Call for papers Special volume on “Carbon Emissions Reduction: Policies, Technologies, Monitoring, Assessment and Modeling” q Donald Huisingh a , Zhihua Zhang b, * , John C. Moore b, c, d , Qi Qiao e , Qi Li f a Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA b College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China c Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland d Arctic Centre, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden e Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China f Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China article info Article history: Received 13 July 2013 Accepted 13 July 2013 Available online 27 September 2013 Climate change is now widely recognized as the major environ- mental problem facing human societies. Its impacts and costs will be large, serious, and unevenly spread. Due to the observed increases in temperature, decreases in snow & ice extent and increases in sea level, global warming is unequivocal. The main factor causing climate change and global warming is the increase of global carbon emissions. According to the Forth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of United States (IPCC AR4), the largest growth in carbon emissions between 1970 and 2004 come from en- ergy supply, transport and industry, while residential and commercial buildings, forestry/deforestation and agriculture sectors also contributed substantial quantities of carbon dioxide and methane. Continued increases in carbon dioxide and methane emissions will cause further warming and will induce many changes in the global climate system. It is likely that global warming will exceed 2  this century unless global carbon emissions are cut by at least 50% of the 1990 levels by 2050, and by much more, thereafter. Therefore, it is important that global society dramatically reduces its fossil carbon emissions in order to minimize the severity of climate changes. Recent developments of cleaner production interventions to bring about greater energy efficiency can reduce carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Meanwhile, the need to reduce carbon emissions is driving increasing use of renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic, wind power, small-scale hydro, geo-thermal and bio- fuels. In addition, a number of methods aimed at direct carbon removal have been applied in industries & agriculture. We invite in- vestigators to contribute to this special volume on “Carbon Emissions Reduction: Policies, Technologies, Monitoring, Assessment and Modeling” with original research articles, review articles, and case studies. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Energy-saving & emission-reduction technologies. Energy- saving technologies in cleaner production, circular economy, and eco-industry, can reduce carbon emissions and help to mitigate climate change. Energy efficiency can be accomplished in any system, which applies new technologies, processes or practices to achieve the same outcome while using less energy. Due to increasing environ- mental pressures, energy supply constraints, rising energy costs, and stricter emission requirements, enterprises that efficiently manage energy and other input resources are more likely to thrive over the long term by keeping production costs competitive. Comprehensive efficiency improvement strategies to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions are already used in many countries. Topics of interests will target but not be limited to the following fields: 1. Specific energy efficiency & emission-reduction technologies and measures in industries, agricultures, construction, trans- portation, and buildings; 2. Regional planning and low-carbon development; 3. Cleaner & low-carbon production technologies, strategies, po- tentials, effects, and policies; 4. Carbon emission trends & reduction potentials; 5. Investment, operation and maintenance costs; 6. Carbon footprint calculation and life cycle analysis; 7. International energy efficiency comparisons of different countries. Assessment of carbon removal technologies. In order to mitigate climate change, a number of technologies aimed at direct carbon removal, such as carbon capture & storage (CCS) and geo- engineering, have been developed and applied in industries, q This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works License, which per- mits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: donaldhuisingh@comcast.net (D. Huisingh), zhangzh@ bnu.edu.cn (Z. Zhang). Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Cleaner Production journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jclepro 0959-6526/$ e see front matter Ó 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.07.025 Journal of Cleaner Production 64 (2014) 6e8 brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector