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Exploring Carbon Emission Issues and Emission Reduction Methods

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B3: Carbon Emission and Utilization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 13256

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Wen-Hsien Tsai

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Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan 32001, Taiwan
Interests: sustainability; green production decision model; industry 4.0; corporate social responsibility (CSR); activity-based costing (ABC); enterprise resource planning (ERP); carbon emission cost; energy saving and carbon emission reduction; international financial reporting standards (IFRS)
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Prof. Dr. Cheng-Tsu Huang

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Department of Business Administration, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan 32001, Taiwan
Interests: sustainability; corporate social responsibility (CSR); financial accounting; earnings management; financial analyst behavior; corporate finance

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Global warning, also known as climate change, is the most serious and persistent problem for humankind today. Carbon dioxide (CO2) (also known as carbon emission) is the most important cause of global warming. Families, schools, businesses, communities, government units, etc. can all contribute to resolve the issues arising from high carbon emission. In terms of transportation, we can reduce carbon emissions by driving low carbon or electric vehicles, walking more, using bikes more often, or flying less, if possible. We can also use solar energy in our home to reduce carbon emission and consume/use more locally produced food, clothing, etc., to reduce carbon emissions arising from transportation of goods. Clearly, our carbon footprint can be reduced through changes in many aspects of our daily lives.

Enterprises must also find ways to reduce their carbon emission, and various incentives have been created to encourage this, such as the introduction of carbon pricing, the increase of energy efficiency standards, and the implementation of auctions for the lowest-cost renewable energy. Among these, carbon pricing refers to charges to those who emit carbon dioxide (CO2), including carbon taxes, emissions trading systems (ETSs), carbon offset, and so on.

In view of the urgent need to reduce carbon emission, we would like to invite researchers and professionals from universities, enterprises, and governmental units to share new ideas, innovations, trends, and experiences concerning the related issues of carbon emission in business operation and daily life. The present Special Issue invites contributions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Carbon tax;
  • Carbon trading;
  • Cap-and-trade;
  • Carbon offset;
  • Carbon pricing;
  • Carbon footprint;
  • Carbon emission reduction in home;
  • Carbon emission reduction in office;
  • Carbon emission reduction in school;
  • Carbon emission reduction in community;
  • Carbon emission reduction in various industries;
  • Carbon emission reduction in logistics;
  • Carbon capture and storage;
  • Direct carbon emission;
  • Indirect carbon emission;
  • Carbon recycling;
  • Renewable/green energy;
  • Zero/low carbon energy;
  • Zero/low emission building;
  • Zero/low emission plant;
  • Zero/low emission vehicle;
  • Electric vehicle;
  • Zero/low emission plant;
  • Energy saving method;
  • Energy efficiency management systems;
  • Carbon audit;
  • Energy-efficient products;
  • Enterprise carbon accounting;
  • Fossil fuel;
  • Greenhouse effect;
  • Green (environmental) burial;
  • Environmental protection;
  • Kyoto protocol;
  • Li Keqiang index;
  • Carbon emission record in enterprise resource planning system;
  • Corporate social responsibility in carbon emission.

Prof. Dr. Wen-Hsien Tsai
Prof. Dr. Cheng-Tsu Huang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • carbon tax
  • carbon trading
  • cap-and-trade
  • carbon offset
  • carbon pricing
  • carbon footprint
  • carbon emission reduction
  • logistics
  • carbon capture
  • carbon storage
  • direct carbon emission
  • indirect carbon emission
  • carbon recycling
  • renewable/green energy
  • zero/low carbon energy
  • zero/low emission building
  • zero/low emission plant
  • zero/low emission vehicle
  • electric vehicle
  • zero/low emission plant
  • energy saving method
  • energy efficiency management systems
  • carbon audit
  • energy-efficient products
  • enterprise carbon accounting
  • fossil fuel
  • greenhouse effect
  • green (environmental) burial
  • environmental protection
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • Li Keqiang index
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Corporate Social Responsibility

