Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-25DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100120
Woon Leong Lin
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.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-10-22DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100107
Sudeep Parajuli , Jukka Majava , Paivo Kinnunen , Harri Haapasalo , Ron Zevenhoven
Carbon-storing magnesium carbonate produced from large-scale CO2 mineralization captures and stores CO2, presenting a promising solution to mitigate climate change issues. There is a gap between technology development and the development of the industrial ecosystem due to the lack of research on stakeholder analysis. This study aims to bridge the gap by describing the value chain of the carbon-storing magnesium carbonate development project and identifying and analysing key stakeholders, their roles, and requirements using a qualitative research approach and adopting qualitative content analysis method. This study conducts stakeholder analysis through semi-structured interviews with industry stakeholders and research organisations based in Finland. The stakeholders are classified based on their roles, influence along the value chain, and importance. The findings show that research organisations and industry actors are the primary stakeholders in the value chain, while customers, investors, and technology providers are the secondary stakeholders. The findings show that the government is classified as a tertiary stakeholder, and other stakeholders, including media, NGOs, and the public, fall under the extended stakeholders’ group. This study also provides the typologies of stakeholder requirements. The findings highlight the importance of stakeholder analysis in developing a sustainable value chain for carbon-storing magnesium carbonate production. The study offers practical insights for policymakers, industry leaders, research organisations, and other stakeholders looking to align technology development with market needs, facilitating the transition to greener solutions.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100117
Yavuz Selim Balcıoğlu , Abdullah Kürşat Merter , Turhan Karakaya
<div><div>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
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-10DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100114
Behzad Maleki Vishkaei , Esli Spahiu , Pietro De Giovanni
Nowadays, companies are under increasing pressure to adopt social sustainability programs to effectively respond to both stakeholder expectations and new policies. Social sustainability plays a critical role in shaping ethical operations, inclusive workplaces, and long-term corporate legitimacy. However, compared to the environmental aspect, more research is needed to discover new and effective paths for properly embedding social sustainability into business practices. Accordingly, this paper analyses how companies prioritize and assess social sustainability practices, how they integrate such practices into their corporate strategy, and how effectively they communicate the social commitments to the stakeholders. These objectives are pursued by adopting both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and analyzing 208 Italian companies. The findings reveal that companies prioritize five sustainable development goals, specifically: decent work, health and well-being, gender equality, quality education, and reduced inequality. These dimensions are frequently verified through external certifications and awards. At the same time, the integration of social sustainability into the corporate strategy requires several soft skills in addition to adaptability, flexibility, and responsiveness. Moreover, many companies communicate their social sustainability through reports, official websites, and social media, facilitating stakeholder awareness; hence, stakeholders can be effectively engaged through structured surveys, interviews, and meetings. Finally, to ensure credibility and avoid social washing, companies employ internal audits, adopt international standards, and invest in transparency tools to assess their social impact.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-18DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100116
Jie Gao , Markus Lang , Yiyi Jiang
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.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-07-25DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100103
Yimei Man
Sustainability is a global imperative, yet the role of human psychology in shaping progress toward sustainable development remains underexplored. This study investigates the relationship between psychological factors – specifically life satisfaction and happiness – and the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Utilising data from the World Happiness Index (WHI) and the 17 SDGs across 131 countries from 2011 to 2021, this research explores how subjective well-being influences national progress toward sustainable development. Using Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares to address serial correlation and endogeneity, the analysis reveals that higher levels of life satisfaction and happiness are positively associated with progress on socioeconomic sustainable goals, but are insignificantly or negatively correlated with environmental sustainable goals. These findings highlight the dual role of human psychology in advancing sustainable development: while fostering societal well-being drives progress on certain goals, it can pose challenges for environmental objectives. Policymakers should incorporate psychological dimensions into sustainability frameworks to better align human motivations with the achievement of sustainable goals, fostering an approach that balances well-being with environmental stewardship.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-10-11DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100109
Emad Alzubi , Saad Aldarazi , Hanaa Abdul Fattah , Rumeysa Beytekin , Muhammad Fakhruriza Pradana
The transition to circular economy (CE) is essential for addressing global challenges like resource scarcity and climate change. However, measuring circularity is complex due to the need to integrate environmental, economic, and social dimensions. This paper proposes a novel interdisciplinary framework that combines bibliometric analysis and system dynamics (SD) modeling to overcome this challenge. First, a bibliometric analysis of over 350 engineering studies identifies system dynamics as an emerging trend for CE assessment. Building on this, a system dynamics model is developed and applied to electronic waste supply chains, one of the world's fastest-growing waste streams. The model dynamically evaluates four key circularity indicators: carbon footprint, cost reduction index, job creation rate, and virgin material use. The results demonstrate the framework's ability to quantify significant benefits: a potential reduction of 160 million tons of CO2e emissions, a threefold decrease in long-term costs compared to linear systems, and positive net job creation ratio of about 0.01 per ton collected. Furthermore, the framework is explicitly designed to track progress toward key Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 12 (responsible consumption), SDG 8 (decent work), and SDG 13 (climate action). This research provides policymakers and businesses with a robust decision-support tool to simulate long-term impacts, prioritize high-value interventions, and balance trade-offs across sustainability dimensions, offering a actionable pathway toward resource-efficient economies.
