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🇨🇳 ChinaJournalFrontiers in Environmental Science2026#PolicyDOI
How do China’s low-carbon pilot policies reshape urban ecological performance across time and space?
Ge Sun, Yating Fu
Using a staggered difference-in-differences design across 273 Chinese cities (2006-2023), this study tests whether low-carbon pilot policies (LCPPs) improve urban ecological welfare performance (EWP). Green technological innovation and digi…
🇯🇵→🌍 Japan-to-Global🇯🇵 JapanDatasetFigshare2026#PolicyDOI
Critical discourse analysis on Japan’s carbon neutrality declaration in October 2020: rationale of the government’s decision
Mariho Asai
This study applies Fairclough's three-dimensional critical discourse analysis to explain Japan's October 2020 carbon neutrality declaration. It identifies the 'virtuous cycle of economy and environment' and top-down leadership rhetoric as t…
Peer-reviewedCNJournalJournal of Cleaner Production2026#PolicyDOI
Predicting staggered carbon peaking in the logistics industry: Evidence from China's new international land-sea trade corridor
Liu Chen, Haixiang Feng, Luping Qin +2
This study predicts staggered carbon peaking in China's logistics industry along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor. It highlights how peak timing varies across regions and segments, informing decarbonization pathway design for l…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalSustainability2026#PolicyDOI
Greening of Africa: Analyzing the Effects of Green Taxes, Green Innovations, and Green Energy on Green Logistics
Hussaini Bala, Abdulaziz Saud Al Naim, Abdulrahman Alomair +2
Using World Bank and OECD data for 23 African countries (2008–2022), this study examines how green taxation, green innovation, and renewable energy affect green logistics. Green taxes and innovation show significant positive effects, while …
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalEnergy Economics2026#PolicyDOI
Does the Low-Carbon City Pilot policy promote green innovation collaboration? Evidence from knowledge embeddedness and complexity
Qijun Xie, Dengjie Yuan, Xiangyang Li
This study empirically examines whether China's Low-Carbon City Pilot policy promotes green innovation collaboration, using knowledge embeddedness and complexity as analytical lenses. It analyzes how the policy shapes the structure and qual…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#PolicyDOI
Trade, Climate Adaptation and Low-Carbon Transitions Academic Contributions on Agri-Food Systems, Traceability and a Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy
Danielle Mendes Thame Denny, Rubmara Ketzer Oliveira, Priscila Benelli Walker +1
This paper proposes an applied research and technical-legal cooperation agenda for the Integrated Forum on Climate Change and Trade (IFCCT). It integrates international economic law, environmental law, and institutional implementation analy…
Peer-reviewedJournalApollo (University of Cambridge)2026#PolicyDOI
The need to embed critical mineral governance in the Paris Agreement
Gretel Cuevas Verdin, Jonathan M. Cullen
The Paris Agreement promotes low-emission technologies but fails to recognize that manufacturing EVs, batteries, and solar panels depends on extracting and trading critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and rare earths. This paper argues f…
Preprint🌍 GlobalFigshare2026#PolicyDOI
A Global Strategy for Reducing Climate-Pollution Systemic Risk: Connecting prevention, adaptation, clean technology, finance, and development policy
Hunter Hughes
Frames climate pollution as one upstream driver of coupled systemic risks transmitted through shared channels. Proposes five complementary levers—prevention, clean technology, adaptation, finance, and development policy—arguing failures ste…
🇪🇺 EuropeJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#PolicyDOI
Climate policy portfolio structures predict green innovation shifts
Patrick Klösel, Nils Rochowicz
This study empirically shows that the structure of climate policy portfolios predicts shifts in green innovation. It highlights that combinations of policies, rather than single instruments, shape innovation direction. Released as a replica…
Peer-reviewedJournalBritish Journal of Arts and Humanities2026#PolicyDOI
Climate Governance and Local Sustainable Development: Institutional Capacity and Policy Implementation in Bangladesh
Md. Rajiur Rahman Arif*
A qualitative institutional case study of local climate governance in Bangladesh, drawing on 30 interviews, six focus groups and document analysis. Administrative, technical, financial and coordination capacities shape implementation effect…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalGlobal Environmental Change Advances2026#PolicyDOI
Revisiting climate policy assumptions: What empirical market data reveal about substitution and leakage
Caren Christine Dymond, Adam B. Robertson, Doug Hopwood
Many climate policy assessments assume a 100% substitution ratio, where supply changes in one product equally offset consumption of alternatives. Using a material-balance model of the 1988–1998 U.S. softwood lumber supply shock, the authors…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalJournal of Business Research2026#PolicyDOI
Does international collaborative R&D expand the boundaries of regional low-carbon innovation?
Chaojun Yang, Wang Liu, Peng Ma
Using provincial panel data on China's manufacturing sector (2012–2023), this study applies a Behavior-Capability-Outcome framework to examine how international collaborative R&D shapes regional low-carbon innovation boundaries. It finds an…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalAcademic journal of management and social sciences2026#PolicyDOI
Dynamic Relationship between Economic Growth, Foreign Trade and Carbon Emissions Based on the VECM Model
Jiaxian Liu, Jiawei Liu, Yifei Feng +1
Using Chinese annual data (2000-2024), this paper applies VECM, cointegration, and Granger causality tests to examine links among economic growth, foreign trade, and carbon emissions. Trade and growth unidirectionally drive emissions, with …
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalPisa Sant'Anna2026#PolicyDOI
Steering Carbon Farming Transition: An Agent-Based Exploration of Incentive Mechanisms
Elisa Grugni, Davide Bezzana, Mattia Guerini
This paper uses an agent-based model to study farmer adoption of carbon farming under alternative incentive designs. Action-based subsidies drive rapid adoption but raise policy costs and threaten food production, while result-based payment…
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 …