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Special Issue "Green Transition Paths under the Carbon-Neutral Targets: Policy Design, Digital Governance, and Technological Progress"
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/green_transition_paths_under_the_carbonneutral_targets#editors
截止如期：2022年9月30日
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is already affecting the entire world. In order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius—a threshold that the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) suggests is safe—carbon neutrality by mid-21st century is essential. Under this backdrop, main economies take actions. In December 2019, the European Commission presented the European Green Deal, its flagship plan that aims to make Europe carbon neutral by 2050. At the end of September 2020, China pledged to peak its carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060. This was followed by announcements by Japan, South Korea, Canada, and the United States that aimed at being carbon neutral by 2050. For all countries, achieving carbon neutrality means that the economy must undergo all-round changes from industries to industrial chains and move away from a resource-dependent concept and development model of the industrial era to technology-dependent sustainable development.
Carbon mitigation policies such as green finance are important and play essential roles. The development of green industries requires a large amount of capital input, which must rely on financial means to guide the market to increase investment. However, a large “green finance gap” exists in countries, and green financial systems always require optimization. Thus, it is necessary to encourage more social capital to be invested in green industries and promote technological progress to meet emission reduction commitments. The impact of digitization on the environment is uncertain. Digitalization helps to achieve sustainable development on one side through online resource-sharing and can optimize energy networks; however, on the other side, the digital industry is energy intensive and is a main emitter itself. In this manner, the questions of how to estimate its impact on the environment and how to shape its role in carbon mitigation are key issues that deserve more attention.
This Special Issue will also address the latest advances in environmentally friendly bioprocess technologies, including bioenergy and bioproducts from agricultural and food waste, fermentation technology development, bioprocess optimization and scale-up, and modeling. We are particularly interested in receiving manuscripts that integrate theoretical and engineering studies. In addition to proof-of-concept through early-stage research, the economic feasibility of a sustainable technology is one of the key perspectives when transitioning towards commercialization and entrepreneurship. Therefore, systematic design, demonstration, and techno-economic analysis are other highlights of this Special Issue.
We are excited to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue with your valuable research observations and assessment. The aim of this Special Issue is to serve as a platform for collating updates on green transition paths under carbon-neutral targets. We deem such information essentially important, which could revolutionize the green industry and optimize socio-economic structures. We propose submitting manuscripts related but not limited to the following themes:
New Energy Vehicles (NEVs) and renewable energy innovation;
Marine resources development and utilization;
Sustainability evaluation based on Planetary Boundary (BP) and Doughnut Economics;
Digitalization effects on green transition;
Green finance and climate finance;
Carbon emissions trading policies;
Sustainable biotechnology innovation;
Economic feasibility of production systems.
Dr. Qinglong Shao
Dr. Ke Wang
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