Special Issue on Carbon Neutrality for a Better World

In light of global grand challenges associated with climate change, many countries and regions, including Europe, China, South Korea, Japan and South Africa, are targeting carbon neutrality by the mid 2000s. This goal is transforming businesses, industries, society at large and geopolitical circumstances, as well as individual lives. It demands new technologies and practices, including collaboration, and is a challenging task for nations, organisations and people around the world.

Topics Covered:

• Policies and global cooperation for carbon neutrality.
• Best practices and strategies to deal with the challenges of carbon reduction and carbon neutrality at the macro, meso and micro levels.
• Social activities and barriers involved in achieving carbon neutrality targets and the responses of individuals and organisations.
• Inclusive innovation and social entrepreneurship encountered during the process to reach carbon neutrality.
• Pathways to the future: probable scenarios and social transitions towards carbon neutrality, including energy transitions.
• How the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic can be used to design and carry out preparation plans on an international scale.
• How new technologies and methodologies can be leveraged to benefit society, including effective applications of practices to achieve carbon neutrality, e.g., digital technologies, life cycle assessment and carbon footprint evaluations.

Important Deadlines:

• Submission deadline: 28 February 2022

Submission Instructions:

Please read the Guide for Authors before submitting. All articles should be submitted online; please select Carbon Neutrality on submission.

We Have Waived the Article Publishing Charges (APC) for this Special Issue

Global Transitions is a fully Open Access journal. Once published, articles are free to read, download and share from Elsevier’s ScienceDirect. Authors retain the copyright to their work. To cover the costs of Open Access publishing, Global Transitions normally charges an APC if an article is accepted for publication - the discounted APC for 2021 is USD 250 plus tax. However, authors will not be charged an APC if their article is accepted for publication in this special issue, as long as we receive the submission before the 31 July deadline.

Guest Editors:

• Professor Jin Chen, Tsinghua University, China. Email: chenjin@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn
• Professor Jun Jin, Zhejiang University, China. Email: junjin@zju.edu.cn
• Professor David Tyfield, Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Email: d.tyfield@lancaster.ac.uk