Climate change and population: An assessment of mortality due to health impacts

Pottier, Antonin; Fleurbaey, Marc; Méjean, Aurélie; Zuber, Stéphane

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106967

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“…Others argue that increased ageing negatively affects EE [60,61]. More scholars believe that population ageing has a catalytic effect on EE [62][63][64], because the deepening of population ageing means that the demographic dividend gradually disappears, prompting enterprises to invest more in human capital and technological innovation for industrial transformation. Thus, the proportion of labour-intensive industries gradually decreases, environmentally friendly industries are ultimately enhanced, and national EE improves.…”

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Sustainability of the Food Industry: Ecological Efficiency and Influencing Mechanism of Carbon Emissions Trading Policy in China

Sheng,

Gao,

Sun

2024

Sustainability

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As an important factor affecting ecological sustainability, the food industry’s ecological efficiency (EE) deserves great attention and control. In 2013, China implemented a carbon emissions trading policy (CETP) to limit carbon emissions from various industries to promote the optimization of the ecological environment. To explore the ecological sustainability of China’s food industry, identify the factors affecting the EE of the food industry, and study the influence heterogeneity and influencing mechanisms, the impact of the CETP on the food industry, which emits high volumes of greenhouse gasses, requires evaluation. Many scholars have studied the policy’s effect from the perspective of EE, but they have ignored the food industry, which is the main carbon emitting sector, and there is a lack of heterogeneity analyses of the influencing factors. This study reviewed the implementation process and characteristics of the CETP in the past decades. Using provincial panel data from 2003 to 2019, this study measured the EE in the food industry through the difference-in-difference model, evaluated the emission reduction and economic effects of the CETP on the food industry, characterized the heterogeneity of the policy’s effectiveness, and analysed its mechanism using three-stage mediating regression. The results showed that (1) the CETP significantly affected the food industry’s EE, which increased by 38.3% on average in experimental provinces compared with non-experimental provinces. (2) For the food industry, the policy’s effect was most significant in the food manufacturing and tobacco subsectors, and these subsectors in the experimental provinces increased by 66.0% and 39.7%, respectively; meanwhile, the policy’s effect was not significant in agriculture and subsidiary food processing and beverage manufacturing. By industrial area, the policy’s effects were significantly higher in the eastern region compared with the central and western regions. The influence on the food industry’s EE in the eastern region was close to 150%, while in the central and western regions, it was not significant. (3) The CETP promoted the food industry’s EE by improving energy consumption structure and technological innovation. The proportion of coal consumption decreased by 6.34% on average, and the technological innovation level increased by 25.1% on average in the experimental provinces’ food industries. The research findings indicate that the CEPT is a good practice and worth spreading. For food industry enterprises with high carbon emissions, attention should be paid to low-carbon transformation through technological upgrading and management optimization. For policymakers, targeted policies are needed to establish a national unified carbon trading market so that the national carbon emissions can be controlled, and the gap between regional carbon emissions can be narrowed.

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Section: Influencing Factorsmentioning

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Sustainability of the Food Industry: Ecological Efficiency and Influencing Mechanism of Carbon Emissions Trading Policy in China

Sheng,

Gao,

Sun

2024

Sustainability

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“…Recently, more and more scholars emphasized the climate politics of developing countries and re-sparked the decade-old debate about climate justice. Accordingly, there is a wide range of evidence highlighting that developing countries have to burden the greatest impacts of climate change, while developed countries carry the greatest responsibility of causing global climate change [44][45][46][47]. Relatedly, studies show that poorer and more vulnerable countries tend to set less ambitious emission reduction targets, while rich and energy-deficient countries are more likely to set aggressive climate policies and ambitious emission reduction targets.…”

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Climate Policy in Developing Countries: Analysis of Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Measures in Egypt

2023

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The Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) refers to a country’s climate action plan to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change hazards. Each country is obliged to submit its NDCs to the UNFCCC, adhering to a guideline for increasing clarity and transparency. Nonetheless, few studies have employed this guideline to assess countries’ contributions, particularly the NDCs of developed countries. Our article centers on the case of The Arab Republic of Egypt (hereafter Egypt), which is extremely susceptible to climate change impacts due to its geographic location and economic structure. Using desk research and a systematic NDC analysis, this paper reviews recent measures Egypt has taken to build national resilience against climate change. We also assess Egypt’s planned mitigation and adaptation measures until 2030, documented in its updated NDC according to four criteria: mitigation ambition level, comprehensiveness, implementation plan, and transparency. The results show that Egypt’s 2022 NDC is more advanced on different fronts than the 2015 submission, focusing on fewer sectors and specific quantified targets for mitigation and adaptation. However, the updated NDC only partially meets the essential criteria for mitigation ambition level, implementability, and transparency. We provide a set of methodological and policy recommendations for improvement.

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“…In recent years, climate change has emerged as a critical global problem (Atsu and Adams, 2021), with anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions as the foremost driving factor behind it (Pottier et al, 2021). The issues arising from climate change have significantly impacted human livelihoods and production.…”

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Has climate change promoted the high-quality development of financial enterprises? Evidence from China

Lyu,

Xiao

2024

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Climate change has become a critical global issue and challenge, with significant implications for financial enterprises as an integral part of economic activities. A thorough analysis of the impact of climate change on the high-quality development of financial enterprises is of great importance for financial sustainability. This paper first conducts an in-depth mathematical analysis of the intrinsic mechanisms through which climate change affects the high-quality development of financial enterprises by establishing a game theory model. Secondly, using data from listed companies for the years 2000–2020, an econometric model is constructed to empirically examine the relationship between climate change and the high-quality development of financial enterprises. The research findings demonstrate that climate change significantly inhibits the high-quality development of financial enterprises, as evidenced by robust results obtained through various methods such as data truncation, variable substitution, and changes in sample periods. Furthermore, this study addresses the endogeneity of the regression model using propensity score matching (PSM), instrumental variable methods, and system generalized method of moments (GMM). Additionally, climate change impacts the high-quality development of financial enterprises through technological innovation. Given the backdrop of climate change, understanding the relationship and logic between climate change and the high-quality development of financial enterprises and discerning the channels and mechanisms through which climate change affects their development are crucial. This research provides a new perspective and expands the research frontier on the high-quality development of financial enterprises, enriching the theoretical foundations in this field.

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Climate change and population: An assessment of mortality due to health impacts

Cited by 13 publications

References 18 publications

Sustainability of the Food Industry: Ecological Efficiency and Influencing Mechanism of Carbon Emissions Trading Policy in China

Sustainability of the Food Industry: Ecological Efficiency and Influencing Mechanism of Carbon Emissions Trading Policy in China

Climate Policy in Developing Countries: Analysis of Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Measures in Egypt

Has climate change promoted the high-quality development of financial enterprises? Evidence from China

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