“碳中和”专刊征稿汇总

导 语

“碳中和”毫无疑问是近期气候变化领域最热门的词汇。碳中和是指人类活动造成的二氧化碳排放与人为二氧化碳吸收量在一定时期内达到平衡。

2020年9月22日，在第七十五届联合国大会一般性辩论上，中国提出将提高国家自主贡献力度，采取更加有力的政策和措施，二氧化碳排放力争于2030年前达到峰值，努力争取2060年前实现碳中和。

目标提出后，引起了国内外学者和政策制定者的广泛关注。目前已有近90个国家提出了碳中和、气候中和、净零排放和净零碳排放等不同形式的碳排放平衡目标。这为全球实现2度和1.5度目标创造了条件。

如何实现碳中和？这是当今社会面临的重大问题。学者需要为政策制定者提供科学依据，以制定有效、可行的减排方案。目前，国内外学术期刊纷纷开设专刊，关注这一重要议题。

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《气候变化研究进展》

· 中国科技核心期刊（CJCR）

· 《中国科学引文数据库》（CSCD）核心期刊

· 《中文核心期刊要目总览》第6版之大气科学类核心期刊

专刊介绍

在2020年9月22日第七十五届联合国大会一般性辩论上，习近平主席发表的重要讲话中指出“中国将提高国家自主贡献力度，采取更加有力的政策和措施，二氧化碳排放力争于2030年前达到峰值，努力争取2060年前实现碳中和”。碳中和目标的达成，需要统筹考虑国内社会经济和环境发展的各项目标，结合这些目标去设置一系列关键节点，进而实现有效推进我国的碳排放达峰和去峰的工作。

2035美丽中国是我国达成2060年碳中和目标的关键时间节点。2017年党的十九大报告明确指出：到2035年，生态环境根本好转，美丽中国目标基本实现，到本世纪中叶，把我国建成富强民主文明和谐美丽的社会主义现代化强国。党的十九届五中全会审议通过的《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十四个五年规划和二〇三五年远景目标的建议》也提出，到2035年我国广泛形成绿色生产生活方式，碳排放达峰后稳中有降，生态环境根本好转，美丽中国建设目标基本实现。美丽中国目标为生态文明建设和生态环境保护指明了前进方向、提供了根本遵循。体现了我国在改善国内生态环境、推动生态文明建设、以及构建人类命运共同体方面的大国责任和担当。

从减排和低碳发展的角度来看，2035美丽中国这个关键时间节点，不但承接了2030碳达峰、2030可持续发展目标，还面向2050低排放发展战略目标，以及2060碳中和目标。如何将美丽中国目标更好的协同到碳中和的长期目标中，实现碳中和目标和2035美丽中国目标的有效衔接，这对我国的中长期发展至关重要，同时也面临着巨大的挑战和不确定性。为此，中国能源模型论坛（CEMF）特联合国内外相关机构和专家就2035美丽中国与2060碳中和目标进行探讨和研究。

征稿主题

· 2060碳中和目标的实现路径、及多目标协同下的关键节点分析

· 2035美丽中国目标与2060碳中和目标的协同效应和衔接研究

· 碳中和目标下的2035美丽中国低碳发展路径研究

截止日期

2021年9月30日

专刊链接：

http://www.climatechange.cn/CN/column/item220.shtml

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Advances in Climate Change Research

(SCI, IF=3.967)

About this research theme

By the end of 2020, around 51% of global CO2 emission countries had announced their carbon neutrality targets, making it feasible to achieve the Paris Agreement targets. At the time of writing, the United States had also indicated plans to rejoin the Paris Agreement. If that happens, technology-leading countries are positioned to move toward carbon neutrality. In order to understand the impact of this change, there is a need for further research into the feasibility of pathways and policy measures. This special issue of Advances in Climate Change Research invites researchers to publish research outputs that support countries’ targets.

