Decarbonizing residential buildings in the developing world: Historical cases from China

Recently, core enterprises are compelled to invest in the environmental responsibility of upstream suppliers, since their brand image and market share will be significantly impacted when suppliers fail to comply with environmental regulations. However, the effectiveness of the core enterprises’ investment efficiency is limited by insufficient environmental knowledge. Although cooperating with the knowledge-advantaged environmental non-governmental organization (ENGO) may be an effective solution, we observe from the recent examples that not all core enterprises are willing to cooperate in a competitive market. Within this context, we develop a theoretical model to investigate whether competitive core enterprises can benefit from cooperating with the knowledge-advantaged ENGO to motivate the supplier’s environmental responsibility. Our results show that cooperation incentivizes core enterprises’ investments in the supplier’s environmental responsibility, which in turn motivates better environmental responsibility of the supplier. However, we illustrate that cooperation is not necessarily the optimal strategy for core enterprises in the duopoly scenario. Specifically, as the knowledge absorption ability increases, a core enterprise may free-ride on another’s investment, shifting its strategic preference from cooperating to not cooperating. In addition, competition may stimulate the core enterprises’ investments and cooperation motivation, thus improving the total environmental effort and supply chain members’ profits. Our findings provide insights into the competitive core enterprises’ strategic choice regarding suppliers’ environmental responsibility management.

Section: Motivate Supplier Environmental Responsibility By Core Enter...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cooperate or not with knowledge-advantaged ENGO: Motivating supplier environmental responsibility of competitive core enterprises

Meng

Jiang

Jian

2022

“…Zhang et al (2022) compared the decarbonization potential of China and the United States, currently the world's two largest carbon emitters, and found that technological innovation is significant for achieving carbon neutrality goals. Yan et al (2022) compared the importance of different stages of regulatory regimes for achieving energy conservation and emission reduction based on the actual situation in China. Xiang et al (2022a) found that higher levels of public participation will help achieve low-carbon goals.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Incineration or pulverization? Evolutionary game model of management of nematode-infected pine wood in China in the carbon neutrality context

Wen

Gu²,

Qi³

et al. 2022

The rapid spread of pine wilt disease has become a major crisis with regard to forest ecological security. Against the background of China’s concerted effort to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, balancing economic and environmental costs during the environmentally sound treatment of nematode-infected pine wood is an issue worthy of attention. In this study, we constructed an evolutionary game model of the central government, local governments, and infected wood management-related enterprises and analyzed the evolutionary process of the three parties with stable strategies based on a full consideration of actual circumstances. To verify the theoretical results, we conducted numerical simulations using MATLAB. The results of the study are as follows. 1) The central government plays a decisive role in how infected wood is handled. The greater the degree of regulation is, the greater the local government favors low carbon emissions and the more companies will choose the pulverization method. 2) Local governments bear the main responsibility in the processing of infected wood, and only when local governments are sufficiently penalized will enterprises choose to pulverize the wood and dispose of it. 3) Policy subsidies are an effective measure that will help the three parties in the model reach a balance more quickly. Overall, this study clarified the realization path of low-carbon treatment of nematode-infected pine wood from a policy perspective. The study results should help promote the low-carbon treatment of nematode-infected pine wood and provide a basis for the formulation of relevant forestry policies in the context of carbon neutrality.

“…Environmental changes have prompted scholars to focus on carbon emissions, and many studies on carbon emissions have been conducted (Adebayo, et al, 2022;Shah, et al, 2022;Liu, et al, 2022;Tang, et al, 2022). Through numerous studies, it has been found that there is a consistency between economic growth rates and carbon emission growth rates (Zhao B et al, 2022), with urbanization and urban sprawl driving an increase in transportation, construction, and industrial spending, thus contributing to an increase in carbon emissions (Cheng and Hu, 2022;Yan, et al, 2022).…”

Section: Research On Carbon Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The carbon effects of the evolution of node status in the world trade network

Tang

Kong²,

Wang

et al. 2022

Trade has contributed to economic development and has brought countries or regions of the world closer together, but it has also had a significant impact on the global environment, particularly in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. Does an increase in a country’s trade necessarily contribute to an increase in its carbon emissions? This paper examines the impact of changes in the position of major countries in the world trade network on their carbon emission levels. In terms of research methodology, this paper achieves an innovation by adopting a complex network approach to analyze the structural characteristics of the trade relationship networks of major countries or regions in the world, providing a new perspective for the study of the relationship between trade development and carbon emissions. The results of the study show that: trade relations among countries are relatively stable from 2000 to 2020, trade ties among members of regional integration organizations are increasing, the top ten countries in terms of importance are mainly developed countries, and China has very close trade relations with most countries. Based on the analysis of structural characteristics, the impact of changes in the network status of each country on its ocarbon emissions is analyzed, using indicators such as the degree centrality of each node as the independent variable and its domestic carbon emission level as the dependent variable. It is found that developed countries have a significant positive impact on in-going degree centrality, and insignificant impact on out-going degree centrality and betweenness centrality. In contrast, developing countries have a significant positive impact on out-going degree centrality and a negative impact on carbon emissions by betweenness centrality, and this conclusion tells us that not all export growth will contribute to higher levels of carbon emissions in the country. Eigenvector centrality has a negative effect on carbon emissions for both developing and developed countries, and closeness to centrality has no effect on carbon emissions while closeness centrality has no effect on carbon emissions. The results of this study again show that the influence of developed countries is greater than that of developing countries on carbon emissions; therefore, the role of developed countries can be taken into account in subsequent studies on carbon emission reduction.