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-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEJSD2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Reframing Just Green Transitions through Energy Geopolitics: Actors, Inequalities, and Territorial Vulnerabilities
Simona Epasto
This paper frames Just Green Transitions as a wicked, multiscalar problem at the intersection of energy geopolitics, territorial justice, and anticipatory governance. Using foresight methods (cross-impact analysis, horizon scanning, scenari…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalCurrent Journal of Applied Science and Technology2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis of Energy Transition Pathways in Senegal toward 2035 Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Papa Touty Traoré, A. Sow, G. Warren +11
This study applies AHP to compare four Senegal energy-transition pathways toward 2035 across six criteria. Cost and grid resilience were weighted highest (0.284 each), and a balanced gas-and-renewables mix scored best (0.296). No pathway do…
🌍 GlobalJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The Sustainable Convergence Pathway for Emerging Economies
Hunter Hughes
This monograph argues emerging economies can decouple growth from emissions, as clean power, digital public infrastructure, and regenerative agritech invert the development cost curve. It proposes a multi-pillar strategy—clean industrial po…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
ENGINEERING THE ENERGY TRANSITION Infrastructure, Innovation, and Africa's Sustainable Future
Emeka E. Oguzie
A distinguished lecture for the Nigerian Society of Engineers on Africa's energy transition. It examines the infrastructure and innovation needed to support a sustainable energy future in Africa, framed by an electrochemistry and materials …
🌍 GlobalJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Development Pathways for a Climate Constrained Global South
Hunter Hughes
This paper examines how Global South countries can pursue growth, equity, and deep decarbonization under tightening climate constraints. Synthesizing net-zero pathway analyses of large emerging economies, it identifies common patterns: mode…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalEnvironmental Research Letters2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Sector-detailed urban greenhouse gas emission futures derived from the ScenarioMIP-CMIP7 ensemble
Gunnar Luderer, Pascal Weigmann, Mark Roelfsema +31
This paper develops a spatially explicit framework to downscale global emissions pathways to urban areas by region and city type. Ambitious mitigation could deliver 21 GtCO2e of urban GHG reductions by 2050 versus current trends, driven by …
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalEnergies2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Nuclear Energy Development and Energy Security in Slovakia: Current Status and Conditional Prospects up to 2050
Jacek Dworzecki, Izabela Nowicka
This paper evaluates how nuclear development affects Slovakia's energy security to 2050 using a mixed-method design: electricity-balance reconstruction, comparison of three 2040 adequacy scenarios, and stress tests for a 1200 MW reactor and…
🌍 GlobalJournal2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Big Data for Sustainable Energy Solutions in Africa
Irine C Samoei, Fancy Kiptoo
A proposal-oriented study from Moi University (Kenya) on combining AI, blockchain, and big data to address Africa's sustainable energy challenges. Likely covers distributed energy, grid optimization, and data-driven energy governance. Witho…
🇪🇺 EuropeJournalResearch Explorer (The University of Manchester)2026#Energy Transition
Heathrow Airport Expansion Risks for the Climate Change Act:how growing airport capacity before climate technologies succeed will break the UK's carbon budget
Lois; id_orcid 0000-0001-7160-757X Pennington, Christopher; id_orcid 0000-0002-5428-0015 Jones, Alice; id_orcid 0000-0003-4551-1608 Larkin +1
This report assesses whether a third runway at Heathrow is compatible with the UK's domestic and international climate obligations. Analyzing demand growth, SAF mitigation potential, and GGR for residual emissions under the Seventh Carbon B…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalTransport Economics and Management2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The economics and governance of sustainable aviation fuel: An integrated review and a stage-based policy framework
Changmin Jiang
This review synthesizes 81 sources to frame SAF deployment around four decision loci: producible volumes with verified climate benefits, financing and demand certainty, contract and market-power allocation, and environmental claim allocatio…
