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-reviewedJournalJournal of Cleaner Production2021#PolicyDOI
Can environmental regulation stimulate the regional Porter effect? Double test from quasi-experiment and dynamic panel data models
Nie X.
An empirical study testing the Porter Hypothesis—whether environmental regulation boosts regional industrial competitiveness—using both a quasi-experiment (policy shock) and dynamic panel data models. It seeks to identify how stricter regul…
Peer-reviewedJournalClimate Policy2021#PolicyDOI
Designing an effective climate-policy mix: accounting for instrument synergy
van den Bergh J.
This paper examines how to design effective climate-policy mixes by explicitly accounting for synergy between instruments such as carbon pricing, regulation, and subsidies. It argues that evaluating instruments in isolation misses interacti…
Peer-reviewedJournalJournal of Business Ethics2026#PolicyDOI
Ethical Leadership in Climate Action: Navigating National Government Intervention, Financial Constraints, and Corporate Decarbonization
Ng L.
This paper examines how ethical leadership shapes corporate decarbonization amid national government intervention and financial constraints. It appears to conceptually explore how managers navigate policy pressure and funding limits when pu…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalEnergy Reports2024#PolicyDOI
Review of the US 2050 long term strategy to reach net zero carbon emissions
Fam A.
This paper reviews the US long-term strategy to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. It examines decarbonization pathways and policy instruments, highlighting challenges and implications for meeting the target. Without an abstract, spec…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalEconomic Inquiry2013#PolicyDOI
Carbon geography: The political economy of congressional support for legislation intended to mitigate greenhouse gas production
Cragg M.I.
This paper examines the political economy of US congressional support for greenhouse-gas mitigation legislation through a 'carbon geography' lens, linking district-level carbon-intensive industry location to legislators' voting behavior. It…
Peer-reviewed🇯🇵→🌍 Japan-to-Global🇯🇵 JapanJournalReview of Policy Research2023#PolicyDOI
Net-zero carbon declarations by Japanese local governments: What caused the domino-like diffusion?
Nakazawa T.
This study empirically examines why net-zero carbon declarations spread in a domino-like fashion across Japanese local governments. It likely analyzes how neighboring municipalities, peer effects, and policy/social factors drove diffusion. …
Peer-reviewedJournalEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research2023#PolicyDOI
Towards achieving net zero emission targets and sustainable development goals, can long-term material footprint strategies be a useful tool?
Sofuoğlu E.
This paper examines whether long-term material footprint strategies can serve as a useful tool for achieving net zero emission targets alongside the SDGs. It offers a resource-consumption lens on decarbonization, though the absence of an ab…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnvironmental Policy and Governance2025#PolicyDOI
Do Transnational Municipal Networks Accelerate the Net-Zero Transition? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the C40 Cities Initiative and the Challenge of Urban Climate Change Mitigation
Lot C.
