Journal of Energy, Environment & Carbon Credits

Journal of Energy, Environment & Carbon Credits Journal of Energy, Environment & Carbon Credits [2249-8621(e)] is a peer-reviewed hybrid open access journal launched in 2010 and focusing on the publication of ongoing research & reviews in the field of Energy, Environment and Carbon Credits (carbon emissions).

• Energy and Environmental Issues: Energy-environment interactions, greenhouse-gas emissions, global warming, environmental footprints, plastic and waste footprints, ecosystem impacts, sustainability assessment, environmental degradation, and integrated energy-environment studies.
• Energy Planning and Policy: National and regional energy planning, strategic energy planning, municipal energy systems, renewable-energy policy, electricity-sector planning, energy-transition pathways, regulatory frameworks, and public participation.
• Renewable and Sustainable Energy: Solar, wind, hydropower, bioenergy, geothermal, tidal and ocean energy, hybrid renewable systems, distributed generation, clean-energy transition, and sustainable-energy technologies.
• Energy Management: Building energy management, industrial energy management, demand-side management, energy audits, load management, microgrids, smart energy systems, energy optimization, and intelligent energy-management models.
• Energy Efficiency: Energy conservation, primary-energy savings, high-efficiency systems, energy-performance assessment, process optimization, efficient buildings, industrial efficiency, and energy-saving technologies.
• Smart Grids and Microgrids: Distributed energy resources, smart metering, grid automation, microgrid planning, demand response, renewable integration, energy storage, and intelligent grid control.
• Energy Storage Systems: Batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, hydrogen storage, thermal storage, pumped storage, hybrid storage, and grid-scale storage technologies.
• Hydrogen and Fuel-Cell Technologies: Green hydrogen, water electrolysis, hydrogen production, storage and transport, fuel cells, solid-oxide fuel cells, hydrogen-powered transport, and hydrogen-based energy systems. Recent JoEECC content on green hydrogen supports this as a core emerging area.
• Electric Vehicles and Clean Mobility: Electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, charging infrastructure, battery systems, vehicle-to-grid, low-carbon transport, sustainable mobility, and transport electrification.
• Environmental Engineering: Air-pollution control, water and wastewater treatment, soil remediation, sludge management, acid mine drainage, material recovery, environmental process engineering, and remediation technologies.
• Pollution Prevention and Control: Air, water, soil, noise and solid-waste pollution; waste minimization; cleaner production; emission-control technologies; environmental monitoring; and pollution-abatement strategies.
• Waste Management and Circular Economy: Waste segregation, recycling, reuse, reverse logistics, waste-to-energy, industrial symbiosis, resource recovery, circular-economy systems, and sustainable materials management.
• Natural Resource Management: Water, land, forests, minerals, biodiversity, ecosystems, resource conservation, sustainable extraction, community participation, and integrated natural-resource planning.
• Climate Change Science and Impacts: Climate variability, climate-change impacts, extreme events, vulnerability, climate risk, climate resilience, adaptation, mitigation, and climate-energy interactions.
• Climate Change Mitigation: Decarbonization, renewable-energy transition, carbon capture, emissions reduction, energy efficiency, electrification, low-carbon technologies, and net-zero strategies.
• Climate Change Adaptation: Infrastructure resilience, ecosystem-based adaptation, community adaptation, water management, agricultural resilience, disaster preparedness, and adaptation planning.
• Greenhouse-Gas Emissions: Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, fluorinated gases, emissions inventories, source attribution, emission factors, sectoral emissions, and mitigation pathways.
• Carbon Footprint and Carbon Accounting: Organizational, product and institutional carbon footprints; Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions; input-output analysis; hybrid accounting; lifecycle carbon assessment; and carbon reporting. JoEECC has published recent work on LPG-related institutional carbon-footprint assessment.
• Life-Cycle Assessment: Environmental LCA, carbon LCA, energy embodiment, resource depletion, acidification, ozone depletion, impact assessment, product footprints, and sustainability comparisons.
• Carbon Credits and Carbon Markets: Carbon-credit generation, voluntary and compliance markets, carbon offsets, verification, additionality, carbon pricing, allowance systems, market mechanisms, and carbon-market governance.
• Emissions Trading Systems: Cap-and-trade, tradable permits, ETS design, allowance allocation, emissions leakage, sectoral impacts, econometric evaluation, and market performance.
• Carbon Taxes and Environmental Fiscal Policy: Carbon taxation, environmental taxes, green fiscal reform, incentive structures, optimal carbon pricing, policy design, and economic impacts.
• Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage: Carbon capture, transport, utilization, geological storage, mineral carbonation, industrial decarbonization, negative-emission approaches, and carbon-management technologies.
• Industrial Decarbonization: Low-carbon manufacturing, green steel, green cement, process electrification, fuel switching, material efficiency, carbon capture, and industrial energy transitions.
• Sustainable Supply Chains: Green supply chains, carbon-aware logistics, reverse logistics, low-carbon procurement, lifecycle supply-chain assessment, carbon disclosure, and sustainable operations.
• Environmental Economics: Climate economics, environmental valuation, cost-benefit analysis, pollution economics, resource economics, energy markets, carbon pricing, and economic instruments for sustainability.
• Sustainable Development: Sustainable Development Goals, energy access, green growth, just transition, environmental justice, low-carbon development, resource efficiency, and inclusive sustainability.
• Environmental Policy and Governance: Environmental regulation, climate governance, energy governance, environmental licensing, institutional frameworks, policy effectiveness, stakeholder participation, and international environmental agreements.
• Corporate Sustainability and ESG: Corporate environmental performance, sustainability reporting, ESG metrics, CSR, carbon disclosure, climate-risk reporting, green investment, and corporate decarbonization. JoEECC’s 2026 publication list includes work on sustainable business practices and CSR.
• Environmental Justice and Social Dimensions: Climate justice, energy justice, environmental inequality, low-income communities, community participation, public attitudes, behavioural responses, and equitable energy transitions. The journal has published work on clean-energy policy implications for low-income communities.
• Public Perception and Climate Communication: Climate-change awareness, public attitudes, risk perception, environmental literacy, media effects, science communication, behavioural change, and public participation.
• Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure: Green buildings, passive cooling, building energy efficiency, sustainable materials, low-carbon construction, lifecycle impacts, and climate-resilient infrastructure. Recent JoEECC work includes passive-cooling and sustainable-construction studies.
• Sustainable Materials and Resource Efficiency: Engineered bamboo, natural-fiber composites, recycled materials, low-carbon materials, bio-based materials, resource-efficient production, and environmental performance of materials.
• Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: Environmental impact assessment, air and water-quality monitoring, emissions monitoring, ecological indicators, remote sensing, environmental data analytics, and compliance assessment.
• Energy and Environmental Modelling: Integrated assessment models, scenario analysis, multi-criteria decision analysis, decomposition analysis, system dynamics, optimization, and forecasting.
• Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in Energy and Environment: Machine learning, reinforcement learning, big-data analytics, predictive modelling, intelligent energy management, carbon-aware computing, environmental forecasting, and AI-assisted sustainability decision-making. JoEECC’s 2026 output includes carbon-aware autonomous AI systems and quantum-machine-learning-based environmental assessment.
• Emerging Energy and Environmental Technologies: Green hydrogen, advanced biofuels, ocean energy, energy harvesting, smart environmental systems, carbon-aware computing, digital twins, nature-based solutions, and next-generation sustainability technologies.