Club convergence and clustering of U.S. energy-related CO 2 emissions

Burnett, J. Wesley

doi:10.1016/j.reseneeco.2016.09.001

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“…Several previous studies present evidence on CO 2 convergence, and overall this work can be divided into two main categories: (a) a relatively rich empirical literature investigating convergence of CO 2 emissions among countries worldwide has emerged (see Pettersson et al, 2014 for a recent literature review); and (b) a more limited set of studies addressing CO 2 convergence across regions (e.g., Aldy, 2007;Baldwin and Sue Wing, 2013;Burnett, 2013;Huang and Meng, 2013;Zhao, 2014) as well as across sectors (e.g., Moutinho et al, 2014;Wang and Zhang, 2014) in one single country. The latter category has a strong emphasis on China and the USA.…”

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Convergence of carbon dioxide performance across Swedish industrial sectors: An environmental index approach

2015

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Keywords: Convergence Carbon dioxide emission intensity Industry SwedenThe overall objective of the paper is to analyze convergence of CO 2 emission intensity across manufacturing sectors in Sweden. Our approach differs from previous work on carbon convergence in that it employs a theoretical framework to construct a CO 2 performance index, which explicitly takes into account that industrial firms produce good as well as bad outputs. This index is then used as the dependent variable in a growth-type regression equation. We employ a data set covering 14 industrial sectors over the time period 1990-2008. The results suggest the presence of conditional β-convergence in CO 2 performance among the industrial sectors in Sweden. Moreover, the speed of convergence varies significantly in the sense that the higher the capital intensity is, the lower is the convergence rate to the different steady states. This is likely to reflect the importance of -and in part the costs associated with -capital turnover to achieve a transition towards lower CO 2 emission paths.

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Convergence of carbon dioxide performance across Swedish industrial sectors: An environmental index approach

2015

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“…We contribute to the existing literature by comparing productivity levels and developments among OMS and NMS using farm-level data, which provide the most comprehensive indicator of productivity. According to Timmer et al (2010) a coherent 2 Club Convergence occurs when different, clubs or groups of countries with similar growth trajectories can be observed (Burnett, 2013). cross-country comparison should be based on relative levels.…”

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“… Club Convergence occurs when different, clubs or groups of countries with similar growth trajectories can be observed (Burnett, ). …”

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Catching Up or Falling Behind in European Agriculture: The Case of Milk Production

Čechura¹,

Grau²,

Hockmann³

et al. 2016

J Agricultural Economics

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The paper explores and analyses the catching up and falling behind processes in the European dairy sector over the period 2004–2011, using a stochastic metafrontier multiple output distance function for 24 EU Member States. The metafrontier estimates reveal considerable productivity differences in milk production across the EU at the regional (NUTS‐2) level. Milk yield per cow is the highest in the old Member States, especially in those regions located in the northwest of the EU, while the lowest productivity is observed in Eastern Europe. The same structure was found for both the TFP (Total Factor Productivity) levels and TFP growth. Moreover, the results for technical change suggest that farm sizes are not optimal in many regions in Central and Eastern Europe from a dynamic perspective. The comparative analysis suggests that in the new compared to the old Member States, fewer farms could benefit from the movement of the frontier. Moreover, there are no signs that poorly performing farms are catching up with the best performing farms in the EU regions/countries.

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“…Herrerias [20] utilized the distribution dynamics approach to analyze the convergence of CO 2 emissions per capita among the EU-25 countries between 1920 and 2007 and found that the convergence patterns differ strongly before and after World War II. Burnett [21] utilized the two-stage procedure to examine the convergence of the states in the U.S. and obtained the conclusion that 26 states converged to a unique steady-state equilibrium. Yang et al [22] examined the SO 2 geographical distributions in 113 main cities of China and found that the cities located in the north of the country are heavily polluted, while cities with low pollution levels mainly agglomerate in the south.…”

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The Convergence of Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) Emissions Per Capita in China

Zhang

Zhao

2020

Sustainability

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As the third-largest SO 2 emitter in the world, China is facing mounting domestic and external pressure to tackle the increasingly serious SO 2 pollution. Figuring out the convergence and persistence of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions matters much for environmental policymakers in China. This study mainly utilizes the Fourier quantile unit root test to survey the convergence of the SO 2 emissions per capita in 74 cities of China during the period of December 2014 to June 2019, by conducting five traditional unit root tests and a quantile root unit test as a comparative analysis. The empirical results indicate that the SO 2 emissions per capita in 72 out of 74 cities in China are convergent in the sample period. The results also suggest that the unit root behavior of the SO 2 emissions per capita in these cities is asymmetrically persistent at different quantiles. For the cities with the convergent SO 2 emissions, the government should consider the asymmetric mean-reverting pattern of SO 2 emissions when implementing environmental protection policies at different stages. For Hefei and Nanjing, the local governments need to enact stricter environmental protection policies to control the emission of sulfur dioxide.Keywords: SO 2 emissions per capita; quantile unit root test; Fourier quantile unit root test; mean-reverting property Despite the initial achievement, SO 2 emissions in China still surpass the sum of the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the U.S. [1]. According to the statistics in China Statistical Yearbook (2019), by the year 2018, in China's total energy consumption, the share of fossil energy (including coal, crude oil, and natural gas) has remained above 85%, while the share of renewable energy (including hydropower, nuclear power, and wind power) has been below 15%. More specifically, in the year 2018, the consumption of coal represents 59% of the total level of energy consumption in China, which leads to the fact that the SO 2 emissions per capita have continuously increased. As the third-largest SO 2 emitter in the world, China is facing mounting domestic and external pressure to tackle the increasingly serious SO 2 pollution.High SO 2 emission is a tremendous threat to the environment change. It is one of the most important on-going anxieties for both emerging countries and developed countries. As a typical traditional contaminant, SO 2 brings many adverse effects to the human body, such as breathing difficulty, pulmonary edema, eye irritation, asthma attacks, cardiopulmonary diseases [2][3][4]. Meanwhile, SO 2 has considerable negative impacts on the ecological environment. For example, a high concentration of SO 2 will change the potential of hydrogen (pH) value of plants, which will lead to agricultural production reduction and forest death. Wei et al. [5] found that in 899 Chinese counties, the estimated cost of agricultural losses induced by SO 2 air pollution reached USD 1.43 billion. According to the data from the Ministry of Ecology and Envir...

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Club convergence and clustering of U.S. energy-related CO 2 emissions

Cited by 105 publications

References 45 publications

Convergence of carbon dioxide performance across Swedish industrial sectors: An environmental index approach

Convergence of carbon dioxide performance across Swedish industrial sectors: An environmental index approach

Catching Up or Falling Behind in European Agriculture: The Case of Milk Production

The Convergence of Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) Emissions Per Capita in China

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