Research topics

· Emission scenarios

· Sector pathway analyses

· Technology potential and feasibility analyses

· Economic impact assessments

· Regional studies

· Pathways of enterprise

· Key policy options and feasibility analyses

Submission deadline

30 June 2021

专刊链接：

http://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/advances-in-climate-change-research/call-for-papers/si-on-carbon-neutrality-assessment-of-pathways-and-policies/

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Environmental Science and Ecotechnology

清华大学、哈佛大学、伦敦政经、加州伯克利等高校顶级学者联合创办ESE首个特刊。

顾问委员会：

· 解振华，生态环境部气候变化事务特别顾问，清华大学气候变化与可持续发展研究院院长

· Michael B. McElroy院士，哈佛大学约翰·保尔森工程与应用科学学院

· Nicholas Stern院士，伦敦政治经济学院格兰瑟姆气候变化与环境研究所

· 郝吉明院士，清华大学环境学院

· 何建坤教授，清华大学气候变化与可持续发展研究院

主编

· 任南琪院士，哈尔滨工业大学

· 王金南院士，生态环境部环境规划院

· 吴丰昌院士，中国环境科学研究院

客座主编

· Daniel M. Kammen，加州大学伯克利分校可再生能源实验室

· 李政教授，清华大学气候变化与可持续发展研究院

· 鲁玺副教授，清华大学环境学院

About this research theme

Almost 18 years passed since the carbon neutrality concept was introduced. Meanwhile, the landmark deal, struck in 2015, aims to limit global warming to “well below” 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures, which pushes carbon neutrality to the forefront. Thus, it is critical to draw international attention to urgent topics, such as climate change, low-carbon economics and policies, green energies, ecotechnologies. As some leading countries in carbon neutrality have stepped ahead by pledging their targets and roadmaps, more effort from global scholars are necessary to help all nations act accordingly.

This special issue will cover a range of topics that would matter future most. For example, submissions concerning the following topics are welcome: national or regional energy policies, energy and environmental economics, analysis of energy-environment-economic systems, road-mapping of zero-carbon and negative-carbon technologies, collaborative paths of climate governance and atmospheric environmental quality. The special issue aims to provide a platform to share fantastic works with worldwide policymakers, stakeholders, scientists, engineers, and so on.

Research  topics

· National or regional energy policy, energy and environmental economics, energy and sustainability research;

· Integrated modeling and analysis of energy-environment-economic system for achieving carbon emissions peaking and carbon neutrality;

· Electric energy system planning methods under development paths that lead towards carbon neutrality;

· Modeling, evaluation and road-mapping of zero-carbon and negative-carbon energy technologies and systems such as renewable energy, hydrogen, CDR, and CCUS;

· Research on the collaborative path of climate governance and atmospheric environmental quality.

Submission deadline

30 June 2021

专刊链接：

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-science-and-ecotechnology/call-for-papers/carbon-neutrality-on-environmental-science-ecotechnology

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Journal of Cleaner Production

(SCI, IF=7.246)

About this research theme

Carbon neutrality refers to achieving net zero carbon dioxide emissions by balancing carbon dioxide emissions with removal. It is critical for achieving the global climate change targets. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1.5 °C Special Report, the world would have to achieve carbon neutrality by early mid-century to limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.

With the historic announcement that China will aim for carbon neutrality by 2060 some 65% of the world’s emissions are now subject to some form of net zero emissions goal. The climate research community must now make a similar seismic shift towards providing the world’s leaders with the tools and insights they will need to realize such ambitious goals. The trail-blazing IPCC 1.5 °C Special Report pioneered a focus on deep decarbonization pathways, but a vast landscape of detail must still be explored if we are to confidently manage such a profound restructuring of our economic systems.

The focus for this Special Issue will be on how those countries with stated carbon neutrality or net zero goals might achieve their aims, and what cross-cutting insights might be gained from energy transition dynamics observed around the world. This Special Issue seeks to deepen our understanding of enabling and accelerating the green transition of such large economies as China, EU, Japan, UK, and South Korea, and understanding how to accommodate potentially disruptive, non-marginal options for climate change mitigation, and any adverse outcomes they may bring. 

