Enabling low-carbon emissions for sustainable development in Asia and beyond

Lee, Chew Tin; Lim, Jeng Shiun; Fan, Yee Van; Liu, Xia; Fujiwara, Takeshi; Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.110

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“…Moreover, the policymakers should be aware that the existing form of growth in these nations is anti-environment, and therefore, the existing policies might be detrimental for the sustainable development in these nations. Researchers across the globe are trying to spotlight the advantages of renewable energy solutions and disadvantages of fossil fuel-based solutions under the purview of sustainable development, and given the background of N11 and BRICS nations, this aspect might prove to be crucial (Dovì et al, 2009;Abdulrahman and Huisingh, 2018;Lee et al, 2018;Baleta et al, 2019). As the impact of renewable energy consumption has been found to have a positive impact on environmental quality, the policymakers in these nations should strive to put more emphasis on the discovery of alternate energy sources.…”

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Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries

Sinha¹,

Gupta

Shahbaz

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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This study investigates the impact of corruption in public sector on carbon emissions in presence of energy use segregation, following the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework. The study has been carried out for Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) and Next 11 countries over the period of 1990-2017. Along with the finding of inverted N-shaped EKC for both the cases, we find that incidents of corruption enhance environmental degradation by reducing the positive impact of renewable energy consumption on environmental quality, and increasing the negative impact of fossil fuel consumption. This study has also divulged that the corruptive practices are more prone in case of the countries, where the development is mature and institutionalization is more stringent. Based on these findings, we suggest that environmental policies should take account of the corruption, and thereby, making the policies more robust and effective.

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Section: Implications For Theory and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries

Sinha¹,

Gupta

Shahbaz

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

181

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“…Then, the ecological efficiency of 116 Italian provincial capital cities in 2011 was as a case study, and the results show that the proposed index has a good discrimination power. In [13], the negative impacts of the emissions, such as particle matter and other emissions (NO x , O 3 , and SO x ), were of concern on the whole ecosystem. In [14], the main factors affecting CO 2 emissions in energy intensive industries were investigated; the results show that industrial scale and labor productivity are the main factors.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Works [12][13][14] focus on how to reduce harmful gases emissions. However, the issue of optimizing logistics system and improving the contribution to the regional economy needs to be studied.…”

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Measuring Sustainable Development Efficiency of Urban Logistics Industry

Cao

2018

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Logistics plays a basic supporting role in the growth of national economy. However, tail gas, noise, and traffic congestion caused by logistics have a negative impact on the environment. An effective evaluation mechanism for sustainable development of urban logistics industry is necessary. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a common tool for efficiency evaluation. But, DEA has a limited effect on resource allocation in advance because it is ex-post evaluation. It requires input-output indications and the output is after-the-fact data. This defect is particularly prominent in the evaluation of ecological logistics because pollution indicators belong to ex-post output data that threaten the human environment. First prediction and then evaluation is a possible idea. In addition, DEA efficiency ranking does not have a good discrimination due to its coarse granularity. To solve the issues, combining DEA with the Bayes method, we propose an efficiency evaluation model without after-the-fact data, where an efficiency level is predicted and an evaluation value is calculated according to different investment combinations. Then, it is applied to logistics industries of Jiangsu province in China. The results show that our DEA-Bayes method has good discrimination and is easy to operate; a city with geographical advantage and environmental awareness generally gets a higher efficiency score. So the method can help decision makers to allocate resources rationally and further promote the coordinated development of logistics industry.

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“…After Parties signed the Paris Agreement, many scientists conducted studies on vagueness and comparability of INDCs, Pauw et al [16], Seo [17], Winkler et al [18]; the gap between the global target and national contributions, Benveniste et al [19], Höhne et al [20]; and supplies and uses of financial resources under the UNFCCC, Ghezloun et al [21], Zhang and Pan [22]. There were studies assessing the INDCs and evaluating implications of the policies set forth therein on a single country, Djurovic et al [23], Chunark et al [24], Siagian et al [25], Oshiro et al [26], Wu et al [27], Rasiah et al [28], Busby and Shidore [29]; and on multiple countries, Lee et al [30], Liu et al [31]. As the INDCs are considered the first emissions reduction pledges for many developing countries and due to the slightly more binding structure of the Paris Agreement compared with the Kyoto Protocol, INDCs of developing countries have many aspects to study.…”

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Achieving Turkey’s INDC Target: Assessments of NCCAP and INDC Documents and Proposing Conceivable Policies

Alkan¹,

Binatlı²,

Değer³

2018

Sustainability

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In 2015, Turkey submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) before the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP 21), expressing its intention to decrease emissions level at a rate of 21% from business as usual. This emissions reduction target is important as it is the first one for Turkey. However, Turkey faces unemployment problems and needs to sustain its growth. In this study, an Environmentally Extended Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), based on 2012 Input-Output data, was created, emissions reduction potentials of the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) together with the INDC were calculated, and alternative policies to reduce emissions to the target level and to boost the economy were proposed separately. The study finds that both the preparation and implementation of the previous national documents are problematic, and that Turkey was not meticulous about implementation of the climate mitigation policies in the previous national documents. The study also finds that reaching the emissions target with the INDC policies seems impossible and more conceivable policies are needed, and recommends that the INDC target and document itself should be revised substantially.

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Enabling low-carbon emissions for sustainable development in Asia and beyond

Cited by 86 publications

References 69 publications

Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries

Impact of corruption in public sector on environmental quality: Implications for sustainability in BRICS and next 11 countries

Measuring Sustainable Development Efficiency of Urban Logistics Industry

Achieving Turkey’s INDC Target: Assessments of NCCAP and INDC Documents and Proposing Conceivable Policies

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