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  1. International financial support to achieve the net-zero emissions goal could help resolve equity trade-off between developing and developed countries

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, February 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  2. Conflicted public perceptions of different net-zero mitigation pathways between feasibility and desirability

    Article • Communications Sustainability, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  3. Public understanding of net zero: Conflicted perceptions of different mitigation pathways between feasibility and desirability

    Article • August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  4. Starting dialogues on climate change

    Article • Dialogues on Climate Change, March 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  5. Editorial: Carbon dioxide removal: perspectives from the social sciences and humanities

    Article • Frontiers in Climate, October 2024, Frontiers

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  6. The history and future of IPCC special reports: A dual role of politicisation and normalisation

    Article • Climatic Change, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  7. Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia–Pacific countries

    Article • Sustainability Science, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  8. An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal

    Article • Earth System Governance, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  9. Reconsidering the lower end of long-term climate scenarios

    Article • PLOS Climate, November 2023, PLOS

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  10. Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC

    Article • Nature Climate Change, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama, Dr Warren Pearce

  11. Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies

    Article • One Earth, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  12. Normalized injustices in the national energy discourse: A critical analysis of the energy policy framework in Japan through the three tenets of energy justice

    Article • Energy Policy, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  13. Controversies

    Article • December 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  14. Carbon-dependent net-zero emission energy systems without reliance on fossil fuels and bioenergy

    Article • November 2022, Research Square

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  15. Threshold, budget and deadline: beyond the discourse of climate scarcity and control

    Article • Climatic Change, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  16. The Oxymoron of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Escaping Carbon Lock-In and yet Perpetuating the Fossil Status Quo?

    Article • Frontiers in Climate, July 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  17. Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

    Article • Climatic Change, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  18. Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality

    Article • Sustainability Science, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  19. The North–South Divide on Public Perceptions of Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering?: A Survey in Six Asia-Pacific Countries

    Article • Environmental Communication, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  20. Why setting a climate deadline is dangerous

    Article • Nature Climate Change, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama, Dr Warren Pearce

  21. Engineering climate debt: temperature overshoot and peak-shaving as risky subprime mortgage lending

    Article • Climate Policy, June 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama, Mike Hulme

  22. Beyond solutionist science for the Anthropocene: To navigate the contentious atmosphere of solar geoengineering

    Article • The Anthropocene Review, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  23. Solar Geoengineering Governance

    Article • April 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  24. Making sense of climate engineering: a focus group study of lay publics in four countries

    Article • Climatic Change, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama, Lisa Dilling

  25. Selling stories of techno-optimism? The role of narratives on discursive construction of carbon capture and storage in the Japanese media

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, September 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  26. The Asia-Pacific’s role in the emerging solar geoengineering debate

    Article • Climatic Change, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  27. Ambivalent climate of opinions: Tensions and dilemmas in understanding geoengineering experimentation

    Article • Geoforum, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  28. Who Captures the Voice of the Climate? Policy Networks and the Political Role of Media in Australia, France and Japan

    Article • November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  29. Transdisciplinary co-design of scientific research agendas: 40 research questions for socially relevant climate engineering research

    Article • Sustainability Science, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  30. Catastrophism toward ‘opening up’ or ‘closing down’? Going beyond the apocalyptic future and geoengineering

    Article • Current Sociology, December 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  31. Exploring Media Representation of Carbon Capture and Storage: An Analysis of Japanese Newspaper Coverage in 1990-2010

    Article • Energy Procedia, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama

  32. Reconstruction of the boundary between climate science and politics: The IPCC in the Japanese mass media, 1988–2007

    Article • Public Understanding of Science, August 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Shinichiro Asayama