Moving Forward to the Paris Agreement Warming Targets
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 October 2023) | Viewed by 212
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy system analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
By beginning of 2022, there were more than 130 countries committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, or before 2060. This gave a significant move to realize the objective of UNFCCC after decades of talk on mitigation. Based on the IEA’s assessment by beginning of 2022, it is hopeful that warming of 1.8 ℃ will be achieved by 2100, which means that part of the Paris Agreement targets would be reached. Therefore, there is a strong need to research society in a way that will provide more detailed analyses of the energy and economic transition toward to the warming targets and will implement the actions to achieve these commitments that countries have made. Recently, the rapid development of renewable energy and electric vehicles, together with a large amount of R&D investment on innovative zero-carbon technologies, could present a bright future for the transition. Even though there are already many studies on the energy and economic transitions, together with policies and actions, they are not ready to make new moves with respect to carbon neutrality. The commitment to carbon neutrality could bring about significant changes in policies and actions, sector measures, technology development and investment, and international collaboration. The transition of energy and economy will also affect industry reallocation and regional geo-politics, which need to be investigated by researchers. This Special Issue invites research papers on policy road map assessment, zero-carbon technology development, international collaboration, the implementation on Article 6 of the PA, and stock-taking of related measures, to support the near-term decision making on implementing these commitments. It is expected that papers from this Special Issue will contribute to near-term policies and action regimes, international collaborations, and the implementation of the PA’s articles.
Dr. Kejun Jiang
Prof. Dr. Yifei Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon neutrality
- policies and actions
- GHG mitigation
- zero carbon technologies
- international collaboration
- Paris Agreement
