Carbon Neutrality: aiming for a net-zero carbon future

Greenhouse gas emissions have increased rapidly and global warming is an emerging huge threat to the human society since the industrial revolution. In 2015 the Paris Agreement set a global goal to achieve carbon neutrality in the second half of the century, and more than 130 countries have been committed to this goal. Carbon neutrality is a multi-disciplinary and comprehensive research area involving energy, environment, finance, management, and other disciplines. For example, the research in low-carbon energy transition not only covers related technologies such as renewables and energy storage, carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), etc., but also involves social sciences topics including climate change investment and financing, carbon management, circular economy, etc. At present, there is no one comprehensive journal which can cover the above topics. Although several journals involve some aspects of lowcarbon research, the coverage is quite narrow, mostly focusing on one single discipline such as energy, environmental or policy study. The lack of cross-disciplinary research in the low-carbon area has seriously hindered the rapid development and promotion of net-zero carbon technologies, policies and ideas. In view of this, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Springer Nature jointly launched the journal of Carbon Neutrality in 2021.