Energy efficiency and Jevons' paradox in OECD countries: policy implications leading toward sustainable development

Ponce, Pablo; Irshad, Ateeq ur Rehman; Tanveer, Muhammad; Ponce, Katerine; Khan, Abdul Rehman

doi:10.1007/s13202-022-01478-1

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“…However, as shown in columns ( 8) and ( 9), the estimated coefficients of foreign direct investment (FDI) are not significant, which illustrates that the green development effect of attracting foreign investment does not support that, and although hosting sports events can attract foreign investment, it does not achieve the green and low-carbon development. After reviewing the literature (Baron and Kenny, 1986;Hille et al, 2019;Pan et al, 2020;Yu et al, 2022b), we concluded that a possible explanation is that there are both inhibitory and promotional effects of FDI on the environment in China. The inhibitory effect is mostly realized through the investment scale of FDI, while the promotional effect is realized by technological upgrading.…”

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“…Particularly in the context of the prevalence of COVID-19, according to the report of the World Bank, blockade and other measures taken by countries will affect the pace of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 7), including renewable energy and energy efficiency. However, these human activities may lead to energy consumption and severely affect the ecosystem (Yu et al, 2022b;Ke et al, 2022), thus hindering sustainable economic development (Huo et al, 2022). So, the current environmental problems have become an urgent and important topic.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Green and Low-Carbon Development Effect of Comprehensive Sports Events: A Quasi-Natural Experiment From China

Zhang

Wu²

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Large-scale sports events can improve public environmental awareness, strengthen urban governance, and push green innovation. However, it may also increase the burden on infrastructure, cause energy consumption, and lead to some pollution. Using the panel data of 278 cities in China from 2006 to 2019, this study systematically discusses how comprehensive sports events affect the green and low-carbon development of Chinese cities. First, the green total factor productivity and carbon emission efficiency calculated by the SBM-DEA model are taken as proxy variables of green and low-carbon development. And then, the spatial difference-in-differences (SDID) model is used to undertake empirical analysis and further test the impact mechanism and heterogeneity. Four main results are derived from this study: 1) the hosting of comprehensive sports events can significantly enhance the green and low-carbon development of cities. This result is still valid after a whole string of robustness tests; 2) comprehensive sports events have a significant positive spatial spillover effect on the green and low-carbon development of adjacent cities; 3) the mechanism analysis shows that comprehensive sports events can encourage green development of cities through technological innovation, sports industry development, and foreign investment, but through foreign investment, sports events cannot significantly affect the green total factor productivity and carbon emission efficiency of host cities; and 4) heterogeneity exists between the city rank and the event level. The promotional effect of comprehensive sports events on cities’ green and low-carbon development is more significant in first-tier cities and for international events.

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The Green and Low-Carbon Development Effect of Comprehensive Sports Events: A Quasi-Natural Experiment From China

Zhang

Wu²

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…In the context of the challenge of sustainable development (Yu et al 2022a , b ) analyse energy consumption in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries. The authors apply nonlinear methods and point out the Jevons' paradox in these countries.…”

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“…An interesting approach is the one which analyses the correlation between crude oil imports, renewable energy, transport services, trade, industrial value-added, and patents (Yu et al 2022a , b ). The analysis covers the German economy from 1990 to 2020.…”

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Was the European oil industry prepared for the current global crisis?

Ionescu

Zlati

Antohi

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J Petrol Explor Prod Technol

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The paper focuses on the impact of the complex global crisis on the European oil industry. The main objective of the research is to define, implement and validate a model able to quantify the developments and risks faced by this industry at European level. In order to achieve this objective, dynamic statistical analysis takes into account specific indicators of production, demand and actual consumption over a significant period of time. Special attention is given to the impact of the pandemic on this industry. The analysis takes into consideration the latest official statistical data and is connected to the most important global trends in the oil industry. The main result of this scientific approach is the building of a pertinent instrument/model able to assist the decision-makers in calibrating the European oil industry to global market requirements and developments. By using this tool, key elements of energy policy can be identified that can bring valuable clarifications in the context of the industry's new orientations towards green energy and the reduction of polluting fuels.

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“…The environmental pollution has become an essential threat to the global environment (Jt et al, 2022). Energy consumption is defined as one of the main determinants of environmental degradation (Yu et al, 2022b). Cities play an important role in China's low carbon development, as urban and industrial development consumes large amounts of energy (Liu Y. et al, 2022).…”

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The impact of the low-carbon city pilot policy on green innovation in firms

Pei

Wang²

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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To achieve China’s 2030 target for reducing greenhouse gases, the government has implemented a low-carbon pilot city policy. One goal of this policy is to promote the green transformation of local firms; as such, this paper focuses on how the policy influences green innovation among firms. The study analyzed data on the number of green patents held by industrial firms listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges in China for the 2007–2017 period. This enabled an investigation of green innovation activity after implementation of the low-carbon pilot city policy, using a Differences-in-Differences model. We found that the low-carbon pilot cities policy has a significant impact on applications for green patents. The relationship is stronger for private owned firms compared to State-owned firms. The direction of the effect was mainly due to green utility patent applications by private owned firms. State-owned firms have strong path dependence and are protected by local governments, so they are less constrained by low-carbon pilot city policies, which makes it difficult for them to improve the green innovation of State-owned firms. Firms in a monopoly position have more motivation to pursue green innovations than firms in competitive settings. Because green innovations have double positive externalities and require cooperation between multiple departments, they are associated with higher risk levels compared to nongreen innovations. It is difficult for firms in highly competitive industries to continuously invest many resources in green environmental R&D. This study provides important data supporting the basis of low-carbon pilot city policy implementation.

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Energy efficiency and Jevons' paradox in OECD countries: policy implications leading toward sustainable development

Cited by 23 publications

References 95 publications

The Green and Low-Carbon Development Effect of Comprehensive Sports Events: A Quasi-Natural Experiment From China

The Green and Low-Carbon Development Effect of Comprehensive Sports Events: A Quasi-Natural Experiment From China

Was the European oil industry prepared for the current global crisis?

The impact of the low-carbon city pilot policy on green innovation in firms

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