Low Carbon Innovation: Energy Policy and Strategic Technology Planning
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 788
Special Issue Editors
Interests: renewable energy investment; energy policy and carbon emission
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a new Special Issue on “Low Carbon Innovation: Energy Policy and Strategic Technology Planning” of the journal Sustainability.
The transition toward a carbon-neutral energy system is a common topic around the world. China has given the promise to achieve its carbon peak and carbon neutrality by 2030 and 2060, respectively. During this process, low-carbon innovation plays a significant role. It calls for more contributions to energy policy design, technological change modeling, and strategic technology planning to promote the low-carbon transition in the energy system.
This Special Issue aims to explore the scientific issues related to technology planning and policy design in consideration of new technology innovation that supports the national carbon neutrality strategy. It seeks to offer new insights into enhancing the modeling capacity to effectively manage low-carbon transition and climate change.
We invite original research articles and critical reviews on topics related (but not limited) to the following:
- Preference and impact analysis of energy policies;
- Policy modeling with multi-agent behaviors and game theory;
- Incentive policies and mechanism design for low-carbon innovation and distribution in various regions and industries;
- Techno-economic analysis for the low-carbon transition in power systems;
- Modeling and dynamic optimization of emission reduction mechanisms;
- Potential for disruptive energy technological innovation to accelerate decarbonization;
- Green finance, corporate green investment, corporate governance structure, and green technology innovation;
- Related topics of outward foreign green direct investment.
Prof. Dr. Mingming Zhang
Dr. Hao Ding
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy transition
- low-carbon innovation
- energy policy
- green technology innovation
- outward foreign green direct investment
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