Sustainable Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

Dear Colleagues,

Human-induced warming reached approximately 1 °C above pre-industrial levels in 2017, increasing by 0.2 °C per decade (SR15, IPPC, 2018). The spread of fossil-fuel-based material consumption and changing lifestyles are major drivers of global resource use and the main contributors to rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Fleurbaey et al., 2014). Reductions in GHG emissions pose a significant challenge.

Barriers for transitioning from climate change mitigation and adaptation planning to practical policy implementation include finance, information, technology, public attitudes, social values and practices (Whitmarsh et al., 2011; Corner and Clarke, 2017), and human resource constraints. The institutional capacity to deploy available knowledge and resources is also needed (Mimura et al., 2014). Attention is directed to exploring questions of adaptation and mitigation implementation, integration, and transformation in a highly interdependent world with consideration of synergies and trade-offs.

The deployment of technology depends upon economic, social, cultural, and institutional conditions (Sovacool et al., 2015). Achieving this target while meeting growing global energy demands will require major changes in the technology used around the world. Technological developments are needed not only in energy, but also in transport, food/agriculture, buildings, industry, and other areas of human activities.

Importantly, the diversity of systems, resources, and national contexts means that addressing climate change and other environmental issues will require innovation across a whole range of existing and potential technologies, as well as the development of solutions adapted to local situations. Innovation could reduce the cost of existing climate change mitigation technologies and enable them to be deployed on a large scale, while investment in fundamental research will help to advance the frontiers of technology.

We hope this Special Issue in Sustainability will provide an advanced forum for research related to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases removal, capture, and storage, as well as innovative approaches towards adaptation to changing climate conditions.

Prof. Linas Kliucininkas
Guest Editor

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• climate change
• carbon dioxide
• greenhouse gases
• mitigation
• adaptation
• technology
• innovation