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31 Citations
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8 July 2021

In the context of low-carbon constrained development, in order to avoid the risk brought by climate change, more and more companies choose to disclose carbon information, respond to the national policy of carbon emission reduction and focus on the su...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,602 Views
21 Pages

The Influence of Carbon Management on the Financial Performance of European Companies

  • Yenny Naranjo Tuesta,
  • Cristina Crespo Soler and
  • Vicente Ripoll Feliu

17 June 2020

This document shows the relationship between carbon management and the financial performance of the European Union’s best market capitalization companies. Different measures are used to understand it by adopting a quantitative approach. After a...

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  • Open Access
2,120 Views
24 Pages

27 September 2024

The deep integration of intelligent technology and the manufacturing industry is a crucial driving force for promoting green and low-carbon development, which is a key strategy for achieving sustainable development. Using panel data from 30 provinces...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,447 Views
16 Pages

24 March 2022

As the world’s largest energy consumer, China’s CO2 emissions have significantly risen, owing to its rapid economic growth. Hence, levying a carbon tax has become essential in accelerating China’s carbon neutralization process. This...

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  • Open Access
393 Views
27 Pages

19 December 2025

Under China’s “dual carbon” targets and deepening global climate governance, this paper investigates whether and how corporate green transformation (GTF) improves carbon performance (CP). Using panel data on Chinese A-share listed f...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,936 Views
27 Pages

4 March 2023

At present, to comply with carbon reduction commitments, China has only required energy-intensive enterprises to report their carbon information to regulators, aside from mandatory public disclosures. Although some enterprises have been disclosing th...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,518 Views
27 Pages

17 July 2024

The swift advancement of the industrial economy has depleted resources and degraded the environment, hindering global economic growth. Digitalization provides a novel approach to decrease carbon emissions and enhance the environment. This study utili...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,212 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Carbon Black on Rutting and Fatigue Performance of Asphalt

  • Kunzhi Zhong,
  • Zhi Li,
  • Jianwei Fan,
  • Guangji Xu and
  • Xiaoming Huang

3 May 2021

As an additive to improve the performance of asphalt binder, tire pyrolysis carbon black is gradually being used in road engineering, but the effect of carbon black (CB) with different particle sizes on asphalt modification remains to be further stud...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,507 Views
17 Pages

The Effects of Carbon Emissions and Agency Costs on Firm Performance

  • Muhammad Nurul Houqe,
  • Solomon Opare,
  • Muhammad Kaleem Zahir-ul-Hassan and
  • Kamran Ahmed

Carbon emissions and agency costs can have an impact on firms’ financial performance. However, limited attention has been paid to the combined and gradual effects of these two factors on firms’ performance. We explore the separate and com...

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  • Open Access
335 Views
28 Pages

8 January 2026

Against the backdrop of global climate governance and China’s “dual carbon” goals, carbon emissions trading (CET) has become a core policy instrument for promoting low-carbon transformation. However, it remains unclear whether CET p...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,276 Views
20 Pages

6 February 2024

Companies have been implementing various strategies, such as supply chain reconfiguration and process optimization, striving to find an efficient and effective solution for enhancing carbon performance over the last decade. Although various factors t...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,234 Views
23 Pages

4 July 2019

A low-carbon behaviour performance evaluation index system is designed by using a Delphi method in this study. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is applied to systematically measure the low-carbon behaviour performance of 32 scenic spots in Zhangj...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,590 Views
26 Pages

7 March 2025

In the context of low-carbon transformation, manufacturing enterprises are facing great pressures, and they need to improve their capability in order to successfully respond to these changes and achieve sustainable development. Based on the concept o...

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364 Views
10 Pages

11 December 2025

The escalating demand for high-performance energy storage devices has driven extensive research into flexible electrode materials for supercapacitors. Integrating structured carbon nanomaterials with flexible substrates to construct binder-free elect...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,456 Views
14 Pages

Heating Performance of Cementitious Composites with Carbon-Based Nanomaterials

  • Heeyoung Lee,
  • Sohyeon Park,
  • Donghwi Kim and
  • Wonseok Chung

18 May 2022

Active research has been conducted in recent years on heating construction materials using nanotechnology to solve the problem of black ice, which is often the cause of frequent traffic accidents during winter. To determine the optimal heating constr...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,028 Views
19 Pages

8 May 2024

Cementitious composites are ubiquitous in construction, and more and more research is focused on improving mechanical properties and environmental effects. However, the jury is still out on which material can achieve low-carbon and high-performance c...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,050 Views
21 Pages

3 April 2025

This study examines the Carbon Performance Gap (CPG) and Energy Performance Gap (EPG) of school buildings in Osijek-Baranja County in Croatia. The variance between the predicted energy efficiency of a building, as indicated by the energy performance...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,146 Views
26 Pages

13 May 2025

In recent years, a pressing global challenge has been that increasingly stringent environmental regulations have failed to prevent global climate change. In this context, exploring the synergistic effects of a policy mix approach has emerged as a pro...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,905 Views
17 Pages

