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  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,136 Views
29 Pages

17 June 2022

It is of great significance to study the regional differences and temporal and spatial evolution of China’s carbon emission intensity under the carbon emissions trading mechanism, and to explore the potential for regional emission reduction. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,481 Views
31 Pages

6 June 2025

Amid intensified global climate mitigation efforts, integrating rail freight into carbon emissions trading schemes became critical under China’s “Dual-Carbon” strategy. Despite rail’s significantly lower emissions intensity co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
278 Views
22 Pages

28 November 2025

In order to study how the production network, energy network, and carbon trading network interact with each other in the process of distributed energy sharing in industrial parks under the carbon emissions trading mechanism, this paper constructs a s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,800 Views
23 Pages

More and more countries employ the Carbon Cap and Trade mechanism (CCT-mechanism) to stimulate the manufacturer to produce much more eco-friendly products. In this paper, we study how the CCT-mechanism affects competitive manufacturers’ product...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,559 Views
27 Pages

In the era of sustainable development, reducing carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality are gradually becoming a consensus for our society. This study explores firms’ incentive mechanisms for carbon emission abatement in a two-echelon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,206 Views
18 Pages

6 June 2023

As urbanization continues to expand in China, carbon emissions (CE) from the construction industry and the amount of construction and demolition waste (C&DW) are rapidly increasing. In order to reduce CEs and environmental hazards, this paper con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,176 Views
22 Pages

25 August 2021

The reduction of carbon emissions from land use (CELU) is critical for China to achieve carbon neutrality, which may be greatly facilitated by carbon trading policies. Previous studies of the emission reduction effects of carbon trading policies focu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,375 Views
13 Pages

22 August 2016

This paper establishes an agent-based simulation system of the carbon emissions trading in accordance with the complex feature of the trading process. This system analyzes the impact of the carbon quota allocation mechanism on emissions trading for t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,045 Views
16 Pages

11 March 2025

Continuous incorporation of rice straw has caused significant CH4 emissions from the paddy field production system in East China. Anaerobic digestion (AD) of the rice straw has been considered as a promising approach that could not only mitigate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,231 Views
25 Pages

24 November 2024

China faces issues such as air pollution and global climate change, and the Carbon Emission Trading Policy (CETP) has attracted considerable attention as a core policy tool for achieving the “dual carbon” goals. Based on panel data from t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,956 Views
18 Pages

2 January 2025

This study aims to investigate the impact of China’s Free Trade Zones (FTZs) on carbon emissions and their underlying mechanisms, addressing the following research questions: (1) Do FTZs significantly affect carbon emissions? (2) Are there spat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,393 Views
25 Pages

1 March 2024

As an important factor affecting ecological sustainability, the food industry’s ecological efficiency (EE) deserves great attention and control. In 2013, China implemented a carbon emissions trading policy (CETP) to limit carbon emissions from...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
928 Views
24 Pages

7 May 2025

The intensifying impacts of climate change induced by carbon emissions necessitate the implementation of urgent mitigation strategies. Given that the power sector is a major contributor to global carbon emissions, strategic decarbonization planning i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,961 Views
23 Pages

8 November 2024

This is the first review study that focuses on the interplay between China’s regulated and voluntary carbon markets, the Emissions Trading System (ETS), the China Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) scheme, and their combined influence on the d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,373 Views
27 Pages

2 October 2020

In order to make optimal decisions for pricing and emission reduction, a remanufacturing supply chain system with dual-sale channels is investigated. With regard to the preferences of consumers for different channels and carbon cap-and-trade mechanis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,174 Views
14 Pages

Research on Supply Chain Optimization Considering Consumer Subsidy Mechanism in the Context of Carbon Neutrality

  • Zheng Liu,
  • Wenzhuo Sun,
  • Bin Hu,
  • Chunjia Han,
  • Petros Ieromonachou,
  • Yuanjun Zhao and
  • Jiazhuo Zheng

30 March 2023

With the proposal of China’s “carbon peak, carbon neutral” strategy, the increasing awareness of low carbon production among consumers, and the government’s introduction of carbon trading mechanism and low carbon consumption s...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,146 Views
10 Pages

