Carbon neutrality approaches in buildings and agriculture sectors

Climate change is a critical global challenge. Carbon neutrality has become a grand and imperative goal to cope with this challenge (Chen et al., 2022; Yang et al., 2022). In the context of carbon neutrality, green policy, green innovation, green behaviors, and green industrial transformation have triggered increasing research interests (Si et al., 2020; 2022; Zhao et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2021; 2023). It is noteworthy that the building sector consumes more than 40% of global energy and accounts for approximately 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions (He et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2021). The building sector is under particularly high pressures to transform its development paths (Zhang et al., 2022). Therefore, this Research Topic is launched to produce a comprehensive reflection of research on carbon neutrality, especially the research related to the transformation of the building sector. The guest editors aim to highlight avenues for new research by capturing the current state-of-the-art in carbon neutrality research and practice and supporting the foundation for future work. This Research Topic welcomed carbon neutralization studies in the field of economics and management and embraces diverse research methods and article types, including systematic literature review, conceptual framework development, analytical and simulation modeling, quantitative and qualitative empirical studies, and other rigorous research. Twelve papers, including this editorial, were finally included in this Research Topic. In the next section, we briefly describe the contributions of these papers.