How Does a Green Supply Chain Improve Corporate Carbon Performance

  • Qianlingzi Zou,
  • Shuaizhong Ge,
  • Yu Peng,
  • Daqian Shi and
  • Zhifen Tan

12 October 2024

Drawing from A-share listed companies’ data from the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets in China (2013–2022), this paper adopts the differential model to test the impact and mechanism of a green supply chain (GSC) pilot on pilot enterpri...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,940 Views
19 Pages

While there has been a sufficient amount of research and empirical evidence on the factors that influence a company’s decisions to voluntarily disclose carbon information, little research has been done on the carbon disclosure practices of ETS-...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,531 Views
37 Pages

10 June 2025

Against global carbon neutrality goals and China’s “dual carbon” strategy, this study examines how green technology innovation shapes corporate carbon performance through a dual-path mechanism—improving enterprises’ reso...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,665 Views
20 Pages

6 April 2023

With the development of a low-carbon economy, corporate carbon emission performance has become an important premise for green financing. Compared with high-carbon industries, companies in low-carbon industries have their own carbon advantages and rec...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,779 Views
24 Pages

6 March 2024

This paper uses the carbon emission trading policy as a quasi-natural experiment to comprehensively investigate its impact on the financial and market performance of firms. The study uses data from A-share listed companies for the period from 2009 to...

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  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,025 Views
10 Pages

Activated Carbon/MnO2 Composites as Electrode for High Performance Supercapacitors

  • Jang Rak Choi,
  • Ji Won Lee,
  • Guijun Yang,
  • Young-Jung Heo and
  • Soo-Jin Park

20 February 2020

Activated carbon (AC) was synthesized with various weight ratios of manganese dioxide (MO) through a simple hydrothermal approach. The electrochemical performance of the synthesized activated carbon/MnO2 composites was investigated. The effect of the...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,683 Views
21 Pages

12 October 2022

A general consensus has been reached among many countries that low-carbon development is important for the protection of the environment and the mitigation of climate change. In line with the attitude of a responsible country, China urges enterprises...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,296 Views
18 Pages

The “New Normal” of Chinese economy represents the importance of economic performance. To analyze the provincial performance of the low-carbon economy in China, this paper constructed a three-stage dynamic Malmquist model considering the evolutionary...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,775 Views
13 Pages

30 September 2023

The main goal of this study is to investigate the doping effects of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene on the needle-punched carbon/carbon (C/C) composites that are prepared by liquid-phase impregnation. In order to achieve, for the C/C composites,...

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  • Open Access
1,484 Views
29 Pages

Digitalization and Supply Chain Carbon Performance: The Role of Focal Firms

  • Zhenling Chen,
  • Jiaxi Wu,
  • Xiaoting Yang and
  • Guohua Ni

This study explores how digitalization by focal firms affects carbon performance across the entire supply chain, advancing the literature by adopting a holistic supply chain perspective rather than a single-firm lens. We further draw on dynamic capab...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,898 Views
20 Pages

9 October 2023

This paper investigated the effects of carbon emissions and board gender diversity on firm performance using quantile regression. This approach explores the heterogeneity of the effect of carbon emissions on the performance of firms and overcomes som...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,391 Views
10 Pages

The Oxygen Reduction Performance of Pt Supported on the Hybrid of Porous Carbon Nanofibers and Carbon Black

  • Tongyu Zhou,
  • Jingjing Zhang,
  • Shenglin Yang,
  • Junhong Jin,
  • Biao Wang and
  • Guang Li

29 June 2022

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) represent an outstanding clean energy alternative for next-generation power sources. The PEMFC’s performance is mainly determined by the sluggish oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) that occurs in its ca...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,010 Views
18 Pages

This study introduces the concept of carbon proactivity and considers not only the quantity of emissions but also corporate carbon-reduction efforts and actions to explore the relationship between carbon proactivity, the emissions trading scheme (ETS...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,593 Views
25 Pages

31 January 2025

The coordinated development of digitalization and greening is essential for economic transformation and upgrading, especially given the pressing global carbon emission challenges. China’s commitment to achieving “dual carbon” goals...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,720 Views
21 Pages

The objective of this research is to examine the relationship between carbon management strategies in corporations and their impact on financial performance. We employ a systematic literature review to analyze 223 articles retrieved from reputable jo...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,088 Views
19 Pages

Carbon Emission and Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Management Environmental Training

  • Saleh F. A. Khatib,
  • Iyad H. M. Ismail,
  • Naeem Salameh,
  • Alhamzah F. Abbas,
  • Ayman Hassan Bazhair and
  • Hamid Ghazi H Sulimany

3 July 2023

This study investigated the role of Carbon disclosure on firm performance while considering the moderating role of management environmental training as it enhances the mechanisms of governance and monitoring practices. The data was collected from ele...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,728 Views
14 Pages

11 September 2023

Silicon as an electrode material in the lithium-ion battery application scenario has been hindered by its significant volumetric expansion and intricate synthesis processes. In this research, we have successfully synthesized Si@C/carbon nanotubes/car...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,946 Views
23 Pages

