CEMF: Economics and policy analysis of carbon neutrality
1.Background
Statistics from UNFCCC shows that more than 120 countries or regions worldwide have mentioned carbon neutrality, climate neutrality, net zero emissions or net zero carbon emissions in relevant documents, among which 29 (including 27 EU countries) have provided official commitments through formal channels, covering more than 50% of global carbon emissions. How to achieve carbon neutrality is a major issue for the whole society today, by which conditions and supports for the global realization of the 2 °C and 1.5 °C goals can be strongly reinforced. Researchers and scholars need to provide a scientific basis for policymakers to formulate effective and feasible plans to reduce emissions.
Most of aforementioned economies with commitments propose to achieve carbon neutrality or net zero around the middle of the century. Achieving the goals will produce extensive, important and sustained benefits, including reducing air pollution, improving health and safety, facilitating long-term development in the field of new technologies, promoting environmental protection, and making contributions to global climate change governance. There are, however, also full of challenges on way toward carbon neutrality, it is therefore important to act as early as possible, where the following strategies, including sustainable energy consumption, electricity decarbonization, electrification, low-carbon fuel conversion, the use of negative emission technologies, etc., play an important role.
National commitments to achieving carbon neutrality or net zero are of extraordinary significance. It is not only one of main climate tasks for the country to clearly propose a long-term decarbonization target, but also another important milestone in participating global climate change governance of strengthening the warm-limiting goal. For any country, achieving a zero-carbon goal by the middle of the century is a huge challenge. However, this process is the inevitable direction of history. Economic decarbonization is not only a necessary way to reduce the risk of global climate change, but also to improve health, enhance safety, promote technology, develop the economy, and improve national competition in various fields.
An increasing number of evidence and studies show that tackling climate change has reached the point of urgency, and the whole world will jointly face the arduous responsibilities and major challenges of energy conservation and emission reduction. The roles of large emitters represented by China, the US, India and the EU in the global emission reduction cause are pivotal and irreplaceable, which can bring opportunities for independent innovation and industrial upgrading to effectively boost economic competitiveness. The health, quality of life and general well-being of the country are closely related to the climate and environment. It requires the joint efforts of the whole country, which drives the nation to move forward to the long-term sustainability.
On this basis, we initiate this thematic issue, and the objectives will be on where shall the whole world go for climate change mitigation and adaptation to realize warm-limiting goals; and how typical countries or territories with stated carbon neutrality or net zero commitments would find the economic-feasible pathways.
2.Topic
We welcome both theoretical and empirical research include (but not limited to) topics as follows:
Roles of potential technology options: hydrogen, BECCS and DAC etc
Resource constraints, feasibility analyses and key policy options
Economic and behavioural dynamics of carbon neutrality
The impacts of carbon neutrality on economic inequality and poverty
Clean investment: Climate policy incentives and the long-run returns
Balance between phasing out fossil-fuelled plants and developing renewables
Co-benefits, and trade-offs between carbon neutrality and other SDGs
Multi-model comparison on feasibility of carbon neutrality
3.Submission
The SI has been open for submissions. Please choose article type: VSI: Carbon Neutrality, all the manuscripts should be submitted to the journal of Environmental Impact Assessment Review (EIA R) via
https://www.editorialmanager.com/eir/default1.aspx
Important dates
Deadline for manuscript submissions:
Dec. 31, 2022
Final acceptance:
Nov. 30, 2023
4.Guest Editors
Hongbo Duan, PhD., & Prof.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
hbduan@ucas.ac.cn
Jiali Zheng, PhD., & Assoc. Prof.
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
zhengjiali@amss.ac.cn
Ji Gao, PhD.
Environmental Defense Fund (Beijing), China
Gaoji_123@163.com
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