Editorial: Exploration, exploitation, and utilization of coal-measure gas into the future: Volume II

As climate change-being a dire challenge for all mankind-impinges on every continent, the exigencies of reducing greenhouse gas emissions have gained soaring attention around world (Zou et al., 2022). Scientists made strides in understanding pivotality unconventional energies (Bustin and Clarkson, 1998;Zou 2018), particular coal-measure (e.g., coal-bed methane, shale gas, tight sandstone gas), mitigating global warming (Avci 2021). And, great successes been achieved over past decades.The exploration, exploitation utilization concern majors physics, geology, engineering, etc, there are many hot topics presented recently (Dai 2019). Yet less is known about measures to achieve net carbon which entails how identify its occurrence production, determine transformation technologies, examine applicability CO 2 geological storage conditions.