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-reviewedJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#PolicyDOI
Digital government and national carbon intensity
Melissa Nihal CAGLE
An empirical study examining the relationship between digital government maturity and national carbon intensity. It likely tests whether e-government development correlates with lower carbon intensity across countries. Details are unavailab…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalSustainable Development2026#PolicyDOI
Europe's Road to Sustainability: Assessing Progress Towards SDGs 7 and 13 Through Factor and Cluster Analysis and Its Implications for EU Climate Governance
Sofia Jesus, Catarina Paisana Pires Costa das Neves
This study evaluates European countries' performance on SDG 7 (clean energy) and SDG 13 (climate action) for 2020–2022 using factor and cluster analysis. It identifies two dimensions—green transition efforts and energy consumption/emissions…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnvironmental Research Letters2026#PolicyDOI
Enabling climate change action in cities: A systematic assessment of conditions
Sarah Lynn Burch, Anjal Prakash, Mark Goudsblom +2
A systematic review of 261 articles (from 120,000+) identifies institutional, economic, and social enabling conditions for urban climate action. Multi-level governance emerges as the foundational enabler, while financing and cost-effectiven…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalClimate2026#PolicyDOI
“Delivering on Expectations”: The Potential of the Climate Budget to Facilitate Transformative Change
Julie Høie Nygård, Elin Anita Nilsen, Mette Talseth Solnørdal
A qualitative document study of climate budgets from eight Norwegian municipalities, analyzed through the levers-of-control framework and dynamic tensions. It finds controls dominated by targets, indicators, and monitoring, while dialogue, …
Peer-reviewedJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#PolicyDOI
FROM CARTELS TO CLIMATE COLLABORATION: BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE COMPETITION FRAMEWORK FOR INDIA
Tanu Agrawal
As firms pursue net-zero goals, coordination on carbon accounting, sustainable sourcing, recycling and green standards becomes necessary, yet competition law has long treated rival cooperation with suspicion. This paper examines how India's…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalInternational Journal of Emerging Multidisciplinaries Social Science2026#PolicyDOI
National Climate Change Policies and the future of Arctic Competition
Mamoona Bashir, Sivasegaran Nadarajan, Abdul Basit Noor +1
This paper comparatively analyzes Norway's and Russia's National Climate Change Policies in the changing Arctic. Norway prioritizes environmental protection, international cooperation, and sustainable ocean use, while Russia treats melting …
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalSustainable Futures2026#PolicyDOI
Can new urbanization drive the green and low-carbon transformation of urban economies? Evidence from the Yangtze River economic belt in China
Houtian Tang, Peng Cheng, Ke Liu +3
Using panel data for 110 cities in China's Yangtze River Economic Belt (2010-2023), this study applies two-way fixed-effects, mediation, and spatial Durbin models to test whether new urbanization (NU) drives green and low-carbon transformat…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalChinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies2026#PolicyDOI
Features of the New Round of Nationally Determined Contributions and Their Implications for Global Climate Governance
Xing Fan, Qidi LIANG
Analyzes the 2025 NDC submission round: most Parties filed late, all applied the information guidance, most covered all IPCC sectors and GHGs, and over 95% responded to the first Global Stocktake. Argues continuous NDC communication is cent…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalStructural Change and Economic Dynamics2026#PolicyDOI
How Do Energy Transition Policies Affect Corporate Sustainability? Evidence from China
Zixuan Liu, Liming Ge, Xiang Chen +3
An empirical study examining how China's energy transition policies shape corporate sustainability behavior, co-authored by researchers at Chinese and Singaporean universities. It links policy intervention to firm-level environmental and su…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalJournal of Innovation & Knowledge2026#PolicyDOI
Double-edged sword of administrative mobilization: Evidence from China’s chain leader system and corporate green low-carbon innovation
Yangyang Yao, Cheng Zhang, Shengyi Ding +2
Using Chinese A-share listed firms and a difference-in-differences design, this study examines how China’s Chain Leader System (CLS) affects corporate green low-carbon innovation. CLS significantly increases green patent output, operating t…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalSustainability2026#PolicyDOI
