GX Research Hub · English
GX & Decarbonization Research
This page provides an English interface to the gxceed GX paper corpus. The corpus aggregates papers from 13 open 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.
🌍 GlobalJournalUnited Nations eBooks2026#Transition FinanceDOI
Leveraging Foreign Direct Investment to Advance National Climate Plans
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
This guide provides policymakers with a practical roadmap to translate climate objectives into investment opportunities. It outlines approaches to integrate investment and FDI needs into NDCs, align national policy frameworks with climate g…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalJ-STAGE#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Progress of Sustainability Standards as a 'Global Baseline' and Disclosure of Human Capital Information
「グローバル・ベースライン」としてのサステナビリティ基準の進展と人的資本の情報開示
(著者不明)
This paper reviews the progress of sustainability disclosure standards as a 'global baseline' proposed by the ISSB, with a focus on human capital information disclosure. It discusses the trends in international standardization and implicati…
🇺🇸 USAJournalStanford Digital Repository2026#GreenwashingDOI
"Searching for Signals of Credible Intent in Corporate Climate Reports" presented by Aldís Elfarsdóttir at the 2026 Sustainability Data Science Conference
Aldís Elfarsdóttir, Markus Pelger, Chase Hikida +3
This study identifies five credibility signals in corporate climate reports using NLP: emissions data parity, third-party verification, reporting consistency, specific language, and specific initiatives. Analyzing 118,724 firm-year observat…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalEnvironmental Policy and Governance2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Different Conditions, Yet Similar Outcomes: How Interaction Between Policy Areas Enabled Carbon Tax Adoption in Sweden and Mexico
Jakob Skovgaard, Åsa Knaggård, Roger Hildingsson +1
This paper compares carbon tax adoption in Sweden and Mexico, finding that despite different contexts, similar factors such as ideational change and fiscal reform windows enabled adoption. It highlights the importance of coalition-building …
🇪🇺 Europe📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalJournal of Industrial Ecology2026#SBT/SBTiDOI
Corporate carbon performance and the Science-Based Targets initiative: disentangling the effects across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions
Martin Schüder, Henning Zülch
This study examines whether SBTi participation improves corporate carbon performance across emission scopes. Using coarsened exact matching and OLS regression on 3,113 listed firms (2015-2024) in Europe, North America, and Asia, it finds co…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalCommunications Earth & Environment2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Carbon cost pass-through and access to capital shape firms’ carbon strategies
Anastasiya Ostrovnaya, Jan Ahrens, Julian Smart +2
This paper analyzes the effects of carbon pricing on firms' financial profiles, focusing on cash flows and margins of steel and cement firms under various scenarios. The key determinant is carbon cost pass-through ability, and capital marke…
CN📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalSustainability2026#Carbon AccountingDOI
Predicting Corporate Carbon Disclosure in China: Evidence from Interpretable Machine Learning
He Peng Yang, Norhaiza Bt. Khairudin, Danilah Salleh
This study uses 48,187 observations of Chinese A-share firms from 2012 to 2024 to develop an interpretable machine learning model predicting corporate carbon disclosure. GBDT achieves the best out-of-sample performance (R²=0.5191). Key pred…
🌍 GlobalPreprintInternational Journal of Environmental Sciences2025#ESGDOI
Green Governance 4.0: Leveraging Law, Management, And Digital Technologies For Environmental Sustainability
Dr. Rajat Dixit, Dr. Govind Prasad Goyal, Dr. Archana Singh +4
This paper proposes 'Green Governance 4.0', a new paradigm integrating law, management, and digital technologies for environmental sustainability. It argues that combining adaptive legal regimes (e.g., Paris Agreement, CSRD, ISSB), strategi…
🇪🇺 EuropePreprintThe Journal of Risk Finance2025#ESGDOI
Impact of EU corporate sustainability reporting directive on financial performance: evidence from companies
Jiaman Li, Tongtong Zhao, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary
This study uses DID analysis on 451 EU listed firms from 2018-2023 to examine CSRD's impact on financial performance. CSRD significantly improves financial performance, especially for firms with older boards, smaller size, and higher female…