13 November 2025

This study examines Pakistan’s steel sector’s readiness to comply with the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which mandates verified emissions disclosures for carbon-intensive imports. Although the sector p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,879 Views
26 Pages

29 April 2019

To study the emission reduction policies’ impact on the production and economic level of the steel industry, this paper constructs a two-stage dynamic game model and analyzes various emission reduction policies’ impact on the steel indust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,164 Views
18 Pages

A Study on the Impact Mechanism of Agricultural Trade on Agricultural Carbon Emissions

  • Yuxiang Luo,
  • Xinchen Gu,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Ngoye Tonda Indy-Lee Anderson,
  • Dungang Zang and
  • Qianling Shen

31 May 2025

Controlling agricultural carbon emissions is crucial for addressing global environmental challenges. As a major player in agricultural trade, China needs to explore a specific pathway to reduce its agricultural carbon emissions. This study delves int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,014 Views
31 Pages

10 June 2025

Promoting carbon emission reduction in road freight transportation is important to achieve low-carbon development. The carbon trading mechanism is an effective market mechanism to promote carbon emission reduction. The digital and networked features...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,604 Views
19 Pages

Given the rural revitalization strategy in the new era, agricultural development is faced with the dual constraints of resources and the environment. Promoting the green development of agriculture is one of the important missions to solve major socia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,671 Views
21 Pages

30 September 2022

Based on the panel data from 2004 to 2018, this paper evaluates the effect of carbon emission trading policies launched in 2014 on the development of green economy in pilot areas by using synthetic control methods, and further studies the mechanism o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,512 Views
13 Pages

Based on the panel data of 281 prefecture-level cities in China, from 2007 to 2017, we empirically explore the co-benefits of the carbon emissions trading scheme. We found that the carbon emissions trading scheme effectively achieved the coordinated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,391 Views
27 Pages

With the continuous spread of cap-and-trade mechanisms and consumers’ great concerns about environmental issues, manufacturers strive to reduce carbon emissions. Unfortunately, they are not always willing to disclose their accurate emission red...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,621 Views
23 Pages

19 August 2024

Based on different carbon quota trading mechanisms, the price and emission reduction strategies of oligopoly manufacturers in the low-carbon market and the government carbon quota mechanism are considered. A dynamic game evolution model of the two ol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,621 Views
38 Pages

15 November 2022

As the division of labor in global industrial value chains deepens, the embedded relationships and carbon emission relationships among countries become more complex. First, calculate the embedding indices of forward and backward global industrial val...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,005 Views
20 Pages

13 October 2022

The carbon emission trading system, as a significant policy instrument to ensure the Chinese economy achieves a green and low carbon transition, will also affect economic enterprise efficiency. This paper takes listed enterprises in a Chinese carbon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,561 Views
16 Pages

11 July 2018

The pilot policy of carbon emissions trading rights covers six heavy pollution industries in the manufacturing industry and has achieved considerable emission reductions. Based on enterprise behavior, this study analyzes the impact of the carbon emis...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,695 Views
20 Pages

18 October 2022

This study explores the impact and mechanism of the digital economy on the tourism service trade. We adopted two-way fixed effects and mediating effects models, and conducted empirical studies based on panel data of 30 provinces (municipalities and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,645 Views
23 Pages

13 February 2025

To promote the low-carbon energy transition, China is implementing renewable energy (RE) development policies such as renewable portfolio standards (RPSs), carbon emissions trading (CET) and China certified emission reduction (CCER) trading. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,602 Views
47 Pages

4 October 2024

In the context of increasing global efforts to mitigate climate change, effective carbon emission reduction is a pressing issue. Governments and power companies are key stakeholders in implementing low-carbon strategies, but their interactions requir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,919 Views
16 Pages

China’s carbon peaking and carbon neutrality targets have created huge challenges for all the economic sectors in China, including the shipping industry. Various emission reduction measures, such as Waste Heat Recovery Systems (WHRSs), Drag Red...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
17,213 Views
18 Pages

Pitfalls of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

  • Byeongho Lim,
  • Kyoungseo Hong,
  • Jooyoung Yoon,
  • Jeong-In Chang and
  • Inkyo Cheong

4 November 2021

The European Union (EU), which has led international discussions on global warming, officially announced its plan for the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in July 2021. Many existing studies have indicated the CBAM will curtail greenhouse ga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,283 Views
8 Pages

