全球碳治理研究脉络与热点追踪

Global Carbon Governance Research and Hot Spot Tracking

摘要

旨在减缓气候变化的全球碳治理使社会经济活动的治理和协调变得日益综合复杂，这对科学研究和政策制定产生了深刻的影响。为理清全球碳治理的研究发展态势，本研究基于WOS（Web of Science）核心数据库，利用文献计量方法和可视化分析软件，首先对2002-2024年全球碳治理研究演化脉络和研究热点进行追踪，最后对中外碳治理体系比较并就未来可能遇到的问题与研究热点进行探讨。结果表明：（1）过去20年来，全球碳治理研究成果发表数量快速增加，可划分为研究框架搭建、新兴领域开拓和研究方向多元化三个阶段，其研究从理论基础到研究方法均呈现出跨学科的特征。（2）已有国际碳治理研究形成了包括治理政策设计优化、生产消费转型升级、碳中和技术研发应用和生态系统碳收支研究等四个领域为主体的研究框架。（3）与国际碳治理体系相比，我国碳治理体系在治理主导力量、碳交易市场建设、区域政策适配和减排责任分担等多方面存在显著差异。未来全球碳治理体系将走向多元化、多平台的治理模式，所面临的问题与挑战也将更为复杂多样，各学科应与时俱进，展开多学科协同创新，围绕碳治理的关键要素与治理机制展开更加综合的研究，以期为实现碳中和目标提供理论依据、技术支撑和决策参考。

Abstract

Global carbon governance aimed at mitigating climate change has made the governance and coordination of socio-economic activities increasingly integrated and complex, which has had a profound impact on scientific research and policy formulation. In order to clarify the research development trend of global carbon governance, this study, based on the core database of WOS (Web of Science), utilizes bibliometric methodology and visualization analysis software to firstly track the research evolution and research hotspots of global carbon governance from 2002-2024, and then finally compares the carbon governance systems of China and foreign countries, and discusses the problems and research hotspots that may be encountered in the future. The results show that: (1) Over the past 20 years, the number of published research results on global carbon governance has increased rapidly, which can be divided into three stages: research framework construction, emerging field development and diversified research directions, and the research is characterized by interdisciplinary research from theoretical foundation to research methodology. (2) The existing international carbon governance research has formed a research framework that includes four main areas, including optimization of governance policy design, transformation and upgrading of production and consumption, R&D and application of carbon-neutral technology, and research on carbon balance of ecosystems. (3) Compared with the international carbon governance system, China's carbon governance system has significant differences in terms of the dominant force in governance, the construction of the carbon trading market, the adaptation of regional policies, and the sharing of emission reduction responsibilities. In the future, the global carbon governance system will move towards a diversified and multi-platform governance mode, and the problems and challenges will become complicated and diverse. Various disciplines should keep abreast of the times, carry out multi-disciplinary synergistic innovations, and carry out a more comprehensive research on the key elements and governance mechanism of carbon governance, with a view to providing theoretical basis, technological support, and decision-making references to realize the goal of carbon neutrality.

关键词

碳治理 / 文献计量 / 知识图谱分析 / 可持续发展

Key words

carbon governance / bibliometrics / knowledge graph analytics / sustainable development

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基金资助

国家自然科学基金(42271193)

国家自然科学基金(41771133)