Incentive and Restraint Mechanisms for Collaborative Innovation of Green Intelligent Building Technologies Toward Low-Carbon and Digital Transformation in the Construction 5.0
Shuo Gao, Xuan Cao, Xianghan Wang +1
This paper builds a three-player evolutionary game model (government, construction enterprises, academic/research institutions) to analyze collaborative innovation in green intelligent building technologies under dual-carbon and digital tra…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnvironmental Research Letters2026#PolicyDOI
Equitable cooperation deepens the solution space for high ambition pathways
Setu Pelz, Oliver Fricko, Keywan Riahi +9
A new framework embeds principle-based fair-share considerations directly into integrated assessment scenario generation. Renewables and electrification trajectories stay largely unchanged across fair-share variants, but restricting transfe…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEnergy Sustainability and Society2026#PolicyDOI
Mapping a monitoring landscape – review of monitoring systems related to the German bioeconomy
Christina Zinke, Nora Mittelstädt, Daniela Thrän +1
This study reviews established monitoring systems tied to Germany's bioeconomy, screening 100 initiatives and classifying 71 regularly reporting ones by sector, sustainability pillar, and EU Bioeconomy Strategy goals. Coverage is strong for…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEthics Policy & Environment2026#PolicyDOI
Who Should Pay? A Framework for a Fair Distribution of Climate Policy Burdens
U. Martin Persson, Bengt Brülde, Fredrik Hedenus +1
This paper proposes a normative framework for allocating national climate mitigation responsibility among societal actors. Forward-looking responsibility is built from backward-looking responsibility, benefit from harmful activities, and mi…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournaleceee Summer Study proceedings2026#PolicyDOI
Monitoring the impact of climate adaptation policy
Sally Semple
The UK introduced Building Regulations Part O (Overheating) to address rising summer overheating risk in housing. Using large-scale EPC data for apartments built 2021–2025, this study tracks adoption of passive and active cooling strategies…
🌍 GlobalDatasetFigshare2026#PolicyDOI
Does rural credit promote pasture recovery? Evidence from Brazil's Low-Carbon Agriculture Policy
Pedro Henrique Batista de Barros, Felipe César Marques, José Eustáquio Ribeiro Vieira Filho +1
Using municipality-level two-way fixed-effects panel data, the study evaluates Brazil's Low-Carbon Agriculture Policy (ABC) Subprogram for Recovery of Degraded Pastures (SRDP). SRDP credit significantly promotes pasture recovery, with posit…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalSustainability2026#PolicyDOI
From Trade Catch-Up to Low-Carbon Upgrading: Provincial Regime Dynamics and FTZ Effects in China
Xueping Hu, Xiaodong Liu
Using panel data for 31 Chinese provinces (2000–2022), this study builds trade and low-carbon indices, identifies four latent regimes with 94.3% annual persistence, and applies ML with SHAP plus double ML to estimate FTZ effects. Coordinati…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalInternational Journal for Research Trends in Social Science & Humanities.2026#PolicyDOI
Global Climate Governance and the Achievement of SDG 13: Challenges and Opportunities
Dr. R. Suji Karthika
Drawing on secondary data from international policy documents and institutional reports, this paper examines challenges and opportunities in global climate governance for achieving SDG 13. It identifies inadequate climate finance, capacity …
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEnvironmental Innovation and Societal Transitions2026#PolicyDOI
Empowerment in EU energy law: connecting legal and sustainability transition perspectives
Pepijn Quast, Wouter Boon, Sanne Akerboom
A legislative analysis of how EU energy law articulates consumer empowerment, using a sustainability transitions framework with four dimensions: identity vs. resource-mobilisation, autonomy vs. power-shift, general public vs. marginalised g…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalSci2026#PolicyDOI
From Grey to Green: A Three-Decade Longitudinal Study of Environmental Assessment as a Metric of National Energy Transitions
Teresa Rodríguez-Espinosa, Ana Pérez-Gimeno, María Belén Almendro Candel +2
A 35-year (1991–2025) longitudinal study of Spain's environmental assessment records as a proxy for national energy transition. Grey infrastructure (transport, civil engineering) dominated 1991–2010, while post-2018 saw an unprecedented sur…