Could China’s long-term low-carbon energy transformation achieve the double dividend effect for the economy and environment?

He, Ling Ling; Wang, Bangpei; Xu, Wanting; Cui, Qi; Chen, Hao

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-17202-1

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“…Overall, gradual energy transition is particularly useful for effectively alleviating the degeneration of the ecological environment, improving energy utilization efficiency, accelerating production efficiency, and jointly realizing a sound environment and rapid economic growth (Wang & Wang, 2020 ; He et al, 2021 ; Ren et al, 2021b ); however, scholars have not directly assessed the underlying impact of energy transition on green growth, especially in China.…”

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Toward China’s green growth through boosting energy transition: the role of energy efficiency

2023

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The primary purpose of this study is to quantitatively evaluate whether low-carbon energy transition has achieved preliminary progress in facilitating China’s green evolution of economy following the provincial dataset. Besides, how improved energy efficiency moderates the influence of energy transition on green growth and the mediation effects are also quantitatively explored. The primary findings insist that low carbonization energy transition is positively associated with green growth, a finding detected by a series of sensitivity checks. Besides, the reciprocal actions between adjusting energy structure and raising energy productivity can effectively strengthen their roles in promoting green growth. In addition, boosting clean energy transition plays an indirect role in green growth by enhancing energy productivity while directly facilitating green growth. Following the three outcomes, this study puts forward some policy implications on enhancing governmental supervision, promoting clean energy evolution, and upgrading ecological protection technologies.

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Toward China’s green growth through boosting energy transition: the role of energy efficiency

2023

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“…A study of environmental taxes implemented in Finland and Malaysia by He, (2019)found that both environmental and social dividends could be realized in the long run. Chinese scholars also argued that the "environmental dividend" and "social dividend" could be achieved within a certain tax rate range (He, 2021;Sun et al, 2021). However, Liu and Zhou (2010) argued that environmental taxes had a negative impact on employment and economic growth.…”

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Environmental protection tax, corporate ESG performance, and green technological innovation

2022

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Environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) performance is an analytical framework for measuring the contribution of enterprises to sustainable development and fulfillment of social responsibility. The introduction of an environmental protection tax in China in 2018, which imposes tax on the pollution emission of enterprises, helps enterprises improve their ESG performance and raise their environmental awareness, thus effectively promoting their green technological innovation to achieve sustainable development. This study examines the effect of China’s environmental protection tax on corporate ESG performance and green technology innovation. The findings showed that the environmental protection tax in China can vastly improve the ESG performance and green technological innovation, with the ESG performance exhibiting a partial mediating effect in promoting corporate green technological innovation. The mediating effect in enhancing ESG performance and green technological innovation varies with the nature of firms’ property rights and regions.

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“…On the one hand, China’s 70-year industrialization has long relied on coal resource consumption and achieved rapid economic growth at a lower cost. But with the increasing constraints on emission reduction, China’s energy structure system will undergo a comprehensive low-carbon transition from coal to clean energy; at that time, the withdrawal of a large amount of fossil energy infrastructure could generate economic impacts (He et al 2022 ; Sun et al 2019 ). At the same time, the traditional energy industry is labor-intensive, and the gradual withdrawal of enterprises may lead to problems such as unemployment, health care and social security, which further aggravates social inequality and hinders the inclusive development of society (Marí-Dell’Olmo et al, 2022 ).…”

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Renewable energy technology innovation and inclusive low-carbon development from the perspective of spatiotemporal consistency

Xin

Hui

Xia

2022

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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As an emerging driving factor, the positive impact of renewable energy technology innovation (RETI) on inclusive low-carbon development (ILCD) may be undervalued or even neglected. This paper develops an evaluation system to measure China’s ILCD by using provincial panel data from 2006 to 2020. Based on the combined perspective of spatial spillover effect and threshold effect, this paper examines the spatial spillover effects and the regional boundary of RETI on ILCD in different periods and further analyzes five heterogeneities. The results show that (1) RETI and ILCD are increasing steadily, presenting a spatial pattern of “high in the east and low in the west.” (2) Overall, RETI significantly promotes ILCD in local and neighboring areas. RETI in the growth period inhibits local ILCD, which in the mature period promotes local and neighboring ILCD. (3) The spatial spillover boundary of the whole RETI is 1400 km, that of RETI in the growth period is 1000 km, and that of RETI in the mature period is 1600 km. (4) The promotion effect of RETI on ILCD enhances over time and shows a spatial pattern of “eastern > central > south > north > western.” It is further found that RETI strongly promotes ILCD in non-resource-based, high marketization, and strong environmental regulation areas. Therefore, it is necessary to break down administrative and market barriers, strengthen inter-regional cooperation and interconnection of resource elements, and establish a dynamic management mechanism of “one province, one policy” according to the regional heterogeneity for providing decision-making reference in promoting global energy transition and climate governance.

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Could China’s long-term low-carbon energy transformation achieve the double dividend effect for the economy and environment?

Cited by 38 publications

References 53 publications

Toward China’s green growth through boosting energy transition: the role of energy efficiency

Toward China’s green growth through boosting energy transition: the role of energy efficiency

Environmental protection tax, corporate ESG performance, and green technological innovation

Renewable energy technology innovation and inclusive low-carbon development from the perspective of spatiotemporal consistency

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