Reshaping Energy, Environment, and Economy for a Carbon-Neutral and Sustainable Future

Dear Colleagues,

Since most countries have made commitments to becoming carbon neutral around the world in the coming decades, our society is confronted with huge evolution brought by greenhouse-gas emissions reductions in every corner. This evolution exists in areas such as energy structure transitions, integrated environment protection, industry upgrading, and society behaviors changes. This Topic aims to set up a holistic framework to address the major challenges of the carbon-neutral pledge, whilst achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

This Special Issue emphasizes decarbonization transformation processes involved in a transition toward more low-carbon production and societal systems. This topic can have a strong contribution to solving realistic economic, energy, and environmental problems and challenges when pursuing a low-carbon society and mitigating climate change. It can also supplement previous literature on technical, societal, economic, energy, and policy aspects of strategies to improve carbon neutrality and sustainability.

This Special Issue, entitled “Reshaping energy, environment, and economy for a carbon-neutral and sustainable future”, welcomes high-quality works that focus on the development and implementation of systems, ideas, pathways, solutions, strategies, technologies, pilot cases, and exemplars that are relevant to the pursuits of carbon neutrality and sustainable development.

Prof. Dr. Nan Xiang
Prof. Dr. Feng Xu
Dr. Ling Ji
Guest Editors

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