How does the digital economy accelerate global energy justice? Mechanism discussion and empirical test

Wang, Jianda; Wang, Kun; Dong, Kangyin; Shahbaz, Muhammad

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106315

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“…The explanatory variable is the digital economy (DE). This article draws on existing research on the evaluation of the digital economy, identifies common indicators, and constructs a digital economy indicator system based on fifteen specific indicators from three dimensions: digital infrastructure, digital industry, and digital environment (as shown in Table 2) (Luo et al ., 2022; Wang et al ., 2022; Ren, 2020; Yang and Zhao, 2022; Han et al. , 2022; Chen and Jia, 2020).…”

Section: Research Methods and Index Selectionmentioning

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Research on the impact of digital economic development level on ecological environment

Yang,

Han

2024

JIDE

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PurposeExploring the intrinsic connection between the ecological environment and the digital economy and empirically testing how the level of digital economic development affects the ecological environment. Using the entropy weighting method to analyze the weights of the indicators in the digital economic development level and ecological environment system to explore the factors that have the greatest impact on the ecological environment in the indicator system of the digital economic development level so as to deepen the theoretical understanding of the relationship between the level of development of the digital economy and the ecological environment. Explore the regional heterogeneity of the level of development of the digital economy to promote the healthy development of China’s ecological environment proving the difference in the level of development of the digital economy in the east west and central regions of China and the difference in the effect on the ecological environment.Design/methodology/approachBased on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2013 to 2021 this paper fits the index system of digital economy development level with three factors. A digital infrastructure digital industry and digital application combines environmental pollution and energy consumption to construct ecological environment indicators and explored the impact of digital economy development level on the ecological environment by using the entropy weight method and the random effect model.FindingsThe findings indicate that the degree of digital economic development has a positive and significant impact on promoting the healthy development of the ecological environment, in which the digital industry has the greatest impact on the ecological environment. Meanwhile, the improvement of industrial structure also has a positive effect on the improvement of the ecological environment, whereas the level of human capital inhibits the healthy development of the ecological environment, and the governmental support fails to effectively and significantly promote the improvement of the ecological environment. Furthermore, the empirical research indicates that the level of digital economy development has obvious regional heterogeneity on the healthy development of the ecological environment: the eastern and central regions have a significant effect, while the western region has a less significant effect.Originality/valueAlthough domestic and foreign scholars and experts have conducted sufficient studies on the ecological environment and the development level of digital economy respectively, there are few studies on the empirical analysis of the positive significance and regional heterogeneity of the impact of the development level of digital economy on the ecological environment, which can be supplemented and referred to in this study. At the same time, it also provides intellectual support for our country to achieve high-quality development of digital economy and efficient governance of ecological environment.

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Research on the impact of digital economic development level on ecological environment

Yang,

Han

2024

JIDE

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“…The development of the digital economy with information technology as its core has allowed for the supervision and management of an intelligent environment, which can help solve problems such as declining environmental carrying capacity and resource scarcity (Li et al, 2021). This shows that the development of the digital economy is an important solution for developing clean energy, improving air pollution, and promoting low-carbon development (Wang et al, 2022b). For example, previous studies have argued that digital technologies can help to reduce carbon emissions.…”

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Bilateral impact of digital economy on air pollution: Emissions increase and reduction effects

Wang

Ding

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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China’s rapid industrialization and urbanization have led to ecological and environmental problems, particularly air pollution. Digitalization has become a key component in high-quality development to overcome the previous high-energy and high-pollution development model. However, a certain degree of “green blindness” exists in the digital development process, and the impact on air pollution is not always positive. Therefore, the impact of the digital economy on air pollution is worth exploring. In this study, the authors examines the emissions increase and reduction effect mechanisms of the digital economy on air pollution using panel data in 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2020. The two-tier stochastic frontier model showed that the interaction between the emissions increase effect and emissions reduction effect of the digital economy reduced the actual air pollution emissions level below the frontier level by 0.15%, on average. Overall air pollution level is characterized prominently by emission reduction, owing to the asymmetric bilateral effect of the digital economy. Second, the time trend characteristics of the net effect of the digital economy on air pollution emissions showed a wave-like change; the average values of the net effect in the three major regions (i.e., the east, central, and west) were all negative. Third, along with the development of digital economy, human capital levels, and general economic levels, the emissions reduction effect of the digital economy on air pollution has strengthened, such that the net effect became positive to negative. However, significant heterogeneous characteristics were noted in the effects of the digital economy on air pollution under different levels of digital economy development, human capital, and economic development. This study provides practical paths for air pollution management, strengthening inter-regional environmental synergy management and high-quality economic development.

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“…In addition, the specific economy, society and environment impact on the promotion effect (Lee and Lee 2022 ). Finally, the impact of some policies on GTFP is another topic that scholars pay attention to, such as e-commerce city pilot policy (Cao et al 2021 ) as well as carbon emissions trading (Feng et al 2021 ; Yu et al 2022 ; Li et al 2022a ), smart city (Jiang et al 2021 ; Wang et al 2022d ) and low-carbon city pilot policies, respectively (Chen et al 2021b ).…”

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Towards green economic recovery: how to improve green total factor productivity

Wang

2023

Econ Change Restruct

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Achieving green economic recovery is crucial to improving environmental quality and sustainable development. This study examines the influence of new digital infrastructure on green total factor productivity (GTFP) using panel data from 30 regions in China from 2008 to 2019. The results are as follows: (1) New digital infrastructure has a significant improvement effect on GTFP. After a series of robustness tests, the conclusion is still valid. (2) The improvement effect of new digital infrastructure on GTFP shows significant heterogeneity. In regions with high industrial agglomeration, high environmental regulation and strong government environmental preference, the improvement effect of new digital infrastructure on GTFP is more obvious. (3) New digital infrastructure improves GTFP through green technology innovation and factor allocation optimization. The government should strengthen the fiscal incentives for green technology development while increasing R&D investment in fiscal expenditure, thus promoting green economic recovery.

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How does the digital economy accelerate global energy justice? Mechanism discussion and empirical test

Cited by 53 publications

References 86 publications

Research on the impact of digital economic development level on ecological environment

Research on the impact of digital economic development level on ecological environment

Bilateral impact of digital economy on air pollution: Emissions increase and reduction effects

Towards green economic recovery: how to improve green total factor productivity

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