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{"title":"Income tax and renewable energy consumption in OECD countries: The influence of digitalization, globalization, and financial development","authors":"Ebaidalla M. Ebaidalla","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100126","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100126","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite extensive investigation into the factors driving the clean energy transition, the impact of income tax on renewable energy consumption (REC) has been overlooked. This study employs a newly compiled tax dataset covering OECD economies from 1990 to 2020 to investigate the influence of income tax on REC. The study also analyzes the moderating effects of digitalization, globalization, and financial development. Applying the Cross-Section Augmented Autoregressive Distributed Lag (CS-ARDL) model, the findings reveal that income tax exerts an adverse long-run effect on REC, indicating that higher income taxes discourage the adoption of renewable energy. Digitalization and globalization have positive and significant impacts on REC, while financial development shows a negative association. Moreover, the findings reveal that digitalization and globalization mitigate the adverse influence of income tax on REC, whereas the moderating effect of financial development is insignificant. Robustness checks using the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) model support these findings. The study recommends that fostering technological advancement and globalization are crucial to enhancing the effectiveness of fiscal policy in accelerating the low-carbon transition across OECD economies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145939332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban mining and resource recovery: Electronic waste management of Information Technology companies and recyclers in Hyderabad, India","authors":"Lavanya Pisipati,&nbsp;Prajna Paramita Mishra","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Information Technology revolution of the current times and the growing demand for newer technology are rapidly depleting the lifespan of electronics, thereby generating massive amounts of E-waste. This makes practices like urban mining essential to prevent countries from incurring economic loss due to unrecovered materials from E-waste. While most developed countries are adopting numerous policies in this regard, developing countries like India still face challenges in fully operationalizing such practices. Thus, it is crucial to understand the underlying issues from the perspectives of various stakeholders involved in it. This study is one such attempt, which focuses on the Information Technology companies and recyclers based in Hyderabad, India, to understand their E-waste management. By engaging with the concerned stakeholders through a primary survey, the study finds that both companies and recyclers are progressing towards the adoption of circular E-waste management practices. In most cases, the companies, dispose of their E-waste by selling it to dismantlers or sending it for refurbishment. The authorised recyclers, on the other hand, are employing urban mining procedures to extract metals and materials from E-waste for further use. However, both stakeholders opine that the prevalence of the informal sector and lack of awareness are barriers to E-waste urban mining. Thus, the study elucidates the need for innovative policies in this regard and subsidizing formal recycling, while also increasing consumer awareness to promote circular E-waste management. The research expands the discussion in this field by incorporating the perspectives of one of the bulk consumers of E-waste, i.e., Information Technology companies, and highlights the practices adopted, barriers, and drivers to safe E-waste management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145798581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enabling environmental education – value hierarchies of sustainability objectives for upper-secondary school","authors":"Johan Miyatani,&nbsp;Charlotta Söderberg","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100122","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100122","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Achieving an environmentally sustainable society and meeting international obligations such as the U.N. Paris Agreement, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the EU Green Deal requires all policy sectors to integrate environmental sustainability. Education, as a sector shaping our citizens of tomorrow, has a critical role in this transition.</div><div>This study explored how sustainability objectives are prioritized within educational policies, using Sweden as a case study to assess the preconditions for effective environmental education in upper-secondary classrooms.</div><div>Applying Environmental Policy Integration as a theoretical framework, the research employs content analysis and crisp set analysis to examine policies governing classroom practices and identify the value hierarchies embedded regarding sustainability. The analysis focuses on the national curriculum (2011) and the syllabi for the eight common subjects in two versions: the 2011 and 2025 revisions.</div><div>Findings revealed that Swedish upper secondary policy predominantly favors the social dimension of sustainability. Environmental priorities present in the national curriculum do not consistently trickle down to subject syllabi, and only the subject of science displayed a principled priority of the environment; although this was only evident in earlier versions of the syllabi.</div><div>This study concludes that for education to meaningfully contribute to a sustainability transition, policies need a stronger environmental emphasis, particularly policies that inform teachers’ everyday work and the exercise of public authority, such as subject grading criteria.