11 March 2019

The purpose of this research was to probe beyond the scope of the “National Strategy Project on Carbon Mineralization” to develop a “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Clean Development Mechanism” (UNFCCC C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,395 Views
15 Pages

23 September 2020

Recently, the environmental and resource crisis caused by excessive energy consumption has aroused great concern worldwide. China is a major country of energy consumption and carbon emissions, and has attempted to build a carbon emission trading mark...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,041 Views
15 Pages

20 October 2024

With the intensification of global climate change issues and increasingly stringent carbon emission controls, carbon emissions trading has become a crucial market-based mechanism for reducing carbon emissions. A deeper understanding of the factors in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,692 Views
15 Pages

17 November 2022

In the face of increasingly severe climate change and its destructive effects, how to effectively reduce carbon dioxide emissions has become a challenging task. Developing a digital economy provides opportunities for countries to reduce pollution and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,797 Views
23 Pages

24 August 2023

Carbon emissions have become a global issue of increasing concern due to their detrimental impact on the environment. Efforts to combat rising emissions have been taken globally. Despite China’s commitment to globalization, policymakers have fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,584 Views
25 Pages

Within the “dual carbon” framework, sustainable agriculture is pivotal for climate change mitigation and long-term agricultural health. To explore the environmental effects of agricultural trade, this study assesses the carbon emissions f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,643 Views
18 Pages

30 May 2022

This paper focuses on the optimal strategic choice of carbon trading and carbon reduction technology investment under the cap-and-trade system. We consider a carbon-dependent production enterprise that trades carbon emission rights or invests in carb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,808 Views
21 Pages

27 October 2022

Green hydrogen has become the key to social low-carbon transformation and is fully linked to zero carbon emissions. The carbon emissions trading market is a policy tool used to control carbon emissions using a market-oriented mechanism. Building a mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,584 Views
18 Pages

9 November 2023

To meet the demand for constructing a market mechanism that adapts to the integrated energy system and promotes market-oriented reforms in the energy sector, in-depth research on integrated energy trading strategies is required. This study focused on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,177 Views
26 Pages

To investigate how legal constraints on the recycling rate of used products and carbon trading mechanisms affect the profits and other decisions of supply chain system members, this paper develops and solves a two-cycle game model in which the manufa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,803 Views
17 Pages

28 March 2024

Based on the panel data of China’s listed electric power enterprises, this paper adopts the differences-in-differences model to empirically analyze the pilot policy of carbon emissions trading’s impact on the total factor productivity of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,598 Views
19 Pages

China’s carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) is an institutional arrangement that China intends to explore as a means of energy conservation and emission reduction. It is the core of China’s goal of achieving carbon peaking and carbon ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
659 Views
18 Pages

3 April 2025

From an ecological protection perspective, clarifying the spatial and temporal transfer characteristics of embodied carbon in water transport trade among BRICS countries and its driving mechanisms is of great significance for the precise formulation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,527 Views
25 Pages

The Impact of Carbon Emissions Trading Pilot Policy on Industrial Structure Upgrading

  • Zhaoyang Zhao,
  • Shuning Zhou,
  • Siying Wang,
  • Chong Ye and
  • Tuolei Wu

30 August 2022

Using the carbon emissions trading pilot policy implemented since 2011 as a quasi-natural experiment, this paper constructs a multi-period DID model based on panel data of 280 prefecture-level cities from 2006–2019 to explore the impact of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,595 Views
12 Pages

9 March 2019

The negative effects of global warming are becoming more and more serious. The fundamental way to prevent global warming is by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Achieving this has become a key concern for all countries. The logarithmic mean divisia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
647 Views
23 Pages

17 July 2025

To reduce carbon emission levels and improve the low-carbon performance and economic efficiency of Integrated Energy Systems (IESs), this paper introduces oxy-fuel combustion technology to transform traditional units and proposes a low-carbon economi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
605 Views
21 Pages

19 October 2025

Carbon emission trading and green certificate trading mechanisms constitute the cornerstone of low-carbon transitions in integrated energy systems (IESs). However, independent operation of these mechanisms creates coordination barriers that limit the...

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