Paths to Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2023) | Viewed by 491
Special Issue Editors
Interests: resource recovery; wastewater treatment; life cycle assessment; environmental chemistry; aquatic toxicology; desalination
Interests: environmental management; human health risk assessment; environmental microbiology; sustainable development; soil remediation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to understand existing and potential decarbonization paths to guide the transition to a net-zero emission economy. Manuscripts may focus on the analysis of conventional and/or new-emerging greenhouse-gas pollution mitigation approaches/techniques/framework, with an emphasis on the implications on energy and water sustainability or nexus. Manuscripts may also address industry-based or case-based solutions for greenhouse gas-pollution reductions, with special consideration to life-cycle aspects, geographic features, social and economic diversity, and environmental justice. Relevant questions within the theme of this Special Issue may include the following: How can we deploy effective greenhouse-gas pollution mitigation approaches with the co-benefits of energy and water sustainability? What are the potential technical, social-economic, and environmental tradeoffs among different paths for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions? How might different greenhouse-gas pollution mitigation approaches affect social-economic systems and the human-resources nexus?
Subject areas may include but are not limited to, the following:
- Review articles that summarize the state-of-art of existing mitigation technologies in a particular field, including their prospects and technological readiness level for market penetration.
- Development of new technologies that aim to decarbonize a particular carbon-intensive sector, i.e., building space heating, steel production, and power generation.
- Framework or assessment of mitigation technologies that look at the life cycle, energy justice, environmental justice, etc.
Dr. Lei Hu
Prof. Dr. Jianli Jia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- emission mitigation
- decarbonization
- sustainability
- carbon capture
- net-zero emissions
- life-cycle impact analysis
- resource recovery
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