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Mechanisms, Technologies, and Policies for Carbon Peaking, Carbon Neutral Processes

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 877

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Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Interests: land use and transportation integration; smart cities; low-carbon cities; sustainable urban form and policies; plan evaluation
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College of Management, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063200, China
Interests: international investment; transnational corporation theory, regional economy, urban economy
College of Metallurgy and Energy, North China University of Science and Technology, Caofeidian, Tangshan 063200, China
Interests: mineral-phase feature identification and extraction; CO emission reduction and pollutant treatment of sintering flue gas; metallurgical energy saving and resource optimization
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Dear Colleagues,

The coordinated and sustainable development of the environment has always been valued by countries around the world. Governments from developing and developed countries recently reiterated their commitment to attaining carbon neutrality through energy efficiency, renewable energy, green financing, and a sustainable transportation system at the COP26 conference. Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality have become an important strategic goal for the world’s major energy-consuming countries to control carbon dioxide emissions. Determining how to effectively achieve this strategic goal has become the focus of global government managers and academics.

This Special Issue will collect papers on the mechanism and path of green low-carbon development in the industry, low-carbon transition strategy, and government policy support, including but not limited to cleaner production, low carbon efficiency, carbon footprint accounting, low-carbon supply chain, carbon data modeling, and simulation. The issue is planned to bring together academia with the most up-to-date techniques and theoretical expertise to further our understanding of feature utilization industry renovation, as well as inform policymakers about the stringent policy insights required to reach carbon neutrality in time.

Prof. Dr. Yan Song
Prof. Dr. Yuzhen Yang
Dr. Jie Li
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Keywords

  • carbon neutrality
  • carbon peaking
  • clean production
  • carbon accounting
  • low carbon efficiency
  • low carbon supply chain
  • industry economy
  • sustainability
  • government policy
  • modeling and simulation.

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Exploring the Generation Z Attitude towards Energy Efficiency Improvement and Decarbonization through Heat Pumps: An Empirical Study in Romania
by Adrian Tantau, Simona Irina Goia (Agoston), Violeta Mihaela Dincă, Carmen Păunescu, Stere Stamule, Tănase Stamule and Anca Bogdan
Sustainability 2024, 16(3), 1250; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16031250 - 01 Feb 2024
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This article aims to analyze the attitude of Generation Z representatives from Romania regarding the improvement in energy efficiency and decarbonization through the utilization of modern integrated technologies such as heat pumps, thermal energy storage, and smart control systems. It uses primary data [...] Read more.
This article aims to analyze the attitude of Generation Z representatives from Romania regarding the improvement in energy efficiency and decarbonization through the utilization of modern integrated technologies such as heat pumps, thermal energy storage, and smart control systems. It uses primary data from a questionnaire-based survey conducted between March and June 2023, with 389 valid responses, for the following purposes: (1) to analyze the attitude of young respondents towards the utilization of sustainable modern integrated technologies, such as heat pumps, in order to increase energy efficiency and reduce carbon footprints; (2) to identify the factors that may influence their attitude regarding these technologies; (3) to understand the influence that the resulting factors may exert on the attitude towards utilization of heat pumps, implicitly leading to energy efficiency improvement and decarbonization in Romania; and (4) to formulate policy recommendations for improving energy efficiency and stimulating decarbonization in Romania. This study employs various descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and multiple regression. The results show that there are six categories of factors influencing the attitude of Generation Z representatives, with “Drivers for improving energy efficiency” along with “Traditional measures for improving energy efficiency” having the largest influence on driving a positive attitude toward energy efficiency improvement and decarbonization. The main policy recommendation derived from this study refers to developing policies and strategies that incentivize citizens not only to have a positive attitude toward energy efficiency and decarbonization through the utilization of heat pumps but also trigger concrete action for installing heat pump technology. Another recommendation concerns the further development and expansion of national and local programs for insulating the external surface of buildings and the replacement of windows and exterior doors that do not have thermal insulation. The third major recommendation is related to awareness creation campaigns among the population about modern measures for improving energetic efficiency, such as heat pumps. Full article
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