Urban carbon emissions account for 75% of the total social emissions and are a key area for achieving the country’s “dual carbon” goals. This study takes the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City as a case, constructs a multi-dimensional...
In the context of China’s dual carbon target, Beijing, as the capital of China, should play an exemplary role in carbon emission reduction. On the premise of optimizing high-emission sectors such as coal and industry, Beijing is still a certain dista...
This paper establishes a multi-objective optimization model based on an improved NSGA-II algorithm, aiming to study the carbon reduction technology path of specific enterprises in the steel industry under the background of China’s dual-carbon g...
The Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region serves as a pivotal engine for China’s economic development and a gathering area for energy consumption and carbon emissions. Its early achievement of carbon peak is of great significance for p...
The successful implementation of the national carbon emissions reduction work necessitates the collaboration of various regions. Carbon emission reduction strategies need to be adjusted according to local circumstances due to the differences in regio...
Prefabricated buildings, characterized by factory production, on-site assembly, and efficient and refined management, enhance construction efficiency, reduce building time, and promote material reuse and recycling. The energy consumption (and carbon...
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...
This review focuses on the energy structure of iron and steel production and a feasible development path for carbon reduction. The process path and feasible development direction of carbon emission reduction in the iron and steel industry have been a...
Addressing global climate change and China’s dual-carbon goals, advancing near-zero-carbon substations is imperative. However, existing studies often isolate carbon accounting, economic evaluation, and market mechanisms, particularly lacking an...
Based on the total carbon emission data of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2000 to 2020, this paper used non-parametric kernel density estimation and traditional and spatial Markov probability transfer matrix methods to explore the temporal and...
This study examines governance path selection and emission reduction in e-commerce supply chains under a hybrid carbon-pricing mechanism. A tripartite evolutionary game is developed in which the government chooses Collaborative or Direct Governance,...
In recent years, carbon emission reduction in the shipping sector has increasingly garnered scholarly attention. This study delves into the pathways for carbon emission reduction in shipping across the Yangtze River, emphasizing fuel alternatives. It...
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The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is an essential part of China’s goal of reducing its national carbon emissions. Focusing on economic and social development, the development of science and technology, carbon sinks, energy consumption, and...
Avoiding irreversible climate change as effectively as possible is one of the most pressing challenges of society. Carbon pricing that is uniformly valid on a global and cross-sectoral basis represents a cost-efficient policy tool to meet this challe...
With the changes in the spatial structure of China’s economic development, urban clusters have become the primary carriers of China’s regional economy and green growth. We used annual data from 2010 to 2021 to study the carbon emission ch...
A decade after the publication of seminal papers on personal carbon trading (PCT), few empirical studies on its implementation exist. Investigating how to design, set up and implement a PCT scheme for a community or country raises several difficultie...
Business parks account for 30% of China’s total carbon emissions. Exploring emissions reduction approaches for business parks is crucial to achieve a net-zero emissions target, as well as for achieving a representative example for all types of...
As a significant source of global carbon emissions, the construction industry (CI) urgently needs to promote green transformation with the help of digital twin (DT) against the backdrop of human–machine collaboration and sustainable development...
Accurate carbon emission estimation across all operational stages of container terminals is essential for advancing low-carbon development in the transportation sector and designing effective emission reduction pathways. This study develops a two-lay...
Utilizing a longitudinal dataset encompassing 30 Chinese provinces and municipalities (with the exception of Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) that spans the years 2011 through to 2021, this study adopts the spatial Durbin model to study the path...
Energy conservation and emission reduction are important ways to cope with global warming. An analysis of energy conservation and emission reduction from the perspective of network infrastructure construction provides an important perspective for the...
As the northernmost megacity in China, the long winters, large population size, and unsustainable transport structure in Harbin determine that the city will produce relatively large carbon emissions. The transportation industry is one of the three gr...
Against the backdrop of global decarbonization in energy-intensive industries, the primary aluminum sector has become a critical field for deep industrial decarbonization due to its high electricity consumption, large share of indirect carbon emissio...
Carbon neutrality attracts worldwide attention due to its significance and urgency. Anthropogenic emission reduction and terrestrial ecosystem carbon sinks are the two main paths to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality. However, in current studies,...
Carbon emissions from the Yangtze River Economic Belt are an important element of China’s carbon emission endeavor, and a study of its emission reduction pathway can provide a reference for the country’s overall management of carbon emiss...
