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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,528 Views
18 Pages

Under environmental governance constraints, in order to explore the quantitative contribution of green innovation efficiency to carbon peak and carbon neutralization at the urban level, this paper uses the unexpected Super-SBM model to measure the gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,288 Views
9 Pages

22 September 2022

In recent years, China has proposed the goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, which will significantly alter its existing coal-based energy mix. Since coal is China’s primary source of energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,421 Views
15 Pages

9 December 2022

On 22 September 2020, General Secretary Xi made a solemn commitment to the international community at the general debate of the seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and he announce...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,775 Views
12 Pages

Climate Change, Carbon Peaks, and Carbon Neutralization: A Bibliometric Study from 2006 to 2023

  • Qiong Chen,
  • Hongyu Zhang,
  • Yui-Yip Lau,
  • Tianni Wang,
  • Wen Wang and
  • Guangsheng Zhang

24 March 2023

Climate change poses a threat to the survival of the human race. Increased interest in climate change, carbon peaks, and carbon neutralization and rising recognition of the challenges inherent to highlighting this issue provides the opportunity to ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,660 Views
20 Pages

31 July 2024

Achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality is an intrinsic requirement for sustainable development. The industrial structure primarily characterized by the chemical and energy industries poses a hindrance to the attainment of carbon peaking and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
4,248 Views
24 Pages

22 April 2022

Transportation carbon emission reduction has become an important driving point for China to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Based on the three-dimensional grey correlation analysis model, taking the five factors affecting transportation ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,823 Views
12 Pages

In order to actively fulfill its international treaty obligations, China has established the goal of peaking CO2 emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. Since 2018, when ecological civilization was written into the Constitution, th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
80 Citations
10,034 Views
31 Pages

Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality in the Building Sector: A Bibliometric Review

  • Zhaohui Sun,
  • Zhili Ma,
  • Minda Ma,
  • Weiguang Cai,
  • Xiwang Xiang,
  • Shufan Zhang,
  • Minxia Chen and
  • Liming Chen

26 January 2022

Due to large energy consumption and carbon emissions (ECCE) in the building sector, there is huge potential for carbon emission reduction, and this will strongly influence peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality in the future. To get a better sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,142 Views
27 Pages

14 November 2022

In 2021, under the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality targets of China, Shanghai declared that it would peak carbon emissions by 2025. This would require the formulation of specific and effective implementation paths of low-carbon development. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,506 Views
15 Pages

20 June 2022

The promotion and implementation of carbon neutrality against peaking carbon dioxide emissions urgently need the support of science and technology and the backing provided by a guarantee of rule of law. The proposition, logic, and progression of digi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,500 Views
11 Pages

China regards the development of new energy vehicles (NEVs) as an important breakthrough to achieve the periodic goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. After decades of development, China’s NEVs industry has made significant progress, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,520 Views
16 Pages

With the commitment to peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, the text analysis of policies related to peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality has become a hot research topic in China. However, current domestic...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,333 Views
10 Pages

21 October 2022

In the context of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality (“double carbon”), it is urgent to clarify the effect of marine spatial planning (MSP) on carbon sink increases and emission reductions, since such planning acts as a spatial governan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,235 Views
20 Pages

11 March 2022

Since China’s reform and opening up, especially after its accession to the World Trade Organization, its foreign trade has achieved fruitful results. However, at the same time, the extensive foreign trade growth model with high energy consumpti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,749 Views
31 Pages

Owing to the surge in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change is attracting increasing attention worldwide. As the world’s largest carbon emitter, the achievement of emission peak and carbon neutrality by China is seen as a milestone in the gl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,815 Views
16 Pages

12 November 2023

Under the guidance of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”, “ecological priority” and “green development” have become the popular consensus, and the financial regulatory level continuously guides financial instit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,914 Views
11 Pages

25 July 2024

Coalbed methane is released externally due to coal mining activities. Given its low concentration, which renders utilization challenging, China annually vents approximately 285 billion cubic meters of coalbed methane into the atmosphere, leading to s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
744 Views
16 Pages

17 October 2025

With the continuous increase in the number of university students and the improvement of living standards, energy waste in universities has become a significant challenge, hindering progress toward Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality (CPCN) goals. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,747 Views
21 Pages

24 September 2022

With concerns about global warming and energy security, people are reducing fossil fuel use and turning to clean energy technologies. Mineral resources are used as materials for various energy technologies, and with the development of clean energy te...

