Carbon Neutrality and Green Development

Dear Colleagues,

The pursuit of carbon neutrality is poised to profoundly influence the sustainable development trajectories of economies and industries worldwide, spanning both developed and developing nations. Over the next three decades, a plethora of issues will demand rigorous examination and deliberation, offering insights valuable to policymakers and investors alike. This Special Issue seeks to serve as a platform for global scholars to exchange perspectives on this imperative, aiming to drive contributions toward fostering sustainable development on a global scale.

The call for papers covers various topics that include, but are not limited to, green economic growth, carbon finance, energy finance, climate finance, green finance, green bonds, and environmental finance. Other areas of interest include, among others:

• The impact of carbon neutrality goals on long-term and short-term economic growth;
• The impact of carbon neutrality goals on the cost of economic transformation;
• The optimization and policy simulation of urban energy structures towards carbon neutrality goals;
• The impact of green technological innovation on energy intensity;
• Carbon information disclosure standards;
• The impact of carbon information disclosure on corporate financing;
• The impact of carbon information disclosure on corporate performance;
• The quality of carbon information disclosure;
• Urban construction and carbon neutrality;
• Regional economies and carbon neutrality;
• Urban economies and carbon neutrality;
• Low-carbon buildings and carbon neutrality;
• The impact of low-carbon or zero-carbon materials and the circular economy on achieving carbon neutrality;
• Artificial intelligence and carbon neutrality;
• Bitcoin and carbon neutrality;
• The digital economy and carbon neutrality.

Prof. Dr. Shihong Zeng
Dr. Qiao Peng
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• carbon neutrality goals
• green development
• carbon finance
• economic transformation
• energy structure
• carbon information disclosure