Research topics

· Electrification of end-uses (building, industry and transportation);

· Managing disruptive mitigation technologies;

· Energy efficiency improvements;

· Sectoral integration analysis (synergies and trade-offs), grid flexibility (energy storage, demand side management, etc.);

· Pathways with low energy and material demand;

· Behavioural changes;

· Non-CO2 emissions reduction;

· Regional, sectoral-level, mid-century strategies;

· GHG-neutral e-fuels (power-to-x technologies);

· Coal phase-out; power plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS);

· Bio-energy with CCS (BECCS);

· Synergies, co-benefits, and trade-offs between climate action and other SDGs.

Submission deadline

30 June 2021

专刊链接：

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production/call-for-papers/how-to-achieve-carbon-neutrality

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Journal of Environmental Management

(SCI, IF=5.647)

About this research theme

After the Paris Climate Conference (Conference of the Paris or COP: 21) held in December 2015 and the resulting Paris Agreement signed by about 196 sovereign nations, what is supposed to be followed is the implementation of the Paris Agreements. All the nations which agreed to play their part in tackling climate change shall honour their promise they made in Paris so that the Green House Emissions, particularly CO2 can be reduced which can then contain the global warming to the 1.5 - 2° C above pre-industrial levels. The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are the most crucial aspect of Paris-Agreement where each country endeavours to minimise its emission to domestically set targets or NDCs. In this regard, over 60 countries including the United Kingdom, Germany and France have set and committed to achieve carbon neutrality. While most of the countries have chosen the date of 2050, some countries like Norway and Uruguay have taken a more ambitious stance by setting carbon neutrality target date to 2030. However, mere setting a carbon neutrality target will not be ample to solve the most vital and existential challenge human civilisation is facing.

The most important issue is how to achieve these targets and what can be the optimal policy stance and strategies which can lead to the achievement of these targets in the prescribed time horizon. Furthermore, the countries which have not committed to carbon neutrality targets such as the USA and China, it is also vital to reduce emissions. The reduction of emissions to a carbon neutrality as a global level will require a global action which will entail suitable policy, use of appropriate technology and social attitude and behaviour to energy consumption and environment. These are crucial factors which can facilitate efforts to tackle the climate challenges and especially NDCs by the countries which have committed to deliver on the Paris Agreement. However, the question is how to formulate the appropriate energy policy and strategy to achieve these objectives. Therefore, the call for research on the subject is both timely and necessary to meet the global challenges we are facing in the 21st Century.

Considering the fact that the Journal of Environmental Management (JEMA)is an important platform which facilitates the examination of the empirical and theoretical interaction between use of energy, environment and economy, as well as environmental and energy regulation and their economic, social, political and organizational implications, this is the most suitable venue to this research. The contributions to the subject are expected to yield seminal findings which will have profound implications for a wide range of stakeholders including policymakers, managers, national and supranational originations and all aspect of society by addressing the vital issues around achieving carbon neutrality targets.

The objectives of the special issue include the exploration of the policy problems and solution posed by the climate challenges and scope of carbon neutrality targets in tackling these challenges. The objectives will also include the assessment of the empirical and theoretical interaction between use of energy, environment and economy, as well as environmental and energy regulation and their economic, social, political and organizational implications. The papers will be written by both academic scholars and researcher as well as practitioners of the energy and environmental policy particularly those focusing on the environmental aspect.

Research topics

· BRICS role in global growth and emission targets.

· Carbon capture and storage

· China and carbon neutrality targets

· Crowding in clean investment: Climate policy and the long-run returns

· Directed technological change and energy efficiency improvements

· Efficiency improvements in the use of a non-renewable resource

· Emerging markets and carbon neutrality targets

· Energy policy designs to progress energy efficiency improvement and emissions reduction

· Empirical analysis & theoretical analysis of green innovation

· Environmental policy, multinational firms and green innovation

· Future perspectives on the development of energy technologies and their role in achieving carbon neutrality targets

· Green process innovation and their role in reducing emissions

· G-20 share in global growth and global emissions

· International outsourcing and innovation in clean technologies

· Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies

· Multiple energy demands and innovation

· Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and the role of innovation

· Carbon neutrality targets and optimal policy framework

· Carbon neutrality targets and their economic implications

· Carbon neutrality targets and political-economy

· Productivity, efficiency, and spillovers for sustainable growth

· Role of innovation in the facilitation of ecological goal.