  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,844 Views
19 Pages

11 August 2023

With the proposal of the goal of “carbon peak, carbon neutrality”, the concept of environmental protection has become increasingly popular. To explore the characteristics and influencing factors of consumers’ green consumption behav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,781 Views
18 Pages

22 March 2022

Starting from the definition of traditional thermal power generation enterprises, this paper defines thermal power enterprises that are committed to achieving the carbon peak and neutrality by developing new energy sources as new type thermal power e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,070 Views
16 Pages

9 November 2022

Carbon sinks are an important way to achieve carbon neutrality. In this study, carbon emissions in each year from 2019 to 2060 were predicted by constructing the LEAP (Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System)-China model. The ecosystem carbon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,981 Views
18 Pages

To mitigate global warming, China, the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, has set the goals of achieving carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, and financial measures could play an important role. To avoid unnecessary costs, Ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,619 Views
20 Pages

In recent years, with the increase in global carbon dioxide content, the negative impact of the greenhouse effect has become increasingly significant. Moreover, countries have gradually recognized the importance and urgency of carbon emission (CE) re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,451 Views
18 Pages

To answer to global climate change, promote climate governance and map out a grand blueprint for sustainable development, carbon neutrality has become the target and vision of all countries. Green finance is a means to coordinate economic development...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,125 Views
26 Pages

27 March 2023

In 2020, during the 75th United Nations General Assembly, China proposed the goal of “achieving a carbon peak by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060”. The Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region is the largest carbon emission me...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,092 Views
15 Pages

20 April 2024

In 2023, China’s crude steel production amount reached 1.019 billion tons, and the energy consumption of China’s steel industry amount reached 561 million tons of coal. China’s steel industry, with its dominant reliance on coal for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,736 Views
17 Pages

Carbon Neutral Roadmap of Commercial Building Operations by Mid-Century: Lessons from China

  • Shufan Zhang,
  • Xiwang Xiang,
  • Zhili Ma,
  • Minda Ma and
  • Chenchen Zou

28 October 2021

Carbon neutrality has positive impacts on people, nature and the economy, and buildings represent the “last mile” sector in the transition to carbon neutrality. Carbon neutrality is characterized by the decarbonization of operations and maintenance,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
4,654 Views
21 Pages

8 September 2022

The goal of “carbon peak” and “carbon neutrality” is China’s long-term development strategy for low greenhouse gas emissions in the 21st century (hereinafter referred to as the “double carbon” goal), with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,970 Views
19 Pages

Since the Chinese government proclaimed the “double carbon” goal in 2020, carbon emissions reduction has become an important task for the Chinese government. Cities generate more than 60% of carbon emissions. There are many challenges in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,522 Views
18 Pages

The existing literature on the influencing factors of carbon emissions ignores the relationship between financial agglomeration and carbon emissions. Based on the analysis of the emission reduction history of major countries, this paper mainly uses t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,617 Views
17 Pages

13 April 2023

Through in-depth analysis of the background and connotation of carbon peaking and carbon neutral development goals, this paper constructs a comprehensive evaluation system of carbon neutral development goals from five secondary indicators of innovati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,813 Views
13 Pages

25 August 2022

The increase of carbon emissions accelerates global warming and causes environmental problems. Therefore, research on emission peak and carbon neutrality is of broad interest. In this paper, based on the relationships among carbon emissions, carbon a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,045 Views
22 Pages

Analyzing and Predicting LUCC and Carbon Storage Changes in Xinjiang’s Arid Ecosystems Under the Carbon Neutrality Goal

  • Jie Song,
  • Xin He,
  • Fei Zhang,
  • Xu Ma,
  • Chi Yung Jim,
  • Brian Alan Johnson and
  • Ngai Weng Chan

27 November 2024

Land use/cover change (LUCC) significantly alters the carbon storage capacity of ecosystems with a profound impact on global climate change. The influence of land use changes on carbon storage capacity and the projection of future carbon stock change...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,896 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
39 Citations
3,550 Views
20 Pages

6 July 2022

The goal of reaching the peak of carbon in the construction industry is urgent. However, the research on the feasibility of realizing this goal and the implementation of relevant policies in China is relatively superficial. In view of the historical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,550 Views
21 Pages

