Carbon leakage and low-carbon performance: Heterogeneity of responsibility perspectives

Yu, Shuxia; Yuan, Xuanyu; Yao, Xinyan; Lei, Ming

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112958

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“…In our reasoning, intentional environmental cost shifting has increased the international division of labour enhancing socio-economic disparities worldwide. Indeed, since the expansion of global value chains occurred in the 1990s, carbon transfer has increased attaining 25-35% of CO 2 emissions embodied in international (intermediate) goods trade [56,57], where developing countries with a low-carbon performance have borne the higher impact of carbon transfer [58]. The ecological-economic decoupling may easily end up as just a regional shift of environmental loads [28,59].…”

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Moral and Institutional Foundations of Sustainable Technological Entrepreneurship

Gambarotto,

Rangone,

Solari

2023

Sustainability

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In this essay, we reflect on the conditions that allow firms to play a leading role in the ecological transition process. The essay starts with an analysis of the technological and economic features of eco-efficient technologies. We argue that they are weak levers for the ecological transition. As eco-efficiency is based on profit-maximising goals, the pace of the transition is unlikely to peak quickly. In fact, this profit motive restrains firms from fully embedding ecological principles in their choices. Some behavioural concerns arise, as rationally bounded firms are likely to pursue uncomplicated and effortless pathways so as to safeguard profits. For instance, firms may pretend to be sustainable, while chasing opportunistic practices such as greenwashing, wokening, and cost shifting. Hence, they cannot lead the ecological transition process. A few consequences derive. First, new moral values must become pivotal criteria in firms’ decision-making processes. Second, such a big challenge must become shared and widely accepted in social discourse, so as to involve all economic actors and trigger a general process of institutional change. These are necessary conditions for the ensuing economic and social provisioning to take care of the limits of the Earth. Finally, we suggest that the teaching of economics must also be concerned with making such a change in mindset successful.

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Moral and Institutional Foundations of Sustainable Technological Entrepreneurship

Gambarotto,

Rangone,

Solari

2023

Sustainability

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“…First, owing to the regional heterogeneity inherent in the power system, substantial variations exist in resource input, power output, and production technology (Han et al, 2020). Neglecting the inherent heterogeneity in investigating CEE within the power system may yield biased evaluation outcomes, thereby hindering the provision of precise decision-making guidance to policymakers (Yu et al, 2022). Second, most scholars have not considered the integer constraints of some indicators, such as integer constraints on employment numbers (Chen et al, 2021a).…”

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Regional differences and improvement potential of carbon emission efficiency in China’s power industry: insights from meta-frontier DEA model considering integer constraints

Huang,

Zhao

2024

Front. Energy Res.

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Previous studies on the carbon emission efficiency (CEE) in the power industry have neglected concerns related to regional heterogeneity and the integer character of certain indicators. In response to these issues, this study proposes a meta-frontier DEA model that integrates integer constraints for evaluating the CEE of China’s provincial power industry from 2011 to 2021. This study also proposes to apply the Theil, technology gap ratio, and inefficiency decomposition indexes to analyze regional disparities, technological gaps, and strategies for enhancing CEE within China’s provincial power industry. The research findings highlight several key points. First, China’s power industry exhibits inefficiencies in CEE. The central region mainly contributes to the overall CEE decline, and approximately 70% of provinces demonstrate an average CEE below 0.70. Second, the technological level of the western region is leading, while that of the central region is the worst. Specifically, Ningxia, Hainan, and Jiangsu have the most advanced production technology levels. Third, substantial disparities in CEE within China’s power industry primarily stem from regional imbalances in development. Fourth, technical inefficiency contributed 68.24% of the CEE in the central region, and management inefficiency contributed 96.91% and 65.42% in the western and eastern regions, respectively. Overall, China’s power industry still has 37% potential for improvement.

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“…Since dumping industrial hazardous waste is illegal, hazardous waste accumulation can be particularly pronounced in less-developed regions lacking advanced technologies and sufficient disposal capacities. Therefore, developing hazardous waste management strategies with the consideration of trade-embodied virtual transfers between different regions may provide a potential path toward hazardous waste minimization in these hotspot regions. , …”

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“…Therefore, developing hazardous waste management strategies with the consideration of trade-embodied virtual transfers between different regions may provide a potential path toward hazardous waste minimization in these hotspot regions. 38 , 39 …”

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Large Virtual Transboundary Hazardous Waste Flows: The Case of China

Liu

Shan

et al. 2023

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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The Basel Convention and prior studies mainly focused on the physical transboundary movements of hazardous waste (transporting waste from one region to another for cheaper disposal). Here, we take China, the world’s largest waste producer, as an example and reveal the virtual hazardous waste flows in trade (outsourcing waste by importing waste-intensive products) by developing a multiregional input–output model. Our model characterizes the impact of international trade between China and 140 economies and China’s interprovincial trade on hazardous waste generated by 161,599 Chinese enterprises. We find that, in 2015, virtual hazardous waste flows in China’s trade reached 26.6 million tons (67% of the national total), of which 31% were generated during the production of goods that were ultimately consumed abroad. Trade-related production is much dirtier than locally consumed production, generating 26% more hazardous waste per unit of GDP. Under the impact of virtual flows, 40% of the waste-intensive production and relevant disposal duty is unequally concentrated in three Chinese provinces (including two least-developed ones, Qinghai and Xinjiang). Our findings imply the importance of expanding the scope of transboundary waste regulations and provide a quantitative basis for introducing consumer responsibilities. This may help relieve waste management burdens in less-developed “waste havens”.

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Carbon leakage and low-carbon performance: Heterogeneity of responsibility perspectives

Cited by 19 publications

References 81 publications

Moral and Institutional Foundations of Sustainable Technological Entrepreneurship

Moral and Institutional Foundations of Sustainable Technological Entrepreneurship

Regional differences and improvement potential of carbon emission efficiency in China’s power industry: insights from meta-frontier DEA model considering integer constraints

Large Virtual Transboundary Hazardous Waste Flows: The Case of China

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