Frugal Eco-innovation for Addressing Climate Change in Emerging Countries: Case of Biogas Digester in Indonesia

Abstract

Technological innovation is considered to be one of the key strategies to maintain the global temperature below 2 °C. Since emerging and low-income countries are now responsible for reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the Paris agreement, there is an implied need to balance their development mandate and climate change policies. This chapter highlights frugal eco-innovation as a means of providing basic needs while including the requirement to urgently address climate

A Frugal Eco-Innovation Policy? Ecological Poverty Alleviation in Contemporary China from a Perspective of Eco-Civilization Progress

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The Impact of Proactive Environmental Strategies on Ecological Sustainability of Chinese High-Tech Industry

“…While taking it in the context of China's high-tech industry's gaseous emissions can cause deforestation, and utilizes massive energy and water, which results in an increased contribution to air pollution and waste problems (Agussani & Akrim, 2020;Duke & Osim, 2020). There is a need for the employees or the faculty members in China's tech sectors they should be provoked in lessening the use of those products which are non-recyclable such as oil, petroleum and nuclear energy (Chen & Hu, 2021;Ismail et al, 2021;Voda et al, 2021) (Saladich Nebot, 2019). In contrast, a scarcity of research has been noticed on the role of eco-product innovation, eco-process innovation, and ecoorganizational innovation between PES and ES in China's high-tech sector (Darmawan & Dagamac, 2021).…”

Green Financing and Sustainable Policy for Low Carbon and Energy Saving Initiatives: Turning Educational Institutes of China into Green

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