· Role of innovation in abandoning fossil fuel: How fast and how much

· Transition to low carbon technologies

· Technological changes in developed and developing economies and ecological consequences

· Trumnomics and carbon neutrality targets

· The design innovation and empirical analysis of corban trade markets

· Technological changes, technological diffusion and the choice of sustainable development path

· USA economy and carbon neutrality targets

Submission deadline

31 March 2021

专刊链接：

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-environmental-management/call-for-papers/carbon-neutrality

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Resources, Conservation & Recycling

(SCI, IF=8.086)

About this research theme

Carbon neutrality refers to net-zero anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mostly carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, an indispensable effort needed to navigate away from catastrophic climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has highlighted the importance of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, an urgency that is also echoed within the Paris Accord. In 2020, some major economies announced target dates for achieving carbon neutrality, many aiming for 2050 (e.g., Japan, Germany, and Canada). More recently, China, the most populous country and largest contributor to global GHG emissions, pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. A more progressive climate policy is also largely expected in the US with the incoming Biden administration.

Despite the global efforts to push for carbon neutrality, the pathway is yet not clear. Specifically, a balanced mixture of strategies aiming to reduce and offset GHG emissions is needed to achieve carbon neutrality. Emission reduction requires an effective transition from fossil fuel energy to renewables, improving energy efficiency, and adjusting current consumption patterns (Yin and Shi, 2020). Emission offsetting calls for nature-based solutions such as reforestation and technology-based ones such as negative emissions technologies. Establishing carbon neutrality pathways needs to identify the best combination of these strategies by considering their costs and benefits, tradeoffs, interdependence, uncertainties, and impacts to economic development, social justice, and environmental quality. Furthermore, carbon neutrality pathways need to be customized for different actors ranging from companies, subnational entities, countries, regions, and the world. Carbon neutrality goals and pathways of these actors might contradict each other.

Even with a clear pathway towards carbon neutrality, many challenges and barriers still exist. For example, the scale of effort required for carbon neutrality is significant. The European Commission (2020) projected that more than 270 billion Euros of investment per year would be necessary to achieve an 80% reduction of emissions just for the European Union while remaining a “competitive” economy. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought additional challenges with economic downturns around the world (Steffen et al., 2020). In addition, there are also underlying ethical dilemmas, such as the disagreement about how to allocate emission reduction responsibilities (Dhanda and Hartman, 2011). Research is needed to identify these challenges and barriers and find solutions to overcome them for carbon neutrality.

To fill these knowledge gap, this special issue aims to facilitate original research to help the transition towards carbon neutrality. We hope this special issue can contribute to carbon neutrality with science-based insights on pathways, barriers, and solutions.

Research topics

We welcome both theoretical and applied research focusing on various geographic levels and locations, with an emphasis on the importance of communicating the generalizability of local and region-specific research findings to other geographic contexts. Specifically, we are interested in contributions in two broad categories:

· Pathways to carbon neutrality: What pathways exist, what sustainability implications do these pathways have, which pathways are we likely to follow, and how effective will they be in achieving carbon-neutrality?

· Challenges and barriers to achieving carbon neutrality: What challenges and barriers exist, how has progress been in overcoming them, and what are the possible solutions for the remaining challenges and barriers?

Submission deadline

30 June 2021

专刊链接：

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/resources-conservation-and-recycling/call-for-papers/pathways-to-carbon-neutrality-challenges-and-opportunities

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Resources, Conservation & Recycling

(SCI, IF=8.086)

About this research theme

Countries are updating their Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement even in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. An increasing share of global CO2 emissions are now under national carbon neutrality commitments for 2050 or 2060. CO2 capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) is a key technology for CO2 mitigation (He et al., 2017; IPCC, 2005). CCUS may not only serve for deep CO2 mitigation in large point sources, but also it could provide an important, and probably necessary, means to achieve negative emissions when combined with bioenergy, without which carbon neutrality may be hard to achieve (European Academies' Science Advisory Council, 2018). However, its progress has been slow relative to renewable energy due to high costs and less co-benefits.