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145798618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the impacts of computer reuse for digital inclusion from product information","authors":"Mireia Roura,&nbsp;Leandro Navarro,&nbsp;Roc Meseguer,&nbsp;Sergio Giménez","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100123","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100123","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Computer reuse is promoted as a strategy to reduce environmental impact, create local employment, and provide digital access. However, the development of sustainability indicators to inform policy has remained limited. This is due to the lack of empirical data on device lifespans and regional context, which forces Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) practitioners to rely on generic assumptions that limit the accuracy of impact estimations. This study addressed these gaps by developing an LCA-based calculation criterion designed to integrate multiple parameters using device-level data. The criterion is specifically tailored to provisioning scenarios targeting digitally excluded communities and was partially applied using a Dataset and lifespans of 710 refurbished devices from the eReuse initiative in Spain. Three provisioning scenarios (single user, two users with reuse, two users with new devices) were evaluated for Spain and extrapolated to South Africa and Sweden with contrasting electricity mixes to quantify the influence of energy in use. Reuse proved more advantageous than supplying new devices in terms of GWP per hour of digital access, and a one-at-a-time sensitivity analysis showed that the magnitude of this benefit is highly sensitive to device lifespans and electricity emission factors. Future integration of digital product information into LCA is expected to enhance the precision of sustainability indicators used to inform policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145694809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The quest for more circular battery value chains: Implementing the EU digital battery passport and remaining challenges","authors":"Riccardo Losa ,&nbsp;Stina Torjesen","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100118","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100118","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital technologies have been increasingly adopted to facilitate the adoption of circular economy. A prominent example is the Digital Product Passport (DPP), designed to enhance product sustainability by collecting and disclosing comprehensive lifecycle information. International efforts toward the DPP include systems in the US, EU and China which leverage digital technologies to enhance products traceability, circularity, and sustainability across various industries. A DPP for batteries (DBP - Digital Battery Passport) is currently being implemented under the EU Battery Regulation and is entering into force in the European market in February 2027. Past studies have examined DPPs’ data requirements, principles, and challenges, but few have assessed their effectiveness in fostering circularity, and none have evaluated their role in the development of a circular battery sector in Europe. This study explored whether DBP’s potential circularity benefits are valid or compromised by implementation challenges and practical limitations. 35 industry stakeholders were interviewed, and literature and policy documents reviewed. The findings indicated that the DBP supports the emergence of circular battery value chains and facilitates both re-use and recycling. However, while data for recycling is easier to provide, the information needed for re-use is seen by stakeholders as posing availability and intellectual property challenges. This ties in with additional biases in the EU Battery Regulation that potentially favor recycling (i.e., targets for recycled content and recovered materials). Facilitating recycling over re-use is sub-optimal from an environmental perspective, and the article suggested a set of solutions to the DBP’s challenges, including for the recycling bias.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145623415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing corporate accountability: The role of SDGs disclosure and stakeholder pressure in improving labour and human rights performance in the global automotive industry","authors":"Woon Leong Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100120","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100120","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The global automotive industry faces growing scrutiny over labour and human rights practices amid rising sustainability demands. This study investigates how Sustainable Development Goals-related disclosures influence labour and human rights performance and the moderating role of stakeholder pressure. Using data from international automotive firms (2016–2022) and System Generalized Method of Moments analysis, the findings suggest that comprehensive disclosures are associated with improved performance, but overly focused disclosures may be counterproductive. Stakeholder pressure tends to amplify positive effects from disclosure depth and breadth while exacerbating negative effects from concentration. The study highlights the need for balanced disclosures to boost corporate accountability and ethical practices, offering insights for managers and policymakers to align strategies with sustainability goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing air quality improvements during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: A case for sustainable urban management","authors":"Jie Gao ,&nbsp;Markus Lang ,&nbsp;Yiyi Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100116","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Air pollution remains one of the most pressing environmental challenges facing rapidly urbanizing regions worldwide, threatening public health and sustainable development. Mega-sporting events like the Olympic Games often lead to increased environmental regulation, creating a rare opportunity to implement large-scale air quality management measures. However, whether these short-term interventions result in long-term improvements in urban air quality remains an open question. This study examines whether the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games served as a catalyst for long-term improvements in air quality. Using an event study method, monthly Air Quality Index data were analyzed to estimate pollution levels that would have occurred without the Games, along with a review of policy documents detailing event-specific environmental measures. The findings indicate that air quality significantly improved from March to December 2021, with positive effects lasting up to eight months after the Olympics. These improvements resulted from a combination of targeted emission controls, transition to cleaner energy sources, and strict enforcement measures. The findings indicate that well-designed and consistently enforced environmental policies implemented during mega-events can produce lasting benefits for urban air quality. This study offers valuable insights for policymakers and event organizers aiming to use global sporting events to promote sustainable urban management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145623414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating the SDGs into SMEs: A systematic review of approaches, barriers, and assessment methods","authors":"Hoang Thien Le ,&nbsp;Giulio Pappa ,&nbsp;Nicola Lattanzi","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100119","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100119","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are crucial to national economies but face unique challenges in aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Prior research remains fragmented and largely descriptive, offering limited integration across implementation approaches, barriers, and assessment methods. To bridge