reclamation assessing water quality, energy, resource recovery and GHG mitigation. It evaluates emerging configurations—membrane bioreactors with RO, algal–bacterial membranes, nutrient-retaining and non-RO …
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalInternational Journal of Sustainable Transportation2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Electric cable cars as low‐carbon rural freight solutions: A sustainability evaluation framework and empirical evidence
Becky P.Y. Loo, Yiqing Liang
This study evaluates an electric cable car freight system (iLogistics) in Anyuan County, China, using transaction data from Dec 2020 to Jul 2023. The existing system reduced CO2, NOx, and PM2.5 emissions by ~8%, transport time by 18.09%, an…
Peer-reviewedJournalArabian Journal for Science and Engineering2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Toward Low-Carbon and Sustainable Concrete: A Critical Review of Traditional and Emerging Supplementary Cementitious Materials
Zehra Funda Akbulut, Soner Güler, Yassir M. Abbas +3
A critical review of traditional and emerging supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) for decarbonizing concrete. It surveys how SCMs can cut cement-related CO2 and the barriers to their wider adoption.
Peer-reviewedJournalMinerals Engineering2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Nickel laterite processing: a critical review of current advances and pathways to low-carbon production
Mehmet Hakan Morcalı
A critical review of current advances in nickel laterite processing. It examines the energy- and carbon-intensive nature of laterite refining amid rising EV battery demand, and outlines technological pathways toward low-carbon production an…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalAgriculture2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Can Urban–Rural Industrial Synergy Accelerate Low-Carbon Transition? The Mediating Role of Industrial Structure Upgrading and Green Technology Diffusion
Kongqing Li, Jiacong Li
Using panel data from 282 Chinese cities (2008–2022), this study tests whether urban–rural industrial synergy raises carbon emission efficiency. Fixed-effects estimates show a positive association, with industrial structure upgrading and pa…
CNDatasetFigshare2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Artificial Intelligence and Multi?Dimensional Green Factors in Synergy for Regional Energy Low?Carbon Transition: A Configurational Analysis Using Dynamic fsQCA
Canyang Huo, Ling Li, Wenhao Zhao
Using panel data from 30 Chinese provinces (2015–2024), this study applies dynamic fsQCA to examine how AI and multi-dimensional green factors jointly drive regional energy low-carbon transition (RECT). Grounded in dual-axis transition theo…
🇪🇺 EuropeJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Code and results for: Financing the storage transition: Reserve-market saturation, policy risk and the stranding of battery investments in Germany and Sweden
K. John
A co-optimization model of day-ahead arbitrage and reserve capacity (FCR, aFRR) for battery storage in Germany and Sweden, using official 2020–2025 market data. It evaluates project finance, stress scenarios and Monte Carlo simulation to as…
Peer-reviewedJournalMicrobial Cell Factories2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Microalgal cell factories for bioenergy and climate action: a circular bioeconomy roadmap
Rehab H. Mahmoud, Hassan M. M. Mustafa, Ilunga Alain Kamika +2
This review evaluates microalgae as a multifunctional microbial cell factory for renewable energy and climate mitigation, leveraging high lipid content and rapid growth. It assesses conversion pathways for biodiesel, bioethanol, biohydrogen…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalInternational Journal of Energy Studies2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The impact of hydropower on energy supply security in Türkiye: Evidence from an ARDL analysis
Ömer Faruk Altunç, Sıddıka Öztekin
Using Turkish data from 1990–2023, this ARDL study examines how hydropower generation affects energy supply security. It finds hydropower reduces energy imports in the long run, enhancing security, while economic growth raises imports in th…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalInternational Journal of Energy Studies2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Renewable Energy, Environmental Sustainability and Economic Growth: A Machine Learning Analysis of MINT Countries
Gazi Polat
Using 2000–2023 World Bank data for MINT countries, this study applies Kernel Regularized Least Squares (a machine-learning method) to examine nonlinear links among renewable energy, carbon emissions, health expenditure, tourism, and growth…
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…