GX & Decarbonization Research

Lyudmyla Tautiyeva

Lithuania's multi-apartment renovation program has achieved significant energy efficiency gains, but fails to reach households most affected by energy poverty, and exhibits a rural-urban divide. The paper calls for more inclusive policy des…

Stefan Vieweg, Christoph Klein

This review synthesizes 2022-2025 evidence on AI in green finance and ESG, proposing the RESP-ESG framework for responsible adoption. It maps eight archetypes, showing NLP and ML enhance ESG signal extraction and climate analytics, while hi…

Jose Tiago Sousa

This paper critically examines Green Bonds and Sustainability-Linked Bonds within Ecological Modernization Theory, identifying tensions such as greenwashing, economic-environmental decoupling, and equity issues. It argues that effectiveness…

Cristóbal Gallego‐Castillo, Fidel González-Rouco, Alvaro Cuerva‐Tejero +3

This paper provides supplementary materials and results for a regional assessment of wind power potential in low environmental sensitivity areas of Spain. It includes simulation data, tables, figures, and code, supporting renewable energy d…

Kamar Mansouri

This paper examines how monetary policy affects green vs brown finance. It finds that a 100bp rate hike reduces green investment three times more. Market-neutral balance sheet expansions create a structural 'brown bias' by lowering costs fo…

Sanjar Mirzaliev

This paper empirically shows that China's Green Finance Reform and Innovation Pilot Zones (GFRIPZ) stimulate corporate green investments, including clean energy, using a difference-in-differences approach. Mechanisms include restricting fin…

Deepa Iyer, B B Tiwari

This study empirically analyzes the impact of green financing instruments (green bonds, sustainability-linked loans, ESG investments) on sustainable development outcomes using a survey of 75 financial professionals and 10 interviews. Findin…

Dirk Roethig

With the global green bond market exceeding €600 billion in 2024, this analysis by Dirk Roethig (VERDANTIS Impact) examines how sustainability-linked bonds, social bonds, and blended finance are accelerating capital markets' transformation …

José Ignacio Olmeda Martos, Carlos García-Llorente

This paper proposes a digital energy justice framework to govern AI's growing electricity demand. It outlines three pillars: mandatory energy/carbon transparency per service, regulatory classification of AI uses by social value, and proport…

Lensing, Paul

This study analyzes the impact of the upcoming EU ETS-2 (covering buildings and road transport, effective 2027) on Austrian real estate valuations. It finds that current valuation methods do not adequately account for carbon costs and fail …

Shan He, Bin Xu

Using China's staggered ETS rollout and a multidimensional energy poverty index, this paper finds that carbon pricing increases energy poverty, with impacts front-loaded in the first two years. The effect is larger in temperate provinces wi…

Chuyuan Liu, Siyang Tian, Valeriya Vitkova +1

This paper examines how firms respond to the anticipation of future carbon pricing following China's announcement of a national emissions trading system. Using the announcement as an exogenous shock, it finds that while listed firms do not …

Ambika Zutshi, Diane Zandee, Andrew Creed

This paper positions AI as a critical enabler for the transition to a circular economy, using the 10R framework to explore AI applications across circularity levels. It highlights how AI can identify opportunities for material reduction, pr…

Gordillo Gutiérrez, Guadalupe Adriana

This paper compares IFRS S1/S2 with GRI and TCFD across three dimensions: materiality concept, primary audience, and integration with financial information. It finds that GRI uses dual materiality (both impact of environment on company and …

Nancy Viviana Hoffmann

This study evaluates the environmental performance and circular economy potential of a feed mill (1000 t/month) in Entre Ríos, Argentina. Using quantitative (material/energy flows, partial carbon footprint covering scopes 1, 2, and transpor…

Ganeshkumar Vijayakumar

This paper proposes a 'Bio-Digital' framework for achieving net zero in the food packaging value chain. It integrates carbon-negative materials in the Physical Layer, biosensors for waste reduction in the Intelligence Layer, and Digital Pro…

Hedelius, Jenelle, Lavey, Warren

The US healthcare sector accounts for 8-10% of total GHG emissions, with operating rooms (ORs) responsible for at least 30% of that. This paper presents OR3mit, a webtool that calculates OR Scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon footprints and allows use…

Victoria Omeire, Okechukwu Okorie, Paul Mativenga +2

This study conducts a systematic literature review on Scope 3 emissions modeling in high-value manufacturing, revealing fragmentation among existing approaches (game theory, MRIO, simulation). It proposes a hybrid modeling framework integra…

Nicolas Romero Diaz, Maximiliano Udenio, Wim Van Hyfte +1

This paper develops a network-based methodology to estimate firms' indirect Scope 3 emissions across supply chains, using monetary transaction data and Scope 1 & 2 emissions, and shows comparable results can be obtained using only transacti…

Débora Cristina Fanin

This paper analyzes GHG emissions reporting by IT services and software development firms in Brazil using CDP data and case studies. It highlights the complexity of Scope 3 emissions and finds that Brazilian companies lag behind global peer…