the gap, this review offers an integrated synthesis of how SMEs engage with the SDGs, the obstacles they encounter, and how sustainability performance is evaluated. A systematic literature review was carried out under PRISMA guidelines, combining bibliometric mapping and qualitative content analysis of 95 peer-reviewed articles published between 2015 and 2024. Eight major approaches were identified—dominated by <em>innovation-technology adoption</em>, <em>cross-sector collaboration</em>, and <em>stakeholder engagement</em>—while four main barrier categories also synthesized, led by <em>internal and institutional constraints</em>. Furthermore, sustainability performance is most often assessed through the Triple Bottom Line and Key Performance Indicator frameworks, with growing applications of Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental-Social-Governance, and Life Cycle Assessment methods. Building on these findings, this study proposed the Approach–Barrier–Assessment–Fit framework, which aligns strategies, barriers, and assessment choices under contextual fit. The framework contributes to theoretical understanding of SME sustainability transitions and provides practical insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers supporting SDG implementation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing Vietnamese students' intentions to participate in municipal solid waste classification and instruct others on sorting practices","authors":"Thai-Ngoc Pham","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100121","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100121","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal in developing countries remains a critical challenge, constrained by inadequate waste management systems and insufficient financial investment, and reliant to a large extent on active public participation for improvement. Despite growing global attention to sustainable waste management, limited research has examined the psychological and contextual factors shaping individuals' MSW sorting behaviors in developing contexts. This study investigates the antecedents of both classification intention and instruction intention toward MSW sorting among Vietnamese students, who serve as change agents and pioneers within the educational sectors, where institutions are actively developing conditions to support MSW classification. Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the research identifies key drivers including environmental concerns, self-efficacy, subjective norms, government publicity, facilitating conditions, attitude, and perceived environmental responsibility. Data were collected via a structured questionnaire survey with 433 valid responses and analyzed by AMOS version 22. The findings reveal that classification intention is driven by both students’ attitude toward MSW classification (β = 0.252) and perceived environmental responsibility (β = 0.14), while instruction intention is primarily influenced by perceived environmental responsibility (β = 0.368). Additionally, attitude is most strongly shaped by self-efficacy, whereas perceived environmental responsibility is significantly driven by environmental concerns. These insights underscore the instrumental role of the student segment in advancing voluntary MSW policies in Vietnam. The study offers valuable theoretical contributions by clarifying the motivational pathways for classification and instruction intentions and provides practical implications for policymakers and educational administrators aiming to enhance MSW management practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145693432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forest conservation in the climate Era: Examining the environmental Kuznets curve across development pathways","authors":"Yavuz Selim Balcıoğlu ,&nbsp;Abdullah Kürşat Merter ,&nbsp;Turhan Karakaya","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100117","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Global forest area declined by approximately 178 million hectares between 1990 and 2020 despite international conservation commitments. Meanwhile, forests continue to sequester approximately 2.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually while providing essential ecosystem services critical for climate regulation and biodiversity conservation. Traditional Environmental Kuznets Curve models employing income-based development proxies have proven inadequate for capturing the complex interplay between development pathways, renewable energy transitions, and forest conservation outcomes, particularly as nations pursue economic growth while implementing Paris Agreement commitments. This investigation addresses critical theoretical and empirical gaps by reconceptualizing the Environmental Kuznets Curve specifically for forest conservation, demonstrating that contemporary forest dynamics exhibit a modified tripartite pattern contingent upon policy integration and renewable energy transitions rather than following deterministic income-based trajectories predicted by traditional formulations. The research employs a comprehensive panel dataset covering 19 major economies representing diverse development trajectories across high-income developed countries, upper-middle income economies, and lower-middle income countries over the period 2000–2024. The methodological approach consists of three stages including cross-sectional analysis establishing baseline Environmental Kuznets Curve relationships, fixed-effects panel regression examining temporal dynamics while controlling for country-specific heterogeneity, and trajectory classification using cluster analysis to identify distinct development-conservation pathways, with comprehensive robustness checks employing alternative development indicators and sensitivity analysis. The empirical analysis reveals that early development countries with less than 5 tons carbon dioxide per capita exhibit paradoxical forest degradation averaging negative 2.37 percent, middle development countries with 5–12 tons per capita demonstrate optimal conservation performance with positive 1.24 percent forest expansion, and advanced economies with greater than 12 tons per capita achieve modest gains of 0.67 percent. The investigation documents pronounced synergistic relationships between renewable energy deployment and forest conservation with a correlation coefficient of 0.425, whereby forest-gaining nations exhibit renewable energy growth rates averaging 12.4 percent compared to 0.6 percent among forest-losing countries, while China's 5.0 percent forest expansion and India's 2.5 percent gains empirically demonstrate that strategic policy interventions and integrated climate-energy-forest governance frameworks enable countries to transcend deterministic development-environment tradeoffs. These findings necessitate fundamental recalibration of international climate financing toward comprehensive policy frameworks prioritizing ins","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}