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.
PreprintAmfiteatru Economic2026#Climate FinanceDOI
Misunderstanding of Sustainable Finance: Young Financial Consumers and the Risk of Greenwashing Perception for Green Finance Acceptance
Ana Kundid Novokmet, Andrijana Rogosic, Petar Akrap
A survey of 270+ Croatian business students aged 18-30 examines drivers of green finance attitudes and adoption intentions. Pro-environmental behavior and sustainable finance literacy raise adoption likelihood, while greenwashing perception…
PreprintOxford Journal of Legal Studies2026#SBT/SBTiDOI
Theorising Legitimacy in ‘Science-Based’ Transnational Rule Making: The Science Based Targets initiative
Mark Ortega
This article theorises the legitimacy of transnational rule makers invoking 'science-based' methods, focusing on the Science Based Targets initiative. Drawing on transnational environmental regulation, administrative law, and science and te…
PreprintCrossref2026#SBT/SBTiDOI
From Committed to Validated: The Market’s Verdict on Science-Based Target
Qing Yang, Le Luo, Joey Wenling Yang
Event study on SBTi commitment and validated-target announcements among global listed firms. Investors react positively to initial commitment but negatively to subsequent validated-target disclosure, concentrated in firms whose targets look…
PreprintCrossref2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Beyond Aggregate Impacts: Decomposing the Economic and Competitiveness Effects of the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in Italy
Ainura Uzagalieva, Andrea Molocchi, Federica Odifreddi
Using the GEM-E3-ITA CGE model, this study decomposes CBAM's economic and competitiveness effects for Italy into three channels: ETS free-allocation phase-out, border adjustment, and revenue recycling. Aggregate effects are broadly neutral,…
PreprintCrossref2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Pollution Pricing in Equilibrium: Production, Reallocation, and Aggregate Impacts
R. Andrew Butters, Jackson Dorsey, Ivan Rudik
Using the first 17 years of the EU-ETS, the authors build an estimable equilibrium model of firm production and abatement. Short-run emissions cuts come almost entirely from reallocation across firms, while clean technology adoption respond…
Preprint🇪🇺 EuropeCrossref2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Market Creation without Market Authority: Ex-Ante Evidence from European Emissions Trading
Jan Abrell, Sebastian Rausch
Analyzes the EU's ETS2 extension of carbon pricing to buildings and road transport through three market functions: scarcity, exchange, and allocation authority. Completing exchange and allocation authority cuts present-value EU policy costs…
PreprintCrossref2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Carbon Pricing and Development:&nbsp;<span>Reconciling Decarbonization, Competitiveness, and Economic Growth</span>
Hunter Hughes
This report argues carbon pricing's effectiveness hinges not on choosing a carbon tax or ETS but on the surrounding policy architecture: revenue recycling, competitiveness protections, and international coordination. Evidence from 70+ initi…
PreprintCrossref2026#Carbon PricingDOI
From Average to Heterogeneous: Causal Machine Learning for Firm-level Effects and Compensation Design in the EU Emissions Trading System
Djamel Lekbir (Jamal Lekbir)
This paper proposes an Estimation-to-Compensation framework combining double/debiased ML, spatially aware causal forests, and budget-constrained policy learning to estimate installation-level heterogeneous treatment effects of the EU ETS an…
Preprint2026#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Firm-Specific Determinants of Sustainability Disclosure: Evidence from Pakistan Stock Exchange Listed Companies
Research on Economic & Social Development Options (RESDO)
Using 380 Pakistan Stock Exchange-listed firms for FY2024, the study builds a Sustainability Disclosure Score Index (SDSI) aligned with SECP ESG guidelines, GRI, ISSB, and TCFD across environmental, social, governance, and economic dimensio…
PreprintCrossref2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Eco-Conscious Master Production Scheduling Under Dual Uncertainty: A Hybrid Approach Using Machine Learning and Stochastic Optimization
Wiam ALAMI CHENTOUFI, Amine ZITOUNI, Abdellah El BARKANY
