GX & Decarbonization Research

D Von Dufving, Andrew Norton, Patricia Schneider-Marin +4

This study improves dynamic LCA for biogenic carbon in harvested wood products (HWPs), presenting a novel GWP-biogenic framework that captures climate-domain, species, and component differences. Using detailed biomass inventories, it shows …

Napat Jakrawatana, Wiphaphorn Sombat, Arisara Charoenpanyanet +1

This study simulates a 10-year (2024–2033) transition from highland maize monoculture to perennial agroforestry (coffee, cocoa, bamboo) across 19 Thai provinces using biophysical models (RUSLE, SCS-CN, IPCC Tier-1 carbon coefficients). Full…

Salony Rajbhandari, Toshihiko Masui, Bundit Limmeechokchai +2

Using a soft-linked AIM/Enduse and AIM/CGE framework, this study assesses Thailand’s NDC3.0 and net-zero pathways under 2025 vs. 2030 emissions peak scenarios. Delaying the peak raises cumulative emissions by 1–3% and yields short-term GDP …

Wilman‐Santiago Ochoa‐Moreno

Using a balanced 44-country panel (2003-2022), this study estimates conditional associations between consumption-based ecological footprint per capita, income, energy use, trade openness, and institutional quality via CCEMG and related esti…

Yngve Solli Heiret

As European state-owned electric utilities expand in renewable generation, this article reframes the 'green capitalist state', arguing states are not merely de-risking private green accumulation but emerging as major owners and profiteers o…

Elizabeth Rogers, Umar Mohammad, Ian Atroshchenko +4

This paper introduces Health-Aware Optimal Power Flow (H-OPF), which integrates the public-health externalities of electricity generation into grid dispatch optimization. Because air pollution dispersion depends on emission location, intens…

Wida SİMZARİ, Ali Güneş, Farshad Ganji +2

This paper proposes an explainable digital twin (SEDT) and evolutionary optimizer (SEEFO) integrating regenerative agriculture, climate-resilient food systems, and sustainable nutrition. It operationalizes the food–water–energy–carbon–nutri…

Arkadiusz Stanisław Weremczuk, Mariusz Grębowiec

Using EUROSTAT SHARES data for EU-27 (2004–2024), this study compares renewable shares across electricity, transport, and heating/cooling. All sectors advanced, but electricity led while transport lagged. Relative dispersion fell yet absolu…

Marcos Gutierrez, Diana Taco

A system dynamics model estimates the global transition time to EV dominance by capturing feedbacks among adoption, charging infrastructure, and learning-curve cost declines. Doubling early adoption propensity cuts time to 50% penetration f…

Lelo Tshivhase

A PRISMA 2020 systematic review (14 studies) critically assesses whether the global just energy transition (JET) is truly just in the Global South. Drawing on African, Latin American, and South Asian cases, it shows how financing, technolog…

Joseph U. Akiang

This paper reviews drivers of mangrove degradation in the Niger Delta—Africa's largest mangrove forest—including oil pollution, deforestation, and urbanization. It argues that restoration acts as a cost-effective nature-based solution deliv…

Tansel Dogan, Hernan Flores, Sylwia Jarosławska-Sobór +1

A qualitative comparative review of coal transition pathways in Germany's Ruhr, Poland's Upper Silesia, and Czechia's Moravian-Silesian Region. It examines governance coordination, phase-out clarity, labour-market instruments, innovation st…

Ekaterina Federova, Adam Hearn, Iljana Schubert +1

This toolbox supports the planning, development, operation and scaling of Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) and Positive Energy Districts (PEDs). Based on a systematic literature review, it identifies key barriers and enablers ('meta-fact…

Jean‐Michel Glachant, Ramakrishnan Atreya

This paper measures the actual energy transition in ten non-Western countries (China, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Chile, Türkiye) over 2013–2024 using 21 indicators across three steps: solar/wind gr…

C. D. Obinya

A mixed-methods study in Nigeria's South-South region (400 survey respondents, 60 interviews) finds renewable energy is perceived as significantly improving public health, reducing air pollution and respiratory disease (t=30.91, p<0.05). De…

Isaac Ketu, Germain Stephane Ketchoua

Using EKC framework and system GMM on 2000–2023 data from 53 African countries, this study examines how digitalisation, the knowledge economy, and government spending shape energy transition. Digitalisation initially impedes but eventually …

Duc-Khanh Nguyen, Simon Andersson, Annika Kristoffersson

This study evaluates life-cycle GHG emissions of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) with different powertrain configurations in Europe. Comparing battery capacities of 20–45 kWh and one to three electric machines, the P2 layout showed…

Wenqian Jiang, Line Roald

This paper envisions how electricity markets could evolve to account for carbon-aware consumption from computing and other loads. It proposes expressing consumer low-carbon preferences as an explicit carbon cost (akin to a consumer-defined …

Hugues Perraut, Joseph Le Bihan, Éric Herbert +1

This study reconstructs long-term material and energy dynamics of U.S. road vehicles, separating professional and consumer assets. Installed power, mass, and fuel use diverge across categories, and engine oversizing plus fleet redundancy im…

Dominion Ikponmosa Okhirebhu

This qualitative study examines policy and regulatory barriers hindering Nigeria's renewable energy transition despite frameworks like REMP and NREEEP. Using secondary data, it identifies inadequate funding, bureaucratic inefficiency, incon…