Dear Colleagues,

Greenhouse gases and other pollutant emissions caused by energy consumption have posed a severe threat to environmental sustainability and human survival. Therefore, clean, renewable, and sustainable energy is greatly required daily to improve social, economic, and environmental health, leading to economic development and productivity. Moreover, in order to achieve the global carbon neutrality target, a green and low-carbon energy strategy must be promoted. Replacing fossil fuel sources with non-fossil-fuel sources is a rather challenging task. Maintaining the balance between crucial aspects such as non-polluting or very low-polluting energy sources and energy efficiency is critical to achieve steady energy supplies and an excellent ecological environment.

This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for researchers, policy makers, entrepreneurs, and the public to obtain advanced academic achievements in energy conservation, emission reduction, environmental sustainability, and low-carbon development. We encourage the implementation of research on green energy strategies at macro and micro levels from a theoretical or practical perspective, and we look forward to your valuable insights into energy transformation, green technology innovation, and low-carbon development. Topics of interest for this article collection include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Energy transition and low-carbon development;
• Low-carbon technological innovation and application;
• Green transformation and upgrading of industries;
• Carbon neutrality and emission peaking;
• Technological innovation and advancement in energy and environmental efficiency;
• Sustainable energy supply and consumption;
• The nexus between economic development and energy technological innovation to improve environmental sustainability;
• Green finance and carbon trading;
• Digital transition towards carbon neutrality;
• Energy poverty and energy equity;
• Energy conservation and carbon reduction policy;
• The synergistic effect of pollution reduction and carbon reduction;
• The economic and social cost of energy conservation and carbon reduction.

Dr. Lin Yang
Dr. Yiming Li
Guest Editors

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• energy transition
• energy–environment–economic nexus
• energy poverty and energy equity
• energy conservation and carbon reduction policy
• carbon peaking and carbon neutrality
• energy finance
• energy and envrionmental efficiency
• sustainable energy consumption
• energy digitization
• low-carbon technology innovation
• marginal abatement cost