Technology Review for Carbon Neutrality (TRCN) is a multidisciplinary, open-access international journal launched in 2025 by Tsinghua University.

Mission:

TRCN is a technology observatory and policy connector for decision-makers in policy, investment, industry, and research – providing macro-level reviews and analysis of the progress, challenges, and solutions for the energy and broader systems transformation toward carbon neutrality.

TRCN is the companion journal of the Tsinghua-led multilateral research collaboration program Carbon Neutrality and Energy System Transformation (CNEST). While closely connected to CNEST, TRCN maintains an independent editorial mandate: to identify and synthesize cutting-edge research and emerging topics that may inform, challenge, or expand the broader clean technology and global transition discourse.

Vision:

A carbon-neutral future achieved through just, technology-enabled systems transformations, guided by integrated evidence and strategic foresight.

Aim:

TRCN publishes concise, macro-level analysis (e.g. reviews, perspectives, research, features) on carbon neutral systems transformations that connects technology, policy, and real-world implementation and translates complexity into clarity and actionable guidance for decision-makers. The journal explicitly excludes narrowly disciplinary or single-technology studies unless they carry clear system-level implications.

What TRCN publishes, and what it does not:

TRCN is a decision-oriented, macro-level review journal. It prioritizes work that:

• Frames problems in terms of system-level advancements, pathways, trade-offs, pragmatic guidance, rather than incremental disciplinary findings
• Speaks to combined academic, industry, and policy audiences with decision relevance.

TRCN does not publish narrowly framed disciplinary studies, single-technology performance reports, or method-development papers, whose primary contribution is to a specialized research community – such work is better suited to disciplinary journals. The exception is when a disciplinary advance has clear, near-term implications for system-level decision-making, in which case the submission must make that connection explicit.

Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University Press