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Low Carbon Economy is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in low carbon economy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of low carbon economy. Al…
Nina Braschel, Alfred Posch, Vera Pusterhofer
The present study develops an approach explicitly to cover the waste sector under the Emissions Trading Scheme of the European Union (EU ETS). The objective is to analyze various allocation possibilities and the resulting monetary burdens for the waste sector…
Miyako Enokibori, Ryuji Matsuhashi, Yoshikuni Yoshida
Using data from a survey, we examined actions taken by large corporations based in three countries to combat climate change and related these actions to the corporations’ financial performance. We analyzed the correlation between financial performance and cli…
Nophea Sasaki, Issei Abe, Vathana Khun, Somanta Chan, Hiroshi Ninomiya, Kimsun Chheng
Carbon emissions from selectively logged forests in the tropics are strongly affected by logging practices. Although tropical forests are mainly managed under the concession system, only a handful of studies were done to assess the impact of logging practices…
Bjoern Buesing, Ming Yang
Decentralized or distributed small renewable power facilities are usually installed in local communities for households and small business companies. These facilities include solar PV, concentrated solar power, and wind power, etc. In order to promote install…
Paula Castesana, Salvador Puliafito
With the purpose of studying the influence of population dynamics and economic growth on energy consumption and carbon emissions, an endogenous economic growth model is proposed incorporating physical and human capital and using an Agent-Based Model. The mode…
Hui Zhou, Jie Cao, Jichuan Sheng
Production for international trade has played an important role in driving the rapid increase of Chinese CO 2 emissions. This paper uses input-output analysis to quantitatively estimate the effect of the bilateral trade between China and its present largest t…
Paula Castesana, Salvador Enrique Puliafito
Short-term and mid-term projections of energy consumption and carbon emissions raise significant concern about the availability of the necessary energy resources to meet the growing demand and about the impact of emissions on global change. Different macroeco…
Ngozi Claribelle Nwogu, Edward Gobina, Mohammed Nasir Kajama
A nanoporous-structured tubular hybrid inorganic membrane capable of stripping carbon dioxide from flue gas stream was designed and tested at laboratory scale to improve compliance with various environmental regulations to cushion the effect of global warming…
Dapeng Liang, Xinpeng Xing, Weidong Shen
Due to the advantages such as high efficiency of electricity generation and high degree of cleanness, Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power plant represents the direction of development for all fired power plants in China. This essay analyzes th…
Hyunsook Lee, Kiyo Kurisu, Keisuke Hanaki
To develop the low-carbon society, in addition to the efforts by industrial and commercial sectors, promotion of people’s pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) has become one of the key issues. Some PEBs have been investigated in previous studies, however, the t…
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Low Carbon Economy is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in low carbon economy. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of low carbon economy. Al… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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