Carbon Accounting, Reporting and Sustainability

Call for Papers
Carbon Accounting, Reporting and Sustainability
Journal: Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
Publisher: Elsevier
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2027

Overview
This special issue focuses on carbon accounting, climate disclosure, and sustainability reporting as climate change and new global standards such as IFRS/ISSB S2 push carbon-related information to the center of corporate reporting. It addresses the growing need for decision-useful, reliable, and comparable disclosure while noting the continuing challenges in measurement, assurance, and accountability.

Scope
The issue encourages rigorous academic inquiry at the intersection of carbon accounting, climate disclosure, and sustainability. It highlights theoretical, empirical, and policy dimensions of carbon accounting and sustainability reporting, with attention to how accounting can shape climate accountability and broader societal impact. The call particularly welcomes work on carbon accounting frameworks, climate and carbon disclosure, GHG assurance and verification, emissions trading, ESG reporting, and the use of AI, FinTech, and blockchain in carbon management. It also includes green finance, corporate finance and climate risk, education and training, and nature and biodiversity accounting.

Submission Information
Manuscripts must follow the journal’s author guidelines and must be original work not under review elsewhere. All submissions will go through the standard double-blind peer review process. Authors should submit through the JAPP online system and select “VSI: Carbon & Sustainability.” The call lists a submission open date of 1 September 2026 and a deadline of 1 March 2027.

Guest Editors

• Qingliang Tang — Professor in accounting, leader of the Carbon Accounting & Sustainability Research Group (CASR), Western Sydney University.

• Paul A. Griffin — Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis; Honorary Professor, University of Otago.

• Albert Tsang — Chair Professor of Accounting, Zhejiang University.

• Laura Luo — Associate Professor, Macquarie University.

• Paolo Perego — Full Professor, Free University of Bolzano.

• Consultant: Professor Roger Simnett — Emeritus Professor of Accounting, UNSW Sydney; Professorial Research Fellow, Deakin University.

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