Open Access

This is a Gold Open Access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

License & Copyright

The Green and Low Carbon Economy applies the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license to published articles. Under this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their content, but they allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content as long as the original authors and source are cited. Appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article.

Article Processing Charge

All articles published in the Green and Low Carbon Economy are published in Gold Open Access. 

The journal is currently free to the authors, and all Article Processing Charges (APCs) are waived until the end of 2023.