Greening Behavior towards Carbon Neutrality
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 2304
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Interests: environmental economics; energy economics; productivity and efficiency analysis
Interests: environmental regulation; technological innovation; environmental governance; environmental pollution; accounting for greenhouse gas emissions; water resource economics
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Dear Colleagues,
Carbon neutrality means net-zero carbon, indicating that any actions that lead to emissions should be accompanied by other actions that confidently reduce—or offset—emissions. It is the consensus of governments around the world that there is an urgent need to respond to climate change and achieve carbon neutrality. As a comprehensive strategy for sustainable development and green transition, greening behaviour and voluntary emission-reduction schemes are important measures to deal with climate change and maintain sustainable development. Households (or individuals), firms, and the public make up the main body of economic activities, and they are also the decisive force that affects sustainable development. Only by effective management of the green behavior of households (or individuals), firms, and the public can we truly realize the green low-carbon development of the economy. There is a need to establish reasonable constraints and standard mechanisms for the behavior of households (or individuals), firms, and the public, open the national carbon-emissions trading market, and how to effectively guide the greening behavior of households (or individuals), firms, and the public, then establish corresponding dynamic response mechanisms, which are related to whether the future of the world can effectively achieve the sustainable development goals. It is necessary to explore the greening behaviour of households (or individuals), firms, and the public based on the perspective of the complexity of human behavior.
Thus, this Special Issue aims to discuss the greening behavior towards carbon neutrality, which involves models, theories, simulations, empirical studies, and related research on greening behavior and carbon neutrality. We cordially invite authors to contribute either original research articles or review articles dealing with a broad range of topics, including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- The greening behaviour of households (or individuals), firms, and the public towards carbon neutrality;
- Methods of measuring greening behaviour of households (or individuals), firms, and the public;
- Voluntary emission-reduction scheme towards carbon neutrality;
- Potential environmental effects of a voluntary emission-reduction scheme;
- Green low-carbon transition towards carbon neutrality;
- Cost–benefit analysis of green behaviour;
- Other environmental policies towards carbon neutrality.
Dr. Yantuan Yu
Dr. Zhangqi Zhong
Dr. Yanmin Shao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- the greening behaviour of households (or individuals), firms, and the public towards carbon neutrality
- methods of measuring greening behaviour of households (or individuals), firms, and the public
- voluntary emission-reduction scheme towards carbon neutrality
- potential environmental effects of a voluntary emission-reduction scheme
- green low-carbon transition towards carbon neutrality
- cost–benefit analysis of green behaviour
- other environmental policies towards carbon neutrality