CN📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalJournal of innovation and development2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Empirical Study and Prediction on the Influencing Factors of Carbon Emission Rights Trading Prices-Taking the National Carbon Emission Rights Trading Market in China as an Example
Mingyu Liang, Yiling Zuo
This paper studies the Chinese national carbon market from 2021 to 2025 using OLS regression with variables including policy, EUA prices, GDP, HS300, coal prices, and international oil prices. Findings show that policies and energy prices a…
🌍 GlobalPreprintJournal of Environmental & Earth Sciences2025#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Materiality in Environmental Information Disclosure: A Comparative Analysis of the Securities Law of the United States and China
null Wu Huihui, Hasani Mohd Ali , null Hazlina Shaik Md Noor Alam
This study compares materiality in environmental disclosure under US and Chinese securities laws. The US uses a financial materiality standard, while China adopts double materiality considering both financial and environmental/social impact…
🇪🇺 EuropePreprintCrossref2025#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Does the EU Taxonomy Regulation Nudge Investors? Evidence from STOXX Europe 600 Firms
Quentin ARNAUD, Sophie GIORDANO-SPRING, Pierre CHOLLET
This paper analyzes the impact of EU Taxonomy Regulation disclosures on mutual fund ownership using STOXX Europe 600 firms data from 2021-2022. High eligible revenues correlate with lower conventional fund ownership, while high alignment ra…
🌍 GlobalPreprintCrossref2025#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
Standards on Corporate and Public Sustainability Reporting
Peter Glavič
This article provides an overview of sustainability reporting standards (SRS) for corporate, public, and individual levels. It describes voluntary standards (ISO, GRI), mandatory ones (ESRS, IFRS), and notes national alignment with IFRS. It…
🇪🇺 Europe📚 Peer-reviewed · JournalAnnual Review of Resource Economics2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Happy Birthday: Twenty Years of the EU ETS
Thomas Sterner, Dallas Burtraw, Jos Delbeke +3
This paper reviews 20 years of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), the world's largest carbon market. It highlights how the system evolved from initial price collapse to effective emission reductions through the Market Stability Reser…
🌍 GlobalPreprintBusiness Strategy & Development2025#ESGDOI
Environmental Social and Governance Materiality Assessment: A Research Agenda
Muhammad Sani Khamisu, Ratna Achuta Paluri
This paper systematically maps ESG materiality assessment literature using co-citation, keyword co-occurrence, and thematic analyses, identifying four historical and five current clusters. It underscores the need to understand double materi…
🌍 GlobalPreprintCrossref2025#Disclosure InfrastructureDOI
PADV – ESG Behavioral Data Verification Methodology White Paper (v2.0)
Anderson Yu
The PADV methodology introduces a governance layer for ESG by converting individual and corporate actions into verifiable behavioral data. It includes 30 standardized modules and a Proof Record mechanism that produces audit trails aligned w…
🌍 GlobalPreprintFuture Business Journal2025#ESGDOI
Environmental Sustainability Reporting: A Systematic and Bibliometric Review of Two Decades of Research
Elena Rivo-López, Mónica Villanueva-Villar, Carmen Pardo-López +1
This study presents a hybrid literature review combining bibliometric mapping and structured review of 257 articles on environmental sustainability reporting from 2005 to May 2024. It identifies four research clusters: sustainability accoun…
🇪🇺 EuropePreprintManagement Decision2025#ESGDOI
The effect of ESG disclosure on firm value in the European context
Atif Mahmood, Asad Mehmood, Simone Terzani +2
This study examines the effect of ESG disclosure on firm value using panel data of EU firms from 2014 to 2024. It finds that although average ESG disclosure scores decreased after the CSRD issuance, ESG disclosure has a significant positive…
🌍 GlobalPreprintJurnal Ar Ro'is Mandalika (Armada)2025#GreenwashingDOI
The Role of the Assurance Dimension of Sustainability Reporting on Greenwashing: Systematic Literature Review
Riska Handani, Syahril Djaddang
This paper systematically reviews how four assurance dimensions (existence, provider, level, scope) of sustainability reporting affect greenwashing. Analyzing 20 peer-reviewed articles (2020-2025), it finds that high-quality assurance enhan…
🌍 Global📚 Peer-reviewed · Journal2026#Carbon PricingDOI
Carbon pricing as a tool for cross-border carbon regulation and the green transformation of the global economy
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This paper positions carbon pricing as a crucial tool for cross-border carbon regulation and the green transformation of the global economy. It likely discusses mechanisms for international carbon price adjustment and the need for policy ha…