24 May 2024

As global warming becomes increasingly severe, reducing carbon emissions and promoting low-carbon development has become an international consensus. Against this backdrop, evaluating regional carbon performance helps better understand the carbon emis...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,189 Views
21 Pages

20 June 2023

Mixed ownership reform has contributed greatly to China’s economic development; however, there is little literature on how mixed ownership reform affects carbon performance in the context of environmentally sustainable development. Therefore, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,479 Views
12 Pages

Firm-Level Carbon Productivity, Home Country Environmental Performance, and Firm Performance in the Exporting Meat Industry

  • Valeska V. Geldres-Weiss,
  • Pedro E. Guerrero-Stuardo,
  • Svetla Marinova,
  • Vesnia Ortiz-Cea and
  • Roberto Reveco

11 June 2025

This study explores the relationship between firm-level carbon productivity (CRP), home country environmental performance (HCEP), and firm performance—both financial and international—in the global meat exporting industry. While prior res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,375 Views
10 Pages

A Performance Evaluation Study of Human Resources in Low-Carbon Logistics Enterprises

  • Qunzhen Qu,
  • Wenjing Wang,
  • Mengxue Tang,
  • Youhu Lu,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai,
  • Jiangtao Wang,
  • Guodong Li and
  • Chih-Lang Yu

17 April 2017

With China’s rapid economic development, restructuring the economy will require a development model based on high-to-low carbon transition. The development of logistics enterprises has its own characteristics associated with the trend of low carbon....

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,835 Views
11 Pages

27 September 2019

Unidirectional carbon fiber composite material is one of the most common types of composites employed in vehicles, and its bending performance plays an important role in crash safety, especially in side pole impact. This study aimed to redesign one o...

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  • Open Access
87 Citations
12,722 Views
22 Pages

10 July 2018

The impact of carbon emissions on corporate financial performance within the African corporate setting has remained open and inconclusive, owing primarily to the unavailability of data. However, this paper examines the effect of carbon emissions (Sco...

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  • Open Access
390 Views
19 Pages

1 December 2025

This study introduces a decision-oriented framework integrating fresh-state rheology, standardized post-cracking performance, and cradle-to-gate embodied carbon for steel-fiber-reinforced concretes incorporating recycled and commercial fibers. The mo...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,800 Views
26 Pages

13 January 2025

New quality productivity (NQP) has the possibility to enhance carbon emission performance which will fortify the groundwork for long-term economic expansion even further. The research examines the panel data of 30 provinces spanning the years 2012 to...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,055 Views
19 Pages

22 September 2021

Using a cross-country dataset covering 9265 observations on 1785 firms representing 53 countries over the period 2004–2019, this study investigates the relation between carbon emissions reduction and corporate financial performance (CFP). We perform...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,414 Views
10 Pages

Investigation on the Performance Improvement of Polyacrylonitrile-Derived Flexible Electrospun Carbon Nanofiber Mats

  • Xin He,
  • Qiuming Lan,
  • Sirou Zhao,
  • Junyan Liu,
  • Chi Zhang,
  • Bohua Chen,
  • Mei Chen and
  • Mingxia Song

5 September 2019

Polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-derived carbon nanofiber mats were fabricated using electrospinning and further carbonization. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and electrochemical characterization were used to investigate the effec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,419 Views
23 Pages

13 May 2024

Climate change threatens human survival and development. Cities, as the main gathering places for human production and life, serve as the focal points for the implementation of the policies related to energy efficiency, energy transition, and environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,454 Views
13 Pages

23 January 2019

By integrating an Absorption Refrigerator (AR), a new hybrid system model is established to reuse the waste heat from a Molten Carbonate Direct Carbon Fuel Cell (MCDCFC) for additional cooling production. Various irreversible losses in each element o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,738 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2023

The continuous proliferation of the global digital wave has increased the contribution of firms’ digital transformation as a vital force propelling economic growth and sustainable development, highlighting the importance of digital transformati...

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  • Open Access
1,132 Views
17 Pages

Optimizing Carbon Footprint and Strength in High-Performance Concrete Through Data-Driven Modeling

  • Saloua Helali,
  • Shadiah Albalawi,
  • Maer Alanazi,
  • Bashayr Alanazi and
  • Nizar Bel Hadj Ali

29 August 2025

High-performance concrete (HPC) is an essential construction material used for modern buildings and infrastructure assets, recognized for its exceptional strength, durability, and performance under harsh situations. Nonetheless, the HPC production pr...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,508 Views
18 Pages

Vat Photopolymerization of Ceramic Parts: Effects of Carbon Fiber Additives on Microstructure and Mechanical Performance

  • Lu Wang,
  • Hailong Wu,
  • Anfu Guo,
  • Dekun Kong,
  • Zhengyu Zhao,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Lvfa Yin,
  • Guojun Xia,
  • Xiaofei Su and
  • Diangang Wang
  • + 1 author

26 June 2024

Vat photopolymerization (VPP), as an additive manufacturing (AM) technology, can conveniently produce ceramic parts with high resolution and excellent surface quality. However, due to the inherent brittleness and low toughness of ceramic materials, m...

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