Clean energy consumption and CO2 emissions: does China reduce some pollution burdens through environmental regulation?

Zhang, Chuan; Cao, Ruoxi; Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Usman, Ahmed

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-21140-x

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“…First, increased government environmental concerns are important signals from the government (Torelli et al, 2020). Some studies have questioned whether environmental regulation is effective and to what extent it has a positive effect (Zhang, Cao, et al, 2022). Our findings suggest that government environmental concerns exert higher legitimacy pressure on firms.…”

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Government environmental concerns and corporate green innovation: Evidence from heavy‐polluting enterprises in China

Chen,

Zhu,

Ding

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The objective of this study is to examine the impact of government environmental concerns on green innovation and whether this has a “leverage effect” or a “crowding‐out effect.” This study employs a two‐way fixed‐effects model to conduct an empirical test using panel data from 2010 to 2020 on Chinese firms listed in heavy‐polluting industries. The results suggest that an increase in government environmental concerns can promote corporate green innovation. However, government environmental concerns primarily stimulate strategic innovation rather than substantive innovation. After a series of robustness and endogeneity tests, the conclusions of this paper still hold. Corporate green innovation induced by government environmental concerns is not the “leverage effect” superimposed on existing innovation activities but the “crowding‐out effect” of other technological innovation. The heterogeneity tests in this paper indicate that the impact is more pronounced for firms with poorer environmental conditions, stronger political connections, and richer executive backgrounds.

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Government environmental concerns and corporate green innovation: Evidence from heavy‐polluting enterprises in China

Chen,

Zhu,

Ding

et al. 2023

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“…The continuous fossil fuel demand may have severe consequences for the environment. In most economies around the world, fossil fuels dominate the energy grid, despite efforts by the global community to increase the portion of renewable energy, augment energy efficiency, and enact energy‐saving legislation (Li et al, 2022; Zhang et al, 2022). Therefore, developed and developing economies should increase their reliance on clean and green technologies to deal with the issue of environmental degradation and reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions.…”

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Green versus conventional growth in the EKC framework of top pollutant footprint countries: Evidence based on advanced panel data techniques

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Green growth has become the most credible solution to deal with the deterioration of the environment and excessive use of natural resources. Many studies have investigated the relationship between conventional economic growth and environmental degradation in Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework. However, in this analysis, we have investigated the EKC hypothesis by including green growth instead of conventional growth. Moreover, we have relied on the ecological footprint to represent environmental degradation in this analysis. Hence, the primary focus of the research is to investigate the association between green economic growth and ecological footprint in the EKC framework of top footprint economies for 1991–2017. The study employed the CS‐ARDL model and other advanced panel data techniques to estimate the model. The analysis confirmed the EKC hypothesis in top ecological footprint economies when we use conventional economic growth; however, the estimated coefficients of green growth and its square are negatively significant. The findings imply that green growth can help reduce the environmental burden, and renewable energy, eco‐innovations, and human capital also support the cause.

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The impact of digitalization on low-carbon transition in China: the moderating role of dual development targets

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2024

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Clean energy consumption and CO2 emissions: does China reduce some pollution burdens through environmental regulation?

Cited by 6 publications

References 60 publications

Government environmental concerns and corporate green innovation: Evidence from heavy‐polluting enterprises in China

Government environmental concerns and corporate green innovation: Evidence from heavy‐polluting enterprises in China

Green versus conventional growth in the EKC framework of top pollutant footprint countries: Evidence based on advanced panel data techniques

The impact of digitalization on low-carbon transition in China: the moderating role of dual development targets

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