Anil Kumar Verma is the principal editor of the proposed book with expertise in the field of sustainable energy and biorefineries-based application of carbohydrate-active enzymes from lignocellulosic waste. He completed his PhD in May 2015 from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Assam. The PhD thesis work focused on the carbohydrate-active enzyme glucuronoxylan xylanohydrolase from Clostridium thermocellum. After completing his PhD, he received a prestigious DST-SERB National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) grant and joined The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI, New Delhi). He worked as Principal Investigator (PI) on a project, “Molecular cloning, biochemical characterization and structural and functional investigation of novel carbohydrate-active enzymes.” During the N-PDF fellowship, he was selected as an assistant professor at Central University Sikkim, where he teaches industrial microbiology and instrumentation as a course subject. He has supervised 20 MSc dissertations and 3 PhDs (microbiology) are in progress. He has published around 51 publications with a cumulative impact factor of more than 60 in peer-reviewed journals and 435 citations with an h-index of 11.

• 0. Front Matter. 1. Climate Change and Global Warming: Evidence, Causes and Significance Of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes for Its Alleviation. 2. Analyzing the Structural Diversity of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes and Their Functional Role in Various Domains of Life. 3. Nano-CAZymes synergy: A novel prospect. 4. Exploring the various novel sources of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes). 5. Integrating Carbohydrate Active Enzymes in Biorefineries: Pioneering Sustainable Development through Circular Economy. 6. Emerging Roles of Carbohydrate-Active Nanoenzymes in Biomedical Applications. 7. Bioprospection and engineering of lignin and chitin degrading enzymes for industrial applications. 8. Scaling up the Production of Carbohydrate-active Enzymes for Biotechnological Application. 9. Structure, Classes, Databases, and Bioinformatics Tools Associated with Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes. 10. Carbohydrate Active Enzymes Inhibitors: Mechanisms and Mitigation. 11. Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes: Role In Food And Agriculture.