Following the Paris Climate Agreement (COP26), many governments have prioritized achieving zero carbon or carbon neutrality. However, traditional operational practices won’t permit businesses to tackle climate change issues, warranting organizational leaders to capitalize on the novel, eco-friendly operational tools and techniques. The current study examines the role of renewable energy output (REO), green technological innovation (GTI), and financial development (FD) in the carbon emission level of the four emerging Asian nations from 2010 to 2021. The study used the cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lags by employing a dynamic common correlated effects estimator to address the cross-sectional dependence problem, endogeneity, non-stationarity, and slope heterogeneity. The cross-section dependence, panel unit root, and augmented mean group tests corroborated the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis's accuracy for emerging economies in zero carbon. It proves that the REO, GTI, and FD significantly reduce carbon emissions and strengthen national capabilities to achieve the carbon neutrality goal. The findings suggest that capitalizing on and strengthening these factors and increasing investment in green recovery projects would assist nations in attaining a sustainable environment and reducing sectoral risks and carbon emissions for a sustainable and carbon–neutral society.