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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…
Chun Huang, Liangji Deng, Xuesong Gao, Yi Luo, Shirong Zhang, Li Liu
The rapid urbanization and industrialization of China have led to a substantial reduction in farmland and the rapid expansion of urban-rural construction land, with the introduction of economic liberalization reforms in 1978. At present, scarcity of construct…
Deborah Cotton, Stefan Trück
Australia was one of the first countries in the world to adopt mandatory emissions trading schemes as part of its emissions mitigation program. To date there have been six states and one federal emissions mitigation schemes. Some state schemes operate in conj…
Xunmin Ou, Qian Zhang, Xu Zhang, Xiliang Zhang
Based on the analysis on the development trend of vehicle technology, vehicle price, vehicle fuel economy and fuel supply price, the new energy vehicle (NEV) passenger car development scale is projected on different scenario with the application of life time…
Athanasios Dagoumas
The international negotiations concerning climate change, taken place during the UNFCCC conference in Durban at the end of year 2011, have failed to establish a new global agreement to reduce global emissions. Therefore, the G8 commitments on 80% reduction by…
Boukehili Adel, Youtong Zhang, Chengqun Ni, Jutang Wei
In this paper a global optimization method (dynamic programming) is used to find the optimal power management in hybrid electric city bus for the objective to reduce the fuel consumption. Knowing that when using a global optimization method the results cannot…
Meidad Kissinger, Cornelia Sussmann, Jennie Moore, William E. Rees
Although many cities are engaged in efforts to calculate and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, most are accounting for “ scope one ” emissions i.e. , GHGs produced within urban boundaries (for example, following the protocol of the International Co…
Constancio Zamora Ramírez, José María González González
Low carbon economy is causing the implementation and development of carbon markets that affect an increasing organizations number. These markets entail new challenges to accounting practitioners. The aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to know how the fina…
Dong-Xin Li, Taewon Kang
Low-carbon economics is a new model of economic development in both international and domestic settings as well as the only way for all mankind to deal with climate change and achieve sustainable economic development. In addition to controlling carbon dioxide…
Balbinder Deo, Han Donker, Michael Schulz
This study assesses the production potential of carbon credits on private land in Central British Columbiathrough pine forest plantation projects. This study identifies the quality characteristics for determining the quality standards for car bon credits, and…
Margaret A. Reams, Kelsey W. Clinton, Nina S. N. Lam
In an effort to address climate change, many cities have joined the International Council for Local Environmental Initia tives (ICLEI) whose members commit to work toward five specific program objectives designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This study…
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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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