GX & Decarbonization Research

Kingsuk Majumdar, Sohini Ghosh

This study applies Random Forest, XGBoost, and SVM to a 65-country, five-sector EU ETS trade panel (2000–2018) to predict carbon leakage. XGBoost achieves R²=0.965 for embodied CO2 regression and ROC-AUC=0.765 for leakage classification, su…

Bing-Lin Yang, Ming Yang, Pei-Heng Qi +3

This paper builds a multi-agent Stackelberg game model for integrated energy systems, coupling a price-carbon dual-incentive demand response with a reward-penalty stepped carbon trading mechanism. An adaptive differential evolution algorith…

Jin-Xin Zhu, Guo-Feng Wang, Xin-Yan Wen +1

This paper proposes a carbon-accountable P2P trading framework for multi-microgrids that traces carbon responsibility through bilateral transactions rather than treating carbon as an external penalty. It combines a belief-aware Stackelberg …

D. Bałaga, Dariusz Czerniak, M. Siegmund +3

VAM utilisation feasibility depends not only on methane concentration but also on ventilation air quality, including dust. Using 155 dust measurements from 24 fan stations in Poland and Romania plus particle-size and composition analyses, m…

Ming-Ming Wang, Chun-Yao Song, Zhong-Lun Zhang +7

This study compares seven analytical methods for quantifying CO2 sequestration in steel slag, revealing up to a 36.3% spread (6.5–10.2 g CO2/100 g) across techniques. Discrepancies stem mainly from differing carbon pools, sample pre-treatme…

Neelam Gupta, Smita Goswami

This chapter reviews how AI—machine learning, NLP, computer vision, and blockchain—can address limitations in carbon accounting, emissions auditing, and corporate climate accountability. It argues AI enables >90% prediction accuracy, sub-ho…

Yi-Zhuo Li, Jia-Pan Li, An-Lin Shao

This study quantifies production concentration of ten key minerals across Belt and Road Initiative countries using 2023 USGS data, computing HHI, CR4, and CR8. Nickel, cobalt, and lithium show the strongest concentration, while iron ore, co…

Hai-Tao Zhao

Closed nuclear fuel cycles require reliable measurement data for plutonium accounting. Current nondestructive assay (NDA) methods show ~20% systematic bias for kilogram-scale MOX items, generating material-unaccounted-for (MUF) signals that…

Ryan Meintjes, Laurence L. Delina

Using 27 interviews and crisp-set QCA, this study explains why apparel and footwear suppliers in Bangladesh and China do not formally engage with the SBTi despite brand pressure. Drawing on Diffusion of Innovations, it shows that the same i…

Donghai Wang, Chunchang Zhang, Chengyue Zhang +2

This study models the economic impact of the IMO's draft Net-Zero Framework on shipping fuel transition, incorporating fuel, carbon, and newbuilding/retrofit costs. Across four 2025-2050 scenarios, positive returns occur only early under hi…

Huayi Chang, Marrit van den Berg, Junbiao Zhang +1

This study examines how population ageing shapes rural household cooking fuel transitions in China, using a bargaining framework that accounts for preference differences between elderly and non-elderly adults. Survey data from rural central…

Tinh Thi Nguyen, Tinh Thi Nguyen, Thanh Thi Nguyen +2

This article builds a Five-Pillar Framework (institutions, infrastructure, finance, society/environment, human resources) to compare renewable energy governance in Vietnam and China. China shows a more consolidated statutory framework, coor…

Fan Zhang, Yanlu Huang, Zifei Wang +1

This study treats China's southern power grid region (Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hainan) as an integrated electricity system, combining decomposition, decoupling assessment, and constrained scenario modelling using 2013–2021 data.…

Bo Jin, Chen Zhang, Ge Wang +2

This study provides causal evidence on how China's solar PV expansion affects vegetation, suggesting co-benefits of the energy transition for ecosystems and land cover. Methodological details and findings are unavailable as no abstract was …

Sabri Boubaker, Yi‐Shuai Ren, Riadh Manita +1

Using Chinese A-share firms (2006–2022), the study finds the New Energy Demonstration City pilot policy significantly increases firms' cross-regional investment beyond home provinces. Effects are stronger for non-state-owned, non-heavy-poll…

Xiaoyu Liang, Hao Xiong, Chenxi Zhang +1

This paper proposes an integrated pathway producing sustainable carbon-cycle fuels by coupling renewable-powered green hydrogen with CO2 from DAC or industrial CCUS, then converting them via photosynthesis-inspired catalysis into carbon-neu…

TAN Yiwei

Using Starbucks' coffee ground cup as a case, this study builds a closed-loop circular system along the 3Rs, covering waste collection, low-carbon manufacturing, green communication, and remanufacturing. It analyzes value for ESG performanc…

Afonso Henrique Torres Lucas, Julianne Oliveira, ROBERTO HIGINO PEREIRA DA SILVA

Open code and outputs for an experiment that treats sustainability report pages as images: ColQwen2.5 multi-vector embeddings in Qdrant retrieve pages, and a vision-language model extracts Scope 1, 2 (market- and location-based) and 3 emiss…

Roberto Fragomeli, Пина Пунтилло, Stefania Veltri

Analyzing 124 sustainability reports from 37 Italian universities (2017-2024), this study examines how GRI adoption relates to SDG disclosure over time. Despite widespread GRI reference, SDG disclosure remains limited with only marginal imp…

Jeremiah Osida Onunga, Jared Okello

This systematic desk review (PRISMA-guided) examines how AI can support measurement, verification, and reporting of sustainability indicators in Kenyan public universities as mandatory non-financial reporting (e.g., IPSASB SRS1) approaches …