Does protectionism improve environment of developing countries? A perspective of environmental efficiency assessment

Wang, Qiang; Jiang, Feng; Li, Rongrong; Wang, Xiaowei

doi:10.1016/j.spc.2022.01.011

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“…Liguo et al, 67 concluded that trade openness exacerbates the degradation of the environment in the USA. Wang et al, 68 concluded that global trade increases the global CO 2 emissions by 25%. Wang and Zhang 69 utilized the dataset of 182 nations over the timeline between 1990 and 2015.…”

Section: Trade Openness and Co 2 Emissionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[59][60][61] Conversely, some studies find empirical support to advance that trade openness mitigates the surge in carbon emissions. 63,[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78] To this end, both positive and negative signs are anticipated thus δCO2 δTOP > 0 and δCO2 δTOP < 0. The compounding issues of global warming remain on the upward trend despite the increasing calls towards mitigating it.…”

Section: Theoretical Foundationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Investigating the asymmetric effects of renewable energy-carbon neutrality nexus: Can technological innovation, trade openness, and transport services deliver the target for Germany?

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Energy & Environment

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The present millennium records the most devastating effects of global warming than what was evident in the pre-industrial era. The pervasive effects of global warming have raised concerns about the sustainability of the present and future generations. Hence, researchers are working assiduously towards proffering the most effective method of halting the surging emissions from global, regional, and national angles. This study contributes to the extant literature by providing the first empirical verification of how renewable energy, technological innovations, trade openness, and transport services impact carbon emissions in Germany. The empirical evidence is anchored on annual time series data from 1990 to 2020 estimated using the novel nonlinear ARDL to explore the positive and negative shocks associated with the short and long-run nexus. The wavelet coherence estimator is equally for ascertaining the multiple time scales in the time series and extends the knowledge frontier to the literature. The following findings are eminent from the overall analyses. First, long-run cointegration is supported among the variables of interest Second, only the adverse effects of renewable energy and technology are substantial enough to mitigate carbon emissions. The trade-induced emissions are established with the positive impacts of trade openness on carbon emissions. Transport services contribute significantly to carbon emissions in the long-run and short-run periods. However, mitigating effects of small magnitude are apparent in the long-run due to the perceived transition to green transportation. Policy implications supporting the transition to 100% renewable energy and green transportation are significant steps towards achieving Germany's carbon neutrality target.

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Section: Trade Openness and Co 2 Emissionsmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Foundationmentioning

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Investigating the asymmetric effects of renewable energy-carbon neutrality nexus: Can technological innovation, trade openness, and transport services deliver the target for Germany?

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Awosusi

et al. 2022

Energy & Environment

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“…7,8 Third, decarbonization is closely linked to enhancing the economic competitiveness of China. [9][10][11][12] The government sees low-carbon transition as a key opportunity for shifting the country's low-value-added, highly polluting industries to being driven by technological innovation. 13,14 Finally, the concern for social well-being also drives China's low-carbon transition.…”

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China's renewable energy and energy efficiency policies toward carbon neutrality: A systematic cross-sectoral review

Yang

2023

Energy & Environment

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The ambitious targets of peaking CO2 emissions before 2030 and reaching carbon neutrality before 2060 (Goal 3060) have emerged as the driving force in the development of China's low-carbon energy policy. Adopting a systematic review approach, this article provides a timely analysis of key Chinese renewable energy and energy efficiency policies under Goal 3060 across five sectors: electricity, industry, transportation, buildings, and local governments. In addition, the review identifies challenges to be addressed and offers policy recommendations. There are five main conclusions: (1) expedite the development of market-based and network-based governance systems; (2) pursue the harmonization of policies by avoiding contradiction and fragmentation; (3) develop new policies, especially in the building and transportation sectors; (4) embrace surveillance technologies to improve implementation and compliance; and (5) ensure just transition by implementing policy to reduce the negative socioeconomic impacts on fossil fuels-based communities and workers. This review serves as a useful guide for scholars interested in China's clean and low-carbon energy transition.

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“…In 2007, China’s Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs jointly announced new restrictions on the processing trade aimed at strictly controlling the export of “heavy energy consumption, heavy pollution and resource-related product” products, which were revised and added to in 2009 and 2010. The long-term dynamic relationships between the export trade and energy consumption, carbon emissions, and other pollutants have attracted the attention of numerous scholars around the world [ 2 – 11 ]. The concept of embodied carbon provides a scientific basis for the comprehensive accounting of carbon emissions in trade commodities [ 12 ].…”

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Analysis of the interprovincial embodied carbon flow network of China’s exports

Tang

Zou

2022

PLoS ONE

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We calculate the embodied carbon emissions of China’s through the multiregional input–output (MRIO) method, then we construct the interprovincial embodied carbon flow networks of China’s exports based on the mean threshold, and the application of complex network analysis to conduct a detailed examination of the overall characteristics, key nodes and edges, and community structure of China’s interprovincial embodied carbon flow network. We extended the embodied carbon flow network analysis at the provincial level. The results demonstrated the following: (1) The interprovincial embodied carbon flow network of China’s exports has small-world and scale-free characteristics. The node degree probability distribution curves for the networks obviously conformed to a decreasing power law distribution, indicating that a few industrial sectors carry a large amount of embodied carbon and suggesting that reducing the embodied carbon of China’s exports could yield twice the results with half the effort as long as attention is paid to a few sectors. (2) The key nodes and edges in the networks show that industrial sectors and production chains such as the power and heat production and supply industry, the petroleum processing, coking, and nuclear fuel processing industry, and the metal smelting and calendering industry play the role of key “bridges” in the entire network, among which Guangdong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, and Shanxi are important node provinces and the main flow paths for the generation of embodied carbon in national exports. These industrial sectors and production chains should bolster their policies to encourage the innovation of carbon emission reduction technologies and decrease carbon emissions, so as to reduce the embodied carbon of national exports on a large scale. (3) The number of communities firstly increased then decreased from 2007 to 2017, while the aggregation coefficient of the node and correlation density within first community displayed firstly downward then upward trends, reflecting firstly decentralization then centralization of the interprovincial embodied carbon flow.

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Does protectionism improve environment of developing countries? A perspective of environmental efficiency assessment

Cited by 46 publications

References 69 publications

Investigating the asymmetric effects of renewable energy-carbon neutrality nexus: Can technological innovation, trade openness, and transport services deliver the target for Germany?

Investigating the asymmetric effects of renewable energy-carbon neutrality nexus: Can technological innovation, trade openness, and transport services deliver the target for Germany?

China's renewable energy and energy efficiency policies toward carbon neutrality: A systematic cross-sectoral review

Analysis of the interprovincial embodied carbon flow network of China’s exports

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