China’s steel industry’s carbon emissions accounted for more than 60% of global carbon emissions, approximately 15% in China in 2020. China’s steel industry accounted for approximately 16% of China’s total carbon emissions in...
Understanding the current and future net carbon emission trajectories in “Three-Zone Space” is crucial for China to promote the formation of a low-carbon development pattern in territorial space and realize carbon neutrality. Taking Wuhan...
In order to balance carbon emissions and cost reduction in China’s steel firms, this study proposes a multi-objective optimization model for carbon emission reduction based on life-cycle assessment. The baseline scenario technique was used to f...
Aircraft emissions are the main cause of airport air pollution. One of the keys to achieving airport energy conservation and emission reduction is to optimize aircraft taxiing paths. The traditional optimization method based on the shortest taxi time...
X-ray photoelectron emission spectra of thermally reduced graphene oxide samples and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with various oxidation degrees are presented in this paper. A method for the reconstruction of differential electron inelastic scattering cro...
Last-mile logistics is a critical operational and environmental challenge in urban areas. This paper introduces an intelligent path planning system using the Resistive Grid Path Planning Methodology (RGPPM) to optimize distribution based on energy an...
With the intensification of global climate change, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technology has gradually become an important means to address climate change. As the sole technological option for the low-carbon utilization of fossil...
Background: Transportation has become the second-largest source of global carbon emissions. Promoting low-carbon development by means of public transport and green travel and analyzing the mechanism and path of the carbon emissions reduction effect o...
Clarifying the impact of macro emission reduction measures on the mechanism of agricultural greenhouse gas emission reduction is of great significance in promoting climate change governance and the construction of a carbon emission reduction policy s...
Logistics, as a significant field for achieving energy-saving and carbon reduction goals, is recognized as a crucial direction for realizing the global “double carbon” objective, while vehicle path optimization is an effective method for...
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...
China is one of the world’s largest energy consumers and carbon emitters, and the situation of carbon emission reduction is serious. This paper forecasts the future trend of China’s carbon emissions by constructing a system dynamics model...
As one of the effective market instruments in carbon emission reduction policy, carbon trading is capable of promoting the smooth implementation of the “dual carbon” goal. Based on the path evolutionary game method of information economic...
Energy conservation, cost, and emission reduction are the research topics of most concern today. The aim of this paper is to reduce the cost and carbon emissions and improve the sustainable development of sheep transportation. Under the typical case...
In order to meet ambitious carbon reduction goals, direct combustion of fossil fuels in homes will need to largely cease. The largest portion of this reduction will likely come from energy efficiency, but efficiency alone will not be sufficient. In t...
As one of the development paths of construction industrialization, prefabricated buildings (PBs) are an important means for China’s construction industry to achieve the “double carbon” goal. To better leverage the energy-saving and...
Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang (GFZ), located on China’s southeast coast, have long been economically active and rapidly growing provinces in China. However, the rising energy consumption in these provinces poses a major challenge to their car...
Climate change makes it necessary to implement precise carbon dioxide reduction measures, and establishing a port carbon dioxide emission inventory has become a key step in port management.However, the establishment of a port carbon emission inventor...
Aiming at the uncertainty in cargo demand in the transportation process, the multimodal transportation path optimization problem is studied from the perspective of a low-carbon economy, and the robust optimization modeling method is introduced. First...
With the rapid expansion of agricultural e-commerce in China, inefficient cloud warehouse consolidation and high environmental costs have hindered the sustainability of supply chains. To address the challenges of low vehicle loading rates and high ca...
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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...
Based on structural equation modeling, the influence paths and group differences in residents’ low-carbon living behaviors and consumption behaviors were explored in six low-carbon pilot cities in China from the perspectives of low-carbon polic...
In the context of the carbon neutrality target, carbon reduction in the daily operation of the transportation system is more important than that in productive activities. There are few travel services that can quantify low-carbon travel, with a lack...
The realization of intelligent transformation is an important path for the industry to move towards low-carbon development. Based on panel data from 30 provinces in China, this study utilizes the intermediate effect model and spatial econometric mode...
Climate change and greenhouse gas emission reduction have become common concerns. Carbon trading systems and low-carbon cost subsidies are important emission reduction measures. Impacts of a combination of the two policies on micro-supply chain emiss...
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