GX & Decarbonization Research

Mohsen Mokhtarian, Wu Xiaomeng, Xiaojun Liao +1

This study evaluates the impact of nonthermal pretreatments on tomato slice drying regarding kinetics, energy efficiency, carbon footprint, and quality. It highlights potential energy and environmental savings in food processing, though its…

‬‬‬Mohammad Khaled al-Bashiti, M.Z. Naser

This paper presents an autonomous ML approach using Bayesian optimization and NSGA-II/III to optimize green concrete mixtures. Analyzing over 2,300 real mixes, it achieves an average 40% reduction in CO2 emissions and 30% reduction in mater…

Amelia Willits-Smith, Jill Reedy, Donald Rose +2

This study examines the association between dietary carbon footprint and colorectal cancer risk using the NIH-AARP cohort. Higher carbon footprint diets are linked to increased cancer risk, suggesting co-benefits of sustainable diets for he…

Joshua Enrique Ignacio, Jewel A. Capunitan, Maria Victoria Migo-Sumagang

This study simulates a commercial-scale thraustochytrid biomass production process using distillery wastewater as feedstock, with DWSIM and carbon footprint analysis. Electricity consumption, especially freeze-dryer, is the main emission ho…

Trésor Ndengo Tietia, Rostin Mabela Matendo Makengo, Pierre Kasengedia Motumbe +4

This paper proposes a smart network resource management model using AI (DQN, Q-Learning, PSO, ACO) to optimize energy consumption of IT infrastructures in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Simulations show up to 32% energy reduction and 21.…

Jee Yeon Hong, Suzy Kim, Hana Jo +2

This paper evaluates the co-benefits of sustainable diets in corporate cafeterias, focusing on both carbon footprint reduction and nutritional density improvement. Through data analysis, it quantifies the greenhouse gas reduction and health…

Jana Straßheim, Christophe A. H. Bousquet, Johanna Köchling +2

This paper proposes the 'Food Twin Method' to identify blind spots in consumers' carbon footprint judgments for food products. Through experiments or surveys, it reveals cognitive biases in consumer perception, offering insights for more ef…

Ruiping Wang, Meihang Zhang, Lin Zhang

This paper proposes a spatiotemporal quantification method for carbon footprint from electric vehicle (EV) charging. By analyzing urban charging patterns, it reveals spatial and temporal distribution of emissions, providing insights for eff…

Rohan Basu Roy

This resource provides the code and scripts of HolyDiver, a system that makes serverless computing aware of water and carbon footprints, aiming to optimize and reduce environmental impact in cloud computing.

Camilla Citterio, Nicolò Golinucci, Lorenzo Rinaldi +1

This systematic review compares electricity emission factors from multiple authoritative sources (Ecoinvent, EXIOBASE, IEA, etc.) for the EU and US. It finds moderate agreement on direct operational emissions but significant variation in fu…

Christi Kesh, Srishti Singh, Darshna Singh +3

This paper explores pathways to scale durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) through carbon markets in India. It analyzes policy frameworks and market mechanisms to identify conditions necessary for scaling CDR.

Ajmain Inqiad Alam, Palash Ranjan Roy, Chanchal K. Roy +2

We propose Carbon-Taxed Transformers (CTT), a compression pipeline inspired by economic carbon taxation that integrates Neural Architecture Search, structured pruning, quantization, and knowledge distillation. Evaluated on code clone detect…

Charlie J. Davis, David R. Chadwick, Davey L. Jones +1

This study investigates how biochar particle size and nitrogen addition affect the mineralization of biochar-derived carbon and soil organic carbon turnover. Results indicate that both factors influence carbon storage efficiency, providing …

Alberto Boretti

This paper provides the first integrated cradle-to-grave LCA framework and techno-economic assessment for CO₂-derived carbon fibers. It reviews electrochemical synthesis methods converting CO₂ into carbon nanofibers/nanotubes for lightweigh…

Harman Singh, Aparna Sharma, Vaibhav Chaturvedi

This paper analyzes dominant Indian perspectives on the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), discussing its implications for Indian trade and climate policy.

Scott, Eric R., Diaz, Renata, Steinberg, Dani +2

This dataset provides annualized forest carbon and biomass estimates from the US Forest Inventory and Analysis database, processed using the forestTIME R package. It enables time-series analysis of forest carbon stocks and evaluation of cli…

Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio

This article examines the relationship between carbon projects and agrarian change in pastoral rangelands, using the voluntary carbon market in East Africa as a case study. Drawing on Bernstein's 'three problematics' of agrarian studies, it…

Yang Zhang, Na Wang, Jing Shen

This study analyzes inter-provincial carbon transfer and environmental inequality in China's tiered carbon-peaking transition, proposing responsibility reallocation mechanisms. It offers insights for carbon accounting and climate policy des…

Saher Elsayed

This paper presents the first phase-resolved carbon footprint characterization of RLHF, finding that the PPO phase accounts for 59-64% of total training emissions. It introduces CarbonAware-RLHF, a scheduling framework that adaptively shift…

Abdullahi Hussein

This research explores integrating embodied and operational carbon assessment in early architectural design to support low-carbon decision-making without compromising design intent. Using a mixed-method multi-case comparative approach, it a…