This study proposes a predict-and-optimize framework combining LSTM energy-price forecasting with LightGBM quantile demand forecasting, feeding a two-stage stochastic MILP via Kantorovich scenario reduction. Validated on a multi-product pla…
PreprintCrossref2026#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
<div> From Voluntary Commitments to Mandatory Standards: An Analysis of India's BRSR and the EU's CSRD in the Age of ISSB </div> <br>
Punit Bhura
This paper traces ESG disclosure's shift from voluntary GRI reporting to the mandatory ISSB (IFRS S1/S2) architecture, comparing India's BRSR and the EU's CSRD. It maps BRSR's evolution from BRR (2012) to BRSR (2021) and BRSR Core (2023) wi…
Preprint2026#Scope 3DOI
Balancing lean and agile inventory strategies in next-generation sustainable supply chains
Geoffrey Kapasa, Mweshi, Daniel, Kabamba
This paper examines integrating Lean and Agile ('Leagile') inventory paradigms within sustainable supply chains. Using mixed-methods dynamic modeling, it evaluates trade-offs among inventory holding costs, stockout risk, and life-cycle envi…
PreprintCrossref2026#Scope 3DOI
Private Sector Leadership and Corporate Climate Commitments in Logistics
David Chikwere, Justine Mbudaya, Munyaradzi Chibaro +1
This chapter examines corporate climate commitments, ESG disclosure frameworks, and supply-chain decarbonization in logistics. It traces the shift from CSR to science-based and net-zero targets, critiques the difficulty of tackling Scope 3 …
PreprintCrossref2026#Scope 3DOI
Banking on Supply Chain Decarbonisation: A Case Study on Scope 3 Emissions Management in Purchased Goods and Services at BNY
Cowell, Jan
Financial institutions lack physical supply chains, leaving Scope 3 Category 1 (purchased goods and services) among the least consistently reported categories despite dominating sector emissions. Through a BNY case study, the paper benchmar…
PreprintCrossref2026#Climate FinanceDOI
Carbon Footprint of Indian Bank Loans
Madhuresh Kumar, Supriyo Mondal, Apeksha Sharma
This paper estimates the carbon intensity of Indian bank loans using an EEIO framework with scope-disaggregated, bottom-up sector intensities. Under Scope 1, power-sector exposure makes public-sector banks the highest-intensity lenders; und…
PreprintCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management2026#Scope 3DOI
When Aviation <scp>CSR</scp> Efforts Are Not Enough: How Do We Inspire Airline Passengers to Offset Their Travel Footprints?
Eric Tchouamou Njoya, Michael Adu Kwarteng, Alex Ntsiful +2
This study builds an integrated model of norm activation and protection motivation theories to explain airline passengers' low uptake of voluntary carbon offset programs (VCOPs). Using 315 samples and PLS-SEM, it finds that awareness of CO2…
PreprintCrossref2026#AI × ESGDOI
Closing the Information Gap: AI Scope 3 Emissions Disclosure
Michael P. Vandenbergh, Ethan Ickovics Thorpe
This essay proposes immediately implementable reforms to private carbon disclosure systems to drive down emissions from AI. It finds that none of the 2024-2025 sustainability reports of S&P 500 companies disclose the carbon footprint of the…
Preprint🇺🇸 USACrossref2026#AI × ESGDOI
Closing the Information Gap: AI Scope 3 Emissions Disclosure
Michael P. Vandenbergh, Ethan Ickovics Thorpe, Emily Moberg
Proposes immediate private-disclosure reforms to curb AI-driven emissions, noting no S&P 500 2024–2025 sustainability report discloses AI carbon footprint. Recommends clarifying GHG Protocol Scope 3 coverage of AI emissions, adding CDP surv…
PreprintCrossref2026#Scope 1/2DOI
Emissions Impacts of Different Corporate Renewable Energy Standards in Asia
Nat Steinsultz, Gavin McCormick
Compares annual, hourly (24/7), and consequential emissions matching for corporate renewable procurement across 13 Asian countries (2025–2035) using Transition Zero's capacity expansion modeling. A consequential emissions-optimized portfoli…
Preprint2026#Scope 3DOI
Assessing the Carbon Footprint of Global Supply Chains in Manufacturing Industries
Toth, Alessandro, Janssens, Diego, Lehmann, Elena
Combining multi-regional input-output analysis with facility-level data, this study quantifies Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions across manufacturing supply-chain tiers. It finds substantial emissions leakage to lower-regulation jurisdictions and…