27 September 2024

Gansu Province in China has the characteristics of an underdeveloped economy, low forest carbon sink, and rich non-fossil energy, making it a typical area for research to achieve the “double carbon” target. In this paper, the primary ener...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,294 Views
23 Pages

10 November 2023

Excessive carbon emissions will cause the greenhouse effect and global warming, which is not conducive to environmental protection and sustainable development. In order to realize the goal of “carbon peak and carbon neutrality” as soon as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,305 Views
10 Pages

Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality strategies bring both opportunities and challenges to the development of green buildings. In this context, the development of high-quality green buildings requires a focus on improving carbon reduction effects thr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,271 Views
25 Pages

A New Power System Source-End Low Carbonization Evaluation System Considering Carbon Control Model

  • Gangjun Gong,
  • Ren Qiang,
  • Jiaxuan Yang,
  • Rui Hou,
  • Zeming Lv,
  • Mingfeng Xu,
  • Xuesong Liu and
  • Haixia Yang

1 January 2023

Under the global goal of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”, new power system is facing a new energy development trend of increasing the capacity of new energy and reducing the capacity and quantity of coal power. Furthermore, new pow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,488 Views
17 Pages

24 April 2023

Low-carbon tourism is an important way for the tourism industry to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. In order to promote the development of Guilin as a world-class tourism...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,464 Views
17 Pages

The reduction in carbon emissions in the construction industry plays an important role in the realization of the goal of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, especially in China. Construction enterprises’ personnel’s intentions to reduce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,051 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Carbon Sequestration and Oxygen-Release Potential of Six Mulberry Tree Varieties During Summer

  • Kaixin Zhang,
  • Yujie Yang,
  • Zeyang Zhai,
  • Yao Fang,
  • Meiyu He,
  • Jialing Cheng,
  • Yue Tian,
  • Xu Cao and
  • Li Liu

17 October 2024

Human activities lead to an increase in greenhouse gases in the environment, among which carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most prominent, giving rise to global warming and climate change. Climate change, along with the resulting environmental degra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
565 Views
14 Pages

17 November 2025

The municipal solid waste recycling industry has become a rapidly growing emerging industry. Its carbon emissions account for 1/10 of the urban carbon emissions, which cannot be ignored. It is highly important for cities to achieve the goals of peak...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,364 Views
32 Pages

14 June 2025

As a major contributor to global energy consumption and carbon emissions, the building sector plays a pivotal role in achieving carbon peaking and neutrality targets. This study systematically reviews the evolution of research on building stock energ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,085 Views
33 Pages

29 September 2021

China has clearly put forward the strategic goals of reaching the “Carbon Emission Peak” by 2030, and achieving “Carbon Neutrality” by 2060. To achieve these goals, it is necessary to precisely understand the spatial distribution characteristics of h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,863 Views
18 Pages

The Impact of Land-Use Structure on Carbon Emission in China

  • Hui Zhang,
  • Pengcheng Gu,
  • Genrong Cao,
  • Dongquan He and
  • Bofeng Cai

29 January 2023

Research objectives: This paper discusses how to support the realization of carbon peak and carbon neutrality through the optimization of national spatial structures by establishing a relationship model between land-use structure and carbon emissions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,157 Views
22 Pages

Exploring Inequality: A Multi-Scale Analysis of China’s Consumption Carbon Footprint

  • Feng Xu,
  • Xinqi Zheng,
  • Minrui Zheng,
  • Dongya Liu,
  • Yin Ma,
  • Jizong Peng,
  • Ye Shen,
  • Xu Han and
  • Mengdi Zhang

Carbon emission inequality has become a critical factor constraining the coordinated development of socio-economic systems and the natural environment. This inequality exacerbates the disparity in carbon emissions across regions, hindering efforts to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,747 Views
21 Pages

23 December 2022

The development of digital technology provides new governance methods for achieving the goal of “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality”. Since 2013, the pilot construction of smart cities in China has strengthened the government’s di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
2,809 Views
16 Pages

In a changing climate, ship speed optimization plays an important role in energy conservation and emission reduction. In order to establish a dual-objective optimization model of minimizing ship operating costs and reducing carbon emissions, fuel cos...

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