Understanding Low-Carbon Development: How Fairness Exists
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (12 October 2023) | Viewed by 347
Special Issue Editors
Interests: low-carbon development; pro-environment behavior; carbon emission; energy policy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Low-carbon development based on low-energy consumption and pollution is becoming a popular topic internationally and a new global trend. The most critical issue in low-carbon development is fairness, which mainly involves considering the efficiency and fairness of emission subjects as well as emission reduction efficiency and development fairness between regions. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to the reasonable allocation of emission quotas based on relative fairness, establishing an allocation mechanism based on “efficiency”, removing barriers to inter-regional emission quota trading, and installing a corresponding inter-local government trading mechanism.
This Special Issue presents original studies on low-carbon development from an equity perspective. It also includes new results on allocating carbon emission quotas, carbon tax, carbon sequestration, the transition tool, and other related topics. Furthermore, this Special Issue offers engineers, managers, and researchers a foundation to exchange results and progress in low-carbon development and related areas.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Allocation of carbon emission quotas；
- Fairness of carbon tax;
- Effective tools for low-carbon transition;
- Fair institutional improvement of low-carbon development;
- The equity of carbon sequestration of industry;
- Carbon emission and equity evaluation model.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Wei Li
Dr. Guomin Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- low-carbon development
- regional developments and carbon emission
- energy policy
- carbon tax
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