Trends and Perspectives in Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit manuscripts to a Special Issue on “Trends and Perspectives in Greenhouse Gas Emissions”.

Fighting climate change requires cutting down greenhouse gas emissions, yet the “right” pace, sectoral, and regional distribution are highly debated among scholars, policymakers, and practitioners. To have a solid foundation, it must be clear what has driven greenhouse gas emissions in the past and what can effectively and efficiently drive them down in the future. This applies from the local to the global scale. At the same time, reducing emissions raises distributional questions, both regionally and between sectors. 

Within this scope, researchers are invited to submit articles that address questions in the following areas:

• Which trends in greenhouse gas emissions can be observed in specific sectors such as energy, industry, mobility, agriculture, buildings, and LULUCF?
• Which trends and perspectives emerge for sectoral emission shifts or backstop options?
• How has COVID-19 changed (the reliability of) projections, and which (in)direct impacts can be identified?
• Which trends and perspectives emerge in specific regions, from a regional scale to countries? What may (not) be learned from best-practice examples?
• Are there pronounced regional shifts in emissions, or can they be expected? What distributional questions arise in this context, and how may they be approached from an economic perspective?
• Which policies have proven (in)effective and (in)efficient in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in specific contexts, and what can be learned from these experiences?
• What role do greenhouse gas accounting rules or the organization of greenhouse gas statistics play?

Submissions with a clear connection to the overarching topic are welcome from the fields of economics, energy (system) studies, and related areas. Findings should be relevant to academic researchers, policymakers, or practitioners.

The methodological scope of this Special Issue is open. We welcome quantitative papers as well as papers with a critical qualitative perspective on methods, statistics, findings, trends, and perspectives in greenhouse gas emissions.

Dr. Martin Cames
Dr. Alexander Zerrahn
Dr. Roman Mendelevitch
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• greenhouse gas emissions
• policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
• greenhouse gas accounting
• emission projections