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Tax or Clean Technology? Measuring the True Effect on Carbon Emissions Mitigation for Sweden and Norway
by David Bonilla, David Banister and Uberto Salgado Nieto
Energies 2022, 15(11), 3885; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15113885 - 25 May 2022
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Studies of carbon emissions typically focus on price and tax effects or technology. We argue that the two are closely linked within an economy in disequilibrium. Our goals are twofold: (1) to examine the combined role of: low CO2 technology, fuel taxes [...] Read more.
Studies of carbon emissions typically focus on price and tax effects or technology. We argue that the two are closely linked within an economy in disequilibrium. Our goals are twofold: (1) to examine the combined role of: low CO2 technology, fuel taxes and CO2 tax on taming CO2 emissions and (2) to build a counterfactual analysis by capturing anything else that causes emissions to diverge from the trend such as renewable energy, energy laws and the state of the economy. The equilibrium correction model (EqCM) suggests that emissions have a long-term relationship with economic growth, fossil fuel use, taxes and clean power sources. Both oil and gas extraction and economic growth raise Norway’s emissions, offsetting the mitigating effect of taxes. Sweden´s carbon fuel tax elasticity is 20%, a value far above Norway´s elasticity, even though these carbon taxes were phased-in under a period of macroeconomic instability, weakening their effectiveness. The income elasticity of emissions is negative for Norway and positive for Sweden. Emission cuts require (a) de-growth, (b) a higher tax on transport fuels and (c) electrification of transport. The effects of tax, technology, economic growth and those for the pre- and post-carbon tax era differ strongly in the two nations. Full article
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Limiting of Carbon Dioxide Emissions through Rational Management of Pro-Ecological Activities in the Context of CSR Assumptions
by Aleksandra Kuzior, Katarzyna Anna Postrzednik-Lotko and Stefan Postrzednik
Energies 2022, 15(5), 1825; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15051825 - 01 Mar 2022
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This article highlights the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by reducing energy consumption. Of course, this can be achieved in various ways, but inter alia, through the practical implementation of the assumptions contained in the CSR programs of individual companies, which include [...] Read more.
This article highlights the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by reducing energy consumption. Of course, this can be achieved in various ways, but inter alia, through the practical implementation of the assumptions contained in the CSR programs of individual companies, which include a component on environmental protection and counteracting global warming. The authors also describe a proposal to reduce CO2 emissions by using coke oven gas (if necessary) in exchange for natural gas. Currently, the largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions are the combustion of fossil fuels in power plants, transport—cars and planes, processes related to the production of industrial goods, and deforestation. In the preparation of the article, the analysis of the literature on the subject, analysis of documents, desk research, and two case studies were used. The main goal of the article is to present the possibilities of reducing CO2 emissions by implementing the assumptions of the CSR policy on the example of a selected company (models of such activities are also given). Therefore, the aim of the article is to present selected activities that can contribute to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in enterprises; of course, this is specific each time and should be individually selected for each enterprise depending on financial, environmental, and any other conditions. This means that almost all enterprises, organizations, and all other institutions should be obliged to implement an individual environmental policy related to the possibility of reducing carbon dioxide emissions worldwide, and the effects of implementing the assumptions of this policy should be regularly, at least once a year, presented in the CSR reports of a given organization. However, each organization should provide its own examples of how it reduces carbon dioxide emissions. For this reason, this article presents an example of the Marcel CHP plant, which, due to its capabilities, also uses coke oven gas, the use of which results in lower emissions of carbon dioxide than natural gas. Additionally, the article presents a comparative analysis of the use of coke oven gas instead of natural gas. The obtained results show the significant and real possibilities of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Full article
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Energy Saving and Carbon Neutrality in the Funeral Industry
by Kuo-Hsien Lee, Chung-Chen Huang, Sophia Chuang, Cheng-Tsu Huang, Wen-Hsien Tsai and Chu-Lun Hsieh
Energies 2022, 15(4), 1457; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041457 - 16 Feb 2022
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As a result of the global population growth since World War II, and the major impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the increase in the number of deaths, carbon emissions resulting from cremations in the funeral industry have increased by more than initially [...] Read more.
As a result of the global population growth since World War II, and the major impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the increase in the number of deaths, carbon emissions resulting from cremations in the funeral industry have increased by more than initially expected. In order to achieve the goal of the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, to reach net-zero carbon neutrality by 2050, in this study, we comprehensively examined the literature on the differences in burial methods in terms of carbon emissions, and undertook stepwise analysis of the solution’s sequence from 1990 to 2050 using the recurrence relations in the trend changes using 5-year intervals. By collecting the annual number of global deaths and calculating the average carbon emissions per death to be 245 kg, we analyzed and compared these data with the annual carbon dioxide amount and global population until 2050. In addition, the results for cremation and Cryomation were analyzed and compared to construct a model of comparative advantage. The results of this study show that Cryomation is more energy efficient and has a greater impact on carbon emission reduction than cremation because it does not require carbon emission elements such as embalming or coffins. Thus, Cryomation can effectively reduce damage to the environment. Taking appropriate strategies for the funeral industry to promote Cryomation can achieve the goals of environmental protection and sustainable development. Full article
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