In a usual CCUS chain, CO2 is captured in large point sources and then transported to utilization and storage sites within one jurisdiction. The chain can also be internationalized to stretch across country borders with CO2 capture and storage in different jurisdictions. Such international CCUS chains could economically better optimize the matching of CO2 sources and storage sites in a broader geographical scope beyond confined jurisdictions and make greater contributions to global CO2 mitigation. The geographical distributions of oil and gas fields as well as large point CO2 sources are highly heterogeneous across the world (IPCC, 2005). As indicated in the significant global oil and gas trade, these two distributions are not well matched. International CCUS chains may convert the unidirectional trade into a bi-directional one by adding a return leg of CO2, which could lead to lower mitigation costs for those CO2 sources without convenient nearby utilization and storage sites. CO2 could also be commoditized to mandate new developments of related finance, trade and logistics markets and thus make its export for storage more attractive.

International CCUS chains could transform the current roles of multinational oil and gas corporations and major producing countries from supplying CO2-emitting fossil fuels to storing and managing CO2 for the globe. Enhanced oil/gas recovery (EOR/EGR) is a prominent CO2 utilization technology, among others, to store a large quantity of CO2 annually in potentially favorable geological formations of oil and gas fields. Because the stored CO2 could come from other countries and the total amount could be significantly more than the CO2 emissions from additionally produced oil and gas, the technology could make them net CO2 sinks in certain carbon accounting rules.

Enabling technologies are required to internationalize CCUS chains, but they have not been fully commercialized. Although technologies for pipeline CO2 transport are readily available, those for CO2 shipping are not (National Petroleum Council, 2019). Dedicated CO2 ships could be further developed. Those return legs of LNG (liquefied natural gas) or LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) carriers might transport liquefied CO2 either in separated or shared storage tankers for overall cost saving, but the technological feasibility is constrained by their design pressure and temperature. In addition, international CCUS chains mandate new infrastructures, such as storage tanks, liquefied CO2 carriers and CO2 exporting and importing terminals.

The futures of CCUS and fossil fuels are intertwined with much uncertainty. Without CCUS, there will essentially be no or very limited space for fossil fuels under carbon neutrality, while coal-fired power plants with CCUS may see their lifetimes extended much beyond the carbon-neutral time horizon. On the other hand, a visible share of fossil fuels in future energy mix also indicate that CCUS will not become obsolete in a carbon-neutral world, especially with the promise as negative emission technologies.

The economics of CCUS should be carefully assessed not only under current situations but also under carbon neutrality. A carbon-neutral world will have much-diminished demand for fossil fuels, including oil and gas, as energy resources and industrial feedstocks to significantly suppress their prices. The economic return of CO2 utilization with EOR/EGR could then be reduced to undermine the potential benefits of international CCUS chains or CCUS in general, especially when other CO2 storage sites such as deep saline aquifers are close.

International CCUS chains will raise new legal, policy and ethical challenges when captured CO2 is transported out of one jurisdiction, pass through international waters, and enters the third jurisdiction for storage (Dixon et al., 2015). Current domestic and international legal systems as well as climate policies may not be ready to regulate the internationalization process. CO2 emissions and offsets in the CCUS life cycle take place in different jurisdictions to complicate the legal and ethical premise of negative emissions.

Research topics

Recognizing the potential and complexity of international CCUS chains, this Special Issue takes a multiple-disciplinary approach to exploring various opportunities and challenges. Our goal is to lay a firm foundation for the continuous development of this research theme, especially when countries are diving deeper toward carbon neutrality. Review and research articles related to international CCUS chains are all welcome. They can address either one component or multiple interconnected components of the chains, within one jurisdiction or connecting multiple ones. No disciplinary, methodological, or geographic restrictions will be applied. New ideas are particularly encouraged.

Submission deadline

15 July 2021

专刊链接：

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/resources-conservation-and-recycling/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-international-chains-of-co2-capture-utilizat

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