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-reviewedCNJournalEnergy and Climate Management2025#Carbon PricingDOI
A review of the operational results of the K-ETS (2015–2024)
Park J.A.
This review examines the operational results of Korea's Emissions Trading Scheme (K-ETS) from 2015 to 2024. It synthesizes the design, price dynamics, and abatement outcomes of one of the world's major operating cap-and-trade systems. It of…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research2024#Carbon PricingDOI
Carbon reduction and cost control of container shipping in response to the European Union Emission Trading System
Sun L.
This study examines how the EU Emissions Trading System affects container shipping, addressing both carbon reduction measures and cost control. It explores the trade-off between decarbonization compliance and operating costs in maritime tra…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalBusiness Strategy and the Environment2026#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Environmental Disclosure Under Mandatory Regulation in EU Listed Companies: An Institutional Analysis
Pinto-Braga R.
This paper examines how EU listed companies respond to mandatory environmental disclosure regulation through an institutional lens. It analyzes how regulatory, normative, and mimetic pressures shape disclosure quality and scope, offering ev…
🌍 GlobalReportGlobal Warming of 1 5°c Ipcc Special Report on Impacts of Global Warming of 1 5°c Above Pre Industrial Levels in Context of Strengthening Response to Climate Change Sustainable Development and Effo...2022#Climate ScienceDOI
Global warming of 1.5°C: An IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
Masson-Delmotte V.
The IPCC's 2018 Special Report assessing impacts of 1.5°C versus 2°C warming. It concludes that limiting warming to 1.5°C requires cutting CO2 emissions ~45% by 2030 and reaching net zero around 2050, providing the scientific basis for the …
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalNature Energy2017#Carbon PricingDOI
Global progress and backsliding on gasoline taxes and subsidies
Ross M.L.
A cross-country analysis of gasoline taxes and subsidies, tracking where carbon-pricing policy has advanced or reversed. It shows how fuel-price policy oscillates between climate goals and political economy pressures, offering lessons for n…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalJoule2021#PolicyDOI
Upstream decarbonization through a carbon takeback obligation: An affordable backstop climate policy
Jenkins S.
This paper proposes a Carbon Takeback Obligation (CTO), requiring fossil fuel producers and importers to sequester a rising share of the carbon they sell, as an affordable backstop climate policy. By mandating decarbonization upstream, it t…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalMeditari Accountancy Research2026#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Evolution of external auditors’ role following the introduction of international sustainability standards: evidence from interviews
Salma Charifa Kartout, Hanen Khemakhem
A qualitative study of 25 semi-structured interviews with Canadian professionals examining how external auditors' roles evolve with IFRS S1 and S2. The new standards expand auditors' accountability in ESG assurance and certification, likely…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalMeditari Accountancy Research2026#ESGDOI
The ESG−audit nexus: unpacking the mediating role of CSR strategy and contextual moderators
Mahdi Salehi, Amirhossein Arminkia, Saeid Homayoun +1
Using 168,198 firm-year observations, this study shows that higher ESG scores significantly increase the likelihood of conducting sustainability audits. CSR strategy mediates this link, translating ESG performance into formalized assurance,…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalLex Journal : Kajian Hukum dan Keadilan2026#Supply ChainDOI
Critical Mineral Scarcity and the Green Transition: Redefining Mining Concessions Through Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence
Jehezkiel A. L. Lantang, Asse, Yovan Iristian
This study examines the legal tension between surging demand for critical energy transition minerals and international human rights obligations, arguing that traditional investor-centric mining concessions reproduce colonial extraction patt…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalGames2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Carbon Border Adjustment and Strategic Environmental Quality: Quality Backfire and Market Contraction
Subhadip Ghosh, A. Sen, Arka Mukherjee
A two-stage game with vertically differentiated products and endogenous environmental quality analyzes unilateral carbon pricing and the EU CBAM. Taxing imports corrects the foreign exporter's missing tax incentive, but the same charge also…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalHumanities and Social Sciences Communications2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Energy security risk and the global energy transition under external uncertainty: evidence from 74 countries
Tian Liu, Jianguo Liu, Tao Ling +1
Using a 74-country panel (1980-2022) with two-way fixed effects, this study examines how energy security risk (ESR) affects energy transition (ET), moderated by economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and geopolitical risk (GPR). ESR promotes ET,…
🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEdward Elgar Publishing eBooks2026#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Article 5: Transparency of environmentally sustainable investments in pre-contractual disclosures and in periodic reports
Rüdiger Veil
This piece addresses Article 5 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), covering transparency requirements for environmentally sustainable investments in pre-contractual disclosures and periodic reports. It sets out how f…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalThe International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment2026#Carbon AccountingDOI
Carbon footprint and carbon-related costs of LFP and NMC811 traction battery packs in China – a pack-level life-cycle assessment under trade-weighted carbon price exposure
Yinda Zhang, Chuyao Fan, Jingjing Jiang +1
A pack-level life-cycle assessment estimating the carbon footprint and carbon-related costs of LFP versus NMC811 traction battery packs made in China. It incorporates trade-weighted carbon price exposure to compare how battery chemistry aff…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEconomics and Environment2026#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
ESG reporting under uncertainty – experts’ individual perspectives
Ewa Jastrzębska, Agata Lulewicz-Sas, Joanna Godlewska
This qualitative study uses semi-structured expert interviews and thematic analysis to examine ESG reporting challenges under EU regulatory uncertainty from simultaneous CSRD/ESRS implementation and Omnibus revisions. Experts value standard…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalThe Journal of Impact and ESG Investing2026#AI × ESGDOI
Are Climate Risk Regulations Evidence-Based? Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Bridge the Gap between Regulatory Practice and Academic Research
Adeboye Oyegunle, Olaf Weber
This study uses AI and NLP to examine how well 16 major global climate risk banking regulations align with 83 peer-reviewed articles (2017–2024). It finds only moderate alignment (74.2% cosine similarity), showing regulators partially incor…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEcological Economics2024#Carbon PricingDOI
A Global Survey of Scientific Consensus and Controversy on Instruments of Climate Policy
Drews S.
A global survey of climate policy researchers mapping expert consensus and disagreement on instruments such as carbon pricing, emissions trading, regulation, and subsidies. It identifies which policy tools command broad scientific agreement…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEnvironment Development and Sustainability2025#Carbon PricingDOI
Environmental policy stringency and carbon leakages: a case for carbon border adjustment mechanism in the European Union
Olasehinde-Williams G.
This study examines the link between environmental policy stringency and carbon leakage in the EU, building the case for a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). It empirically tests whether stricter domestic climate policy shifts emiss…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalReview of Environmental Economics and Policy2016#Carbon PricingDOI
The impact of the European Union emissions trading scheme on regulated firms: What is the evidence after ten years?
Martin R.
A review assessing a decade of evidence on how the EU Emissions Trading Scheme affected regulated firms. It synthesizes findings on carbon pricing's effects on abatement, competitiveness, and innovation. Offers key lessons for designing car…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalInternational Journal of Low Carbon Technologies2024#Carbon PricingDOI
The development and experience of international carbon tax policy practice: a mini review
Qiao K.
A mini review surveying the development and practical experience of carbon tax policies across countries. It synthesizes design choices and lessons from international carbon pricing implementation, offering comparative reference for jurisdi…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalBusiness Strategy and the Environment2024#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
A dynamic framework to align company climate reporting and action with global climate targets
Christy A.
Proposes a dynamic framework to align corporate climate reporting and action with global climate targets such as the Paris Agreement. It aims to close the gap between disclosure and real decarbonization by continuously assessing target alig…