A mixed-methods study examining whether the C40 Cities initiative and transnational municipal networks actually accelerate urban net-zero transitions. It assesses the role and limits of city networks in diffusing mitigation policy and clima…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2026#PolicyDOI
Ecological civilization demonstration zones and sustainable low-carbon agricultural transformation: Quasi-natural evidence from China
Xiaoyu Chen, Xuexue Wu, Haohan Wang
Using 2003–2024 panel data from 30 Chinese provinces, this study treats National Ecological Civilization Demonstration Zones (ECDZ) as a quasi-natural experiment and estimates effects on agricultural carbon emission intensity (ACEI) via dou…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalGlobal NEST Journal2026#PolicyDOI
Impact of the Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy on Residents' Health: The Dual Pathways of Pollutant Emissions and Green Behavior
Xihao Zeng, Ming Ji, Zhiming Mo +2
Using panel data from 285 Chinese cities (2003-2020), this study finds the Low-Carbon City Pilot policy significantly improves residents' health (coefficient 0.0375). Effects operate through dual pathways: reducing pollutant emissions and g…
Peer-reviewedJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#PolicyDOI
EXAMINING THE CLIMATE POLICY PRIORITY PARADOX: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF GOVERNMENTAL ATTENTIONAL ALLOCATION BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION
Charles Adesola Ajagbe, Gbenga Edward Oladokun, JUBRIL BABATUNDE JIMOH
This study examines how governments allocate policy attention between climate adaptation and mitigation, using a survey of 200 public-institution and policy stakeholders analyzed via multiple regression. Adaptation and mitigation attention …
🇨🇳 ChinaDatasetScience Data Bank2026#PolicyDOI
Research on the Micro-Tech Empowering Effects of Data Elements and Green Low-Carbon
wang rui yin
Using panel data of Chinese A-share listed firms (2011–2024, 17,177 obs), this study examines how the national green data center pilot policy affects firms' green technology integration, measured by patents at the intersection of digitaliza…
Peer-reviewed🇯🇵 JapanJournalInternational Journal of Manpower2026#PolicyDOI
Greening the labour market: how decarbonization reshapes wages for women and skilled workers in Taiwan
Yu-cheng Lai
Using 2015–2020 pooled cross-sectional data from Taiwan, this study estimates wage equations with industry and year fixed effects, correcting for endogeneity (DWH test) and selection bias (Heckman two-stage). It finds that R&D-led decarboni…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalEnergy Policy2026#PolicyDOI
A review of United States energy-only generator interconnection service policy and considerations for reform
Gorman W.
This review examines U.S. energy-only generator interconnection service policy and options for reform. As interconnection queues bottleneck renewable deployment, it assesses institutional design problems and proposed fixes. It addresses the…
Peer-reviewedJournalRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews2025#PolicyDOI
Urban decarbonization policies and strategies: A sectoral review
Soares F.
This paper reviews urban decarbonization policies and strategies across sectors. It surveys policy instruments and approaches in buildings, transport, energy and related domains, examining cities' role in meeting climate goals. Without an a…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalAdvances in Economics Management and Political Sciences2026#PolicyDOI
Carbon Footprint Deficits in Environmental Impact Assessment under the Ecological Environment Code: Gaps and Improvement Pathways
Chenyu Shi
Against China's dual-carbon goals and the Ecological Environment Code, this paper examines how the EIA system must shift from pollution control to low-carbon governance. It reviews the weak legal, technical, and institutional footing of car…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalSustainability2026#PolicyDOI
Can Smart City Pilot Policies Drive Urban Low-Carbon Transformation? Evidence from Chinese Prefecture-Level Cities
Denglei Chen, Shuitai Xu, Hong Pan +2
Using panel data from 280 Chinese prefecture-level cities (2003–2023), this study treats the smart city pilot policy as a quasi-natural experiment and applies staggered DID. Smart city construction significantly curbs urban carbon emissions…
Peer-reviewedJournalTransportation Research Part A Policy and Practice2026#PolicyDOI
Strategic regulation of human-machine traffic: a Stackelberg framework for low-carbon policy design
Yicheng Zhang, Zelin Wang, Qian Liu +2
This paper proposes a Stackelberg game-theoretic framework for designing low-carbon policy in traffic systems where human-driven and autonomous vehicles coexist. It models regulators as leaders and traffic agents as followers to analyze how…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalFrontiers in Marine Science2026#PolicyDOI
Silence in climate policy: fisheries, policy incentives, and the missing low-carbon transition in Brazil
José Amorim Reis‐Filho
Screening 110 Brazilian federal legal instruments, this study shows fisheries are largely absent from national climate governance: none address emission inventories, decarbonization targets, or carbon-footprint management. Fossil-fuel subsi…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalFigshare2026#PolicyDOI
Just transition policy implementation in Spanish coal mining communities: feedback effects on policy attitudes and voting intentions
Diane Bolet, Fergus Green, Mikel González-Eguino
Using a representative survey in a Spanish coal province just before the 2023 election, this study examines how the actual rollout of just transition policies shaped policy support and voting intentions for the PSOE. Support for mine closur…