Preprint🌍 Global2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Global system value of tidal stream energy for cost-effective decarbonisation
Daniel S Coles, Jon Miles, Thomas Adcock
Tidal stream power offers reliable, weather-independent generation that can complement variable solar and wind. Using least-cost capacity expansion modelling across major tidal resource regions, this study quantifies tidal stream's global s…
Peer-reviewedJournalSystem Research in Energy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
ASSESSMENT OF THE DECARBONIZATION POTENTIAL OF URBAN DISTRICT HEATING SYSTEMS BASED ON A BOILER PLANT RECONSTRUCTION MODEL: A CASE STUDY OF VINNYTSIA
Nataliia Ivanenko, Olena Maliarenko
This paper assesses the decarbonization potential of urban district heating modernization in Ukraine, quantifying natural gas and CO2 reductions via an energy-balance heat-production model. Using Vinnytsia as a case study, it analyzes bioma…
Peer-reviewedCNJournalJournal of the Knowledge Economy2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Accelerating Decarbonization in Data Center Infrastructure in Smart Cities With Digitalization: Insights From Shenzhen (China) and Cyberjaya (Malaysia) for Promoting Net-Zero Emissions
Kai Chen Goh, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Jia Wen Kong +9
This study examines decarbonization of data center infrastructure in smart cities through digitalization, drawing on cases from Shenzhen (China) and Cyberjaya (Malaysia). It derives implications for net-zero emissions pathways, linking urba…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalEnergy Nexus2026#Energy TransitionDOI
The energy-policy nexus under uncertainty: a probabilistic framework for power sector decarbonization in major U.S. states
Yazan Alsmadi, Esraa S. Abdelall, Najat Almasarwah
This paper develops a probabilistic framework to analyze power sector decarbonization pathways in major U.S. states under uncertainty. It assesses how policy, technology, and economic uncertainties affect decarbonization targets, offering i…
Peer-reviewedJournalInternational Journal of Engineering and Modern Technology2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Comparative Analysis of Diesel and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as Marine Fuels
O. O. Wasiu
This study compares diesel and LNG marine engines on technical performance, economics, and environmental impact, using MATLAB/Excel modeling, NVivo analysis of seven expert interviews, and Monte Carlo simulation (n=10,000). LNG achieves hig…
Peer-reviewedCNJournalChina Economic Journal2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Automation and decarbonization: the role of industrial robots in China
Wen-Qi Zhao, Kunpeng Liu
Using STIRPAT models on 281 Chinese cities (2008-2023), this study finds industrial robots cut total carbon emissions short-to-medium term but not long-term, while carbon intensity falls consistently. A rebound effect from firm scale expans…
CN2026 IEEE/IAS Industrial and Commercial Power System Asia (I&CPS Asia)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
A Day-Ahead Electricity Price Forecasting Method Considering the Boundary Conditions of the Electricity Market and the Carbon Footprint Factor
Jia-Wei Zhang, Han Wang, Ning Zhang +4
This paper proposes a day-ahead electricity price forecasting method integrating market boundary conditions and the electricity carbon footprint factor. It screens key features via Pearson, Spearman, and MIC, then applies a CNN-BiLSTM-Multi…
CN2026 IEEE/IAS Industrial and Commercial Power System Asia (I&CPS Asia)2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Research on Electricity-Carbon Optimization Pathways Considering Distribution Network Investment Costs
Bo Miao, Wan-Shui Yu, Jing Li +6
This paper proposes a joint electricity-carbon planning-operation optimization model for distribution networks with high-penetration renewables and storage. It amortizes construction costs to a daily scale and integrates intra-day schedulin…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalEng—Advances in Engineering2026#Energy TransitionDOI
Economic Costs and Benefits of Fuel Transition in the International Shipping Sector Under the IMO Net-Zero Framework
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…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalApplied Economics2026#Energy TransitionDOI
How does household ageing influence cooking energy transition in rural China? A bargaining between elderly and non-elderly adults
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…