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Global warming, primarily driven by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, represents one of the major environmental challenges of our time. Agriculture plays a dual role in this context, as both a significant emitter and a potential carbon sink. Coffee cultivation, spread across more than 70 countries, increasingly demands the integration of productivity and sustainability. While conservation-oriented agricultural practices offer promising mitigation strategies, their application in coffee systems, particularly in key producing countries, remains underexplored. This study aimed to assess and compare greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration between a Conservationist Production System and a Conventional Production System in coffee farming in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. To this end, Life Cycle Assessment was applied, focusing on the Global Warming Potential category. The Conservationist System emitted 1.21 kg CO2-eq per functional unit, significantly lower than the 3.21 kg CO2-eq observed in the Conventional System. Both systems demonstrated negative net carbon balances, confirming their roles as carbon sinks: −560.78 kg CO2-eq for the Conservationist System and −430.86 kg CO2-eq for the Conventional System. Superior performance of the Conservationist System is attributed to practices such as intercropping with Urochloa decumbens and the incorporation of organic residues. These results emphasize the relevance of integrating such practices into sustainable coffee production and highlight their potential contribution to carbon credit mechanisms and environmental certification initiatives.
全球变暖主要是由人为温室气体排放造成的，是我们这个时代面临的主要环境挑战之一。在这种情况下，农业扮演着双重角色，既是一个重要的排放体，也是一个潜在的碳汇。咖啡种植遍布70多个国家，越来越需要将生产力和可持续性结合起来。虽然以保护为导向的农业做法提供了有希望的缓解战略，但它们在咖啡系统中的应用，特别是在主要生产国的应用，仍未得到充分探索。本研究旨在评估和比较巴西米纳斯吉拉斯州咖啡种植中环保生产系统和传统生产系统之间的温室气体排放和碳固存。为此，应用了生命周期评估，重点关注全球变暖潜势类别。环保系统每个功能单元排放1.21 kg co2当量，显著低于传统系统的3.21 kg co2当量。两种系统均表现出负净碳平衡，证实了它们作为碳汇的作用：环保系统为- 560.78 kg co2当量，传统系统为- 430.86 kg co2当量。生态保护系统的优异表现归功于采用卧氯草间作和有机残留物掺入等做法。这些结果强调了将这些做法纳入可持续咖啡生产的相关性，并强调了它们对碳信用机制和环境认证倡议的潜在贡献。
{"title":"Carbon balance in coffee farming: A life cycle case study of conservationist versus conventional systems","authors":"Gabrielli Martinelli , Everton Vogel , Régio Márcio Toesca Gimenes , Carla Eloize Carducci , Daiane Pereira de Souza , Clandio Favarini Ruviaro","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100106","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100106","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global warming, primarily driven by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, represents one of the major environmental challenges of our time. Agriculture plays a dual role in this context, as both a significant emitter and a potential carbon sink. Coffee cultivation, spread across more than 70 countries, increasingly demands the integration of productivity and sustainability. While conservation-oriented agricultural practices offer promising mitigation strategies, their application in coffee systems, particularly in key producing countries, remains underexplored. This study aimed to assess and compare greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration between a Conservationist Production System and a Conventional Production System in coffee farming in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. To this end, Life Cycle Assessment was applied, focusing on the Global Warming Potential category. The Conservationist System emitted 1.21 kg CO<sub>2</sub>-eq per functional unit, significantly lower than the 3.21 kg CO<sub>2</sub>-eq observed in the Conventional System. Both systems demonstrated negative net carbon balances, confirming their roles as carbon sinks: −560.78 kg CO<sub>2</sub>-eq for the Conservationist System and −430.86 kg CO<sub>2</sub>-eq for the Conventional System. Superior performance of the Conservationist System is attributed to practices such as intercropping with <em>Urochloa decumbens</em> and the incorporation of organic residues. These results emphasize the relevance of integrating such practices into sustainable coffee production and highlight their potential contribution to carbon credit mechanisms and environmental certification initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145048754","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}
Forests play a vital role in regulating the global climate, supporting biodiversity, and sustaining the livelihoods of approximately 1.6 billion people. However, unsustainable forest management continues to drive widespread forest loss. Certification schemes such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) evolved to promote sustainable forestry practices, yet evidence of their effectiveness in reducing deforestation and forest degradation remained inconclusive. This study employed generalised additive models to assess whether increased FSC and PEFC certification coverage was associated with reduced permanent and temporary forest loss, using annual data from 2005 to 2019 across more than 113 countries while controlling for other drivers of forest change. No significant association between certification coverage and forest loss reduction was found at the country level. These findings were limited by the lack of publicly available data on certified forests at high spatial resolution and the use of aggregated country-level certification coverage, which might obscure regional (sub-country) effects. Improved transparency and finer-scale data are needed for more definitive assessments of certification's impact. Furthermore, for achieving global goals such as halting deforestation by 2030, additional strategies beyond voluntary certification are needed.
{"title":"Does forest management certification halt forest loss at country level? A global analysis","authors":"Saskia Dröge , Charline Depoorter , Axel Marx , Bart Muys","doi":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100104","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100104","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forests play a vital role in regulating the global climate, supporting biodiversity, and sustaining the livelihoods of approximately 1.6 billion people. However, unsustainable forest management continues to drive widespread forest loss. Certification schemes such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) evolved to promote sustainable forestry practices, yet evidence of their effectiveness in reducing deforestation and forest degradation remained inconclusive. This study employed generalised additive models to assess whether increased FSC and PEFC certification coverage was associated with reduced permanent and temporary forest loss, using annual data from 2005 to 2019 across more than 113 countries while controlling for other drivers of forest change. No significant association between certification coverage and forest loss reduction was found at the country level. These findings were limited by the lack of publicly available data on certified forests at high spatial resolution and the use of aggregated country-level certification coverage, which might obscure regional (sub-country) effects. Improved transparency and finer-scale data are needed for more definitive assessments of certification's impact. Furthermore, for achieving global goals such as halting deforestation by 2030, additional strategies beyond voluntary certification are needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100255,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner Production Letters","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144749797","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}
Pub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1016/j.clpl.2025.100121
Thai-Ngoc Pham
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.
{"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}
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