GX & Decarbonization Research

Funny Chibwe, Tendai James Mapanga

This study examines expert perspectives on AI-enabled ESG carbon accounting and reporting in Zimbabwe. It highlights AI's potential to automate carbon measurement and disclosure while identifying data infrastructure and institutional gaps a…

Danqing Lin, Dan He, Yu Zhao

This study introduces a multi-agent LLM framework that extracts ESG and financial indicators directly from banks' annual reports, using category-specific prompts to handle synonyms, scales and unit inconsistencies. Applied to hundreds of re…

Agnieszka Karman, Małgorzata Rutkowska, Jarosław Banaś

A qualitative study (15 expert interviews, 2025) examining how graphic elements in ESG reports shape interpretation, emotional response, and trust. Charts and data visualizations are seen as most effective for their analytical and navigatio…

Michael R. King, Paul W. Beamish

This study examines how pairing internal climate oversight (board-level governance) with Science-Based Targets drives corporate GHG emission reductions. It highlights the synergy between internal governance mechanisms and externally validat…

Emmanuel Onwioduokit, Godwin E. Bassey, Mfon E. Okon +1

Using Nigerian annual data (1990–2024) and time-series econometrics, this study assesses government climate strategies. Short-run climate outcomes are driven by government climate footprint, renewable energy strategy, and GDP per capita; lo…

Prashant Das

Using parcel-level land price data (2019–2024) from Andhra Pradesh, India, this study estimates how RCP4.5/8.5 climate risks are capitalized into agricultural land prices. A 1% rise in rainfall raises prices ~3%, while a 1°C rise in project…

Justin E. Silpe, Karla Damian-Medina, Sarah M. Reyes +1

This review compares environmental burdens of breastfeeding versus commercial milk formula, estimating 5.9-7.5 billion kg CO2e added annually by formula use in infants under 6 months. It identifies a reinforcing feedback loop where climate …

Giovanni Battista Gaggero, Zeeshan Afzal, Afroz Mokarim +3

This paper analyzes the communication requirements and cybersecurity challenges of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) and proposes a secure architecture integrating wired and wireless technologies. The design is scalable, cost-efficient, a…

Owen Hetherington

This policy brief examines structural barriers limiting Black Texans' representation and advancement across oil, gas, and renewable energy industries. Drawing on workforce data and policy analysis, it identifies inequities in recruitment, l…

Seaver Wang, Peter J. Cook, Ryan Alimento +4

This study models future energy transition mineral demand for power and transport in India, Bangladesh, and ASEAN. By 2050 these regions may consume at levels comparable to the US, yet domestic mining falls short—especially for graphite and…

Paresh Kumar Narayan, Karan Rai, Bhavesh Garg +1

This study examines how temperature shocks and the renewable energy transition affect inflation in island economies. It links climate variability to macroeconomic price dynamics through the lens of energy transition. Without an abstract, me…

Corentin Khosrovaninejad, Simon Martel, Clothilde Tronquet

This report assesses how private financing mechanisms can scale up carbon farming in Europe. It maps the market through two channels: the Voluntary Carbon Market and agricultural value chain schemes such as price premiums tied to corporate …

Ogunboyo Patrick Taiwo, Magi Emoemi Stephen, Ailemen Divine Omoefe

This review critically examines the technical, legal, financial and institutional barriers to integrating renewable energy into Nigeria's power grid. Despite substantial solar, wind, hydro and biomass potential, weak policies, poor infrastr…

Arezoo Boroomandnia, Reihaneh Bandari, Behzad Rismanchi +1

First basin-scale estimate of irrigation energy use and emissions in Australia's Murray–Darling Basin, built from public datasets in a transparent top-down framework. Irrigation emissions range 4.5–9.01 Mt CO2-e/yr (0.53–1.06 t CO2-e per ML…

Emmanuel Ogbonnia Oko, Chidinma Sarah Njoku

A narrative review synthesizing post-2015 evidence on GHG emissions and climate impacts for maize, wheat, rice and soybean. N₂O dominates upland systems via nitrogen fertilization, while CH₄ is key in flooded rice; results are highly sensit…

Binqi Yan

This study builds a global unit-level inventory of rare earth element (REE) emissions from cement production, integrating facility-level clinker data, technology, socioeconomic indicators, and element-specific emission factors. The sector e…

Felix Maximilian Kania

This study matches facility-level GHG emissions from the US GHGRP self-reports against Climate TRACE satellite estimates and uses machine learning and Bayesian inference to identify drivers of discrepancies. Facility-specific effects explai…

Aditya Chauhan

This paper proposes a structural blueprint to transition Dhanbad, India's monocentric coal-extractive basin, into a circular, regenerative "Food Diamond" economy centered on decentralized mushroom cultivation. Leveraging existing rail logis…

José Miranda Dias

Analyzes how climate-driven extreme events threaten construction firms and buildings—project delays, supply-chain disruption, insurance litigation, productivity loss. Evaluates management strategies using information systems for anomaly det…

Jonathan M. Verschuuren, Natalia Mæhle, Pia Piroschka Otte

This article assesses how three new EU laws—the carbon removals certification framework (2024/3012), the nature restoration regulation (2024/1991), and the soil monitoring directive (2025/2360)—facilitate on-farm soil carbon sequestration. …