Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
A. G. Olabi, Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem
Summary: This editorial summarized some scientific works presented at the 2018 SEEP conference, which were directly related to the scope of the RSER journal. It focused on the development of renewable energy and its positive effect on climate change, and briefly summarized the accepted manuscripts in this issue.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Qiang Wang, Xiaowei Wang, Rongrong Li
Summary: Urbanization strengthens the positive correlation between economic growth and environmental quality, with economic growth having a greater impact on ecological footprint. Trade openness and natural resource rents increase environmental pressure, while population aging and renewable energy help improve environmental quality.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Junmin Ge, Ling Fan, Apparao M. Rao, Jiang Zhou, Bingan Lu
Summary: Aqueous potassium-ion batteries have emerged as a more sustainable technology to complement lithium-ion counterparts. Ge et al. engineer the surface of a potassium manganese hexacyanoferrate cathode material, achieving unprecedented electrochemical performance in full K-ion cells.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente, Lucia Ibanez-Luzon, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Shahbaz
Summary: This study investigates the dynamic association between economic complexity, foreign direct investment, renewable energy, urbanization process, and carbon emissions in PIIGS countries. The results show an inverted-U and further N-shaped relationship between economic complexity and CO2 emissions, confirming the presence of the environmental Kuznets curve hypotheses. The findings also support the pollution haven hypothesis and reveal the inhibiting effect of renewable energy on CO2 emissions. Urbanization process exerts significant pressure on environmental quality. Additionally, a bidirectional causal link is found between economic complexity and CO2 emissions.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Daliang Han, Changjun Cui, Kangyu Zhang, Zhenxing Wang, Jiachen Gao, Yong Guo, Zhicheng Zhang, Shichao Wu, Lichang Yin, Zhe Weng, Feiyu Kang, Quan-Hong Yang
Summary: Aqueous zinc batteries are safer than lithium-ion batteries, but their anodes are susceptible to dendrite failure and side reactions. The authors demonstrate a low-cost electrolyte that involves hydrate salt and organic solvent, proving to be non-flammable. The zinc battery cell delivers excellent performance even at low temperatures of -30 degrees Celsius.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kashif Raza Abbasi, Muhammad Shahbaz, Jinjun Zhang, Muhammad Irfan, Rafael Alvarado
Summary: This study examines the environmental factors influencing China's CO2 emissions, finding that fossil fuel energy significantly increases CO2 emissions in both the long and short term. GDP increases carbon emissions in the long term but has a negative impact on the environment in the short run. The use of renewable energy has a short-term detrimental effect on CO2 emissions. The results suggest that consuming renewable energy is crucial for achieving sustainable environmental goals.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ahsan Anwar, Avik Sinha, Arshian Sharif, Muhammad Siddique, Shoaib Irshad, Waseem Anwar, Summaira Malik
Summary: This study explores the impact of urbanization, renewable energy consumption, financial development, agriculture, and economic growth on CO2 emissions in 15 Asian economies from 1990 to 2014. The results suggest that urbanization, financial development, and economic growth increase CO2 emissions, while renewable energy consumption reduces CO2 emissions, with agriculture having an insignificant impact. The study recommends a comprehensive SDG-oriented policy framework for these economies to progress towards achieving SDG 13 and SDG 7 objectives, contributing to the literature by including economic growth and its drivers.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Abraham Alem Kebede, Theodoros Kalogiannis, Joeri Van Mierlo, Maitane Berecibar
Summary: This study investigates the current status and applicability of energy storage devices and identifies the most suitable types for grid support applications. Various criteria such as technical, economic, and environmental impact evaluations are considered to determine the characteristics and potentials of different storage technologies. The findings show that a hybrid solution with a combination of various storage devices is a viable option in the sector.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Caoxing Huang, Xiao Jiang, Xiaojun Shen, Jinguang Hu, Wei Tang, Xinxing Wu, Arthur Ragauskas, Hasan Jameel, Xianzhi Meng, Qiang Yong
Summary: Efficiently producing second-generation biofuels from biomass remains a long-term challenge due to biomass recalcitrance. Lignin significantly contributes to biomass recalcitrance by physically limiting enzyme access to carbohydrates. Research is focused on mitigating the negative effects of lignin on enzyme performance.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Muhammad Usman, Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente, Atif Jahanger, Paiman Ahmad
Summary: The study explores the impact of financial development, natural resources, globalization, and energy consumption on the ecological footprint in financially resource-rich countries, finding that financial development, natural resources, and non-renewable energy positively affect the ecological footprint, while globalization and renewable energy reduce it. The interaction between financial development with globalization and renewable energy with natural resources is also shown to reduce environmental deterioration, highlighting the importance of improving financial and natural resource structures and increasing renewable energy consumption in these countries.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Sundari Ramakrishna, C. Michael Hall, Kourosh Esfandiar, Siamak Seyfi
Summary: This study systematically reviews the research contributions on sustainable tourism indicators (STIs) and finds some deficiencies in terms of the sustainable development goals relevance, governance, stakeholder involvement, and distinction between subjective and objective indicators. The findings also demonstrate the neglect of governance dimension in STIs studies and the high engagement of residents as compared to tourists.
JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhiguo Li, Jie Wang
Summary: This paper examines the impact of the digital economy on carbon emissions through nonlinear analysis using the spatial DURBIN model and panel threshold model. The results show an inverted U-shaped relationship between the digital economy and carbon emissions, with the direct effect being significantly greater than the indirect effect. The study also finds regional heterogeneity and threshold effects in the relationship between the digital economy and carbon emissions.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
M. Sheikholeslami, Zafar Said, M. Jafaryar
Summary: This article presents a numerical simulation for the thermal analysis of a parabolic trough collector (PTC) with a wavy absorber tube using the finite volume method. The study investigates the performance of a new wavy absorber tube in a solar system with a parabolic reflector. The results show that increasing the Reynolds number (Re) and the volume concentration can improve the heat transfer efficiency.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Abidur Rahman, Omar Farrok, Md Mejbaul Haque
Summary: This paper analyzes the environmental impacts of renewable energy source (RES) based power plants, including solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydroelectric, tidal, ocean current, oceanic wave, ocean thermal, and osmotic effects. The SWOT analysis is conducted for all RES based power plants, and the comparative environmental impact analyses are presented. It is found that careful selection of RES is necessary to prevent harm to the environment.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Development Studies
Zahoor Ahmed, Mahmood Ahmad, Husam Rjoub, Olga A. Kalugina, Nazim Hussain
Summary: Environmental regulations are crucial for achieving ecological sustainability, and democracy helps to reduce ecological footprints and promote the use of renewable energy. While economic growth may increase ecological footprints to some extent, the implementation of democracy and environmental regulations can mitigate this trend.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Herve Corvellec, Alison F. Stowell, Nils Johansson
Summary: Critiques addressed to the circular economy and circular business models focus on their diffused limits, unclear theoretical grounds, and structural obstacles. The sustainability value of the circular economy is uncertain compared to what its advocates claim.
JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chaokai Xue, Muhammad Shahbaz, Zahoor Ahmed, Mahmood Ahmad, Avik Sinha
Summary: The impact of clean energy consumption on CO2 emissions in France, as the third largest European economy, from 1987 to 2019 was analyzed. The study found that clean energy consumption does not contribute to emissions reduction in the long run, while economic policy uncertainty poses a threat to environmental sustainability by increasing emissions levels. Economic growth boosts CO2 emissions, while urbanization supports environmental quality.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ehsan Rasoulinezhad, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary
Summary: This study examines the relationship between CO2 emissions, energy efficiency, green energy index, and green finance using the STIRPAT model. The results indicate that green bonds are an effective method to promote green energy projects and reduce CO2 emissions.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Andrew Adewale Alola, Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo, Stephen Taiwo Onifade
Summary: China's ecological footprint per capita is below the global average, but puts significant pressure on ecological capacity. The study found that economic growth has a positive effect on ecological footprint, as does fossil fuel and primary energy utilization, while renewable energy utilization has varied impacts on ecological footprint.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jerry L. Holechek, Hatim M. E. Geli, Mohammed N. Sawalhah, Raul Valdez
Summary: Our study evaluated the effectiveness of using eight pathways in combination for a complete transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy by 2050. The key findings include the need to increase renewable energy production and improve energy efficiency, as well as the importance of energy conservation policies and carbon taxes. The study also highlights the varying levels of per capita energy consumption based on regional, national development, and climate conditions, and emphasizes the necessity of major lifestyle changes in developed countries and global cooperation to achieve a full energy transition.
