Notices & Calls

Special Issue Background

Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities have made global warming increasingly severe, while extreme weather events have become more frequent and intense. Against this backdrop, more countries are exploring ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Supported by advanced technology, practical experience, and management approaches, developed countries have taken the lead in building accurate emissions accounting systems and advanced low-carbon technologies. They have also explored carbon neutrality pathways suited to their national conditions and have begun to achieve sustained declines in greenhouse gas emissions. By contrast, greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries are still rising significantly. Since 2000, carbon emissions from developing countries have exceeded those of developed countries, gradually becoming a key factor affecting whether the global 1.5 degree target can be achieved on schedule.

Although many studies have examined major emitting developing countries such as China and India, developing countries with currently low emissions but high potential for emissions growth have so far received limited attention. This gap is reflected in the lack of detailed and accurate national and local emissions accounts to guide scientific mitigation measures, limited understanding of emissions patterns and their underlying drivers, delayed development and strategic deployment of new energy, slow progress in low-carbon and negative-emissions technologies, insufficient emerging financial instruments to support energy transition, and limited localized research on low-carbon experience from developed countries.

In response, the CEADs team is launching the special issue Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Neutrality in Developing Countries in Applied Energy and Advances in Applied Energy. The special issue will support frontier discussions on precise greenhouse gas emissions accounting systems and low-carbon pathway planning, providing a platform for developing countries seeking net-zero emissions. Through this special issue, we hope to help developing countries clarify low-carbon development pathways and contribute to the global zero-carbon goal.

Journal Introduction

Applied Energy, founded in 1975, is a leading international academic journal in the energy field and is ranked as a CAS Q1 Top journal. It has an Impact Factor of 11.446 and a CiteScore of 20.4. Its highly cited papers rank fourth among global engineering journals in ESI, and the journal ranks 50th among global academic journals in Google Scholar Metrics. The journal aims to provide a platform for exchange, sharing, and collaboration in clean energy conversion technologies, optimization of energy processes and systems, energy efficiency, smart energy, reduction of environmental pollutants and greenhouse gases, interdisciplinary integration of energy with other fields, and sustainable energy development.

Advances in Applied Energy is the Open Access sister journal of Applied Energy and was officially launched in 2021. The journal is committed to publishing top research in applied energy and providing researchers with a fast and authoritative platform for academic exchange and publication.

Guest Editors

Dr. Yuli Shan

Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham, a Highly Cited Researcher, and an author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. His research focuses on multiscale greenhouse gas accounting, carbon neutrality pathways, and sustainable development.

Dr. Rui Xue

Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University, Executive Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance, and Associate Editor for the Academy of Management annual meeting. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary topics including environmental finance, corporate sustainability, and climate finance.

Professor Shobhakar Dhakal

Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Asian Institute of Technology and Professor in the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Change. He served as a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports. His research focuses on low-carbon and climate-resilient cities, energy policy, and energy-economy modeling.

Professor Steven J. Davis

Professor of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine, a Highly Cited Researcher, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. His research focuses on coupled human and natural systems and sustainability analysis, including energy technology and policy, international trade and environmental pollution and resource use, and complex interactions among energy systems, agriculture, climate change, and the global ecosystem.

Professor Jun Bi

Professor at Nanjing University, Changjiang Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, leader of a National Natural Science Foundation of China Innovative Research Group, and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse at Nanjing University. His research focuses on environmental risk analysis, environmental policy, global environmental change, environmental health, and environmental big data.

Submission Details

Topics of the special issue include, but are not limited to:

• Multiscale carbon emissions accounting, characteristics, and driver analysis for developing countries

• Pathways toward carbon peaking and carbon neutrality in developing countries and analysis of potential socioeconomic issues

• Clean utilization of fossil fuels and renewable energy development

• Applicability of negative-emissions technologies in developing countries

• Design and application of innovative financial instruments supporting low-carbon energy transition

• Lessons from carbon reduction pathways in developed countries for developing countries

Submission dates and important milestones:

Submission system opens: January 1, 2023

Submission deadline: September 30, 2023

Submission method:

Please submit through the official submission system of Applied Energy or Advances in Applied Energy and select VSI: Em Account.

Applied Energy -

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Authors may choose to submit to either Applied Energy or Advances in Applied Energy. Articles submitted to Advances in Applied Energy will not require Open Access publication fees after acceptance.

For more information, please visit:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/applied-energy/about/call-for-papers

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/advances-in-applied-energy/about/call-for-papers