Impacts of Clean Energy Substitution for Polluting Fossil-Fuels in Terminal Energy Consumption on the Economy and Environment in China

Chen, Hao; He, Ling Ling; Chen, Jiachuan; Yuan, Bo; Huang, Teng; Cui, Qi

doi:10.3390/su11226419

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“…In this study, a multi-region, multi-sector CGE model (GTAP-E), developed at Purdue University, USA [77], was used to assess the impact of the US-Iran tension on Chinese energy security and economic growth. With a long history of systematic improvements, the GTAP-E model has been widely used to analyze the effects of changes in energy production, international trade and climate [78][79][80][81]. There is an emerging body of literature that employs global CGE models, including the GTAP model, to study the impacts of the international conflict [49,82,83].…”

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How Do International Conflicts Impact China’s Energy Security and Economic Growth? A Case Study of the US Economic Sanctions on Iran

Cui

2021

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International conflicts cause global energy price fluctuations and supply disruptions, which can threaten energy security and economic growth in energy-importing countries, including China. However, the implications and impact mechanisms of international conflicts on the energy security and economy of oil-importing countries have been poorly explored. Using US economic sanctions on Iran as a case, a global energy-extended computable general equilibrium model, GTAP-E, is employed to assess the impacts of international conflicts on China’s energy production, trade and supply, sectoral outputs, and economic growth. The results indicate that the USA–Iran tension would threaten China’s energy security, mainly due to the instability of the energy supply and the consequent upsurge of energy prices. However, if increased oil exports from other Persian Gulf countries compensate for the global oil supply shortages, China’s energy supply would be generally assured. Moreover, because of the close energy cooperation links between Iran and China, the sanctions could decrease the Chinese outputs of non-energy sectors and economic growth. Nevertheless, compared with sole-sanction situations, the results from a possible USA–Iran tension escalation, going as far as Iran’s closure of the Hormuz Strait, could pose a more serious risk to China’s energy security and economic growth.

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How Do International Conflicts Impact China’s Energy Security and Economic Growth? A Case Study of the US Economic Sanctions on Iran

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2021

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“…"Carbon lock-in" was first proposed by Unruh [10], who pointed out that once the carbon-based technology trapped in fossil energy is stable, under the positive feedback of increasing returns to scale, the stakeholders develop the system around high-carbon technology, thus gradually forming a "techno-institutional complex" (TIC). In addition, Unruh [11] further pointed out that the carbon-based technology is locked in fossil energy due to the path dependence formed by the interaction with the system, thus strengthening the carbon lock-in [12,13]. For the high-carbon manufacturing industry, due to industry attribute factors, its production activities rely on the deep processing of mineral resources.…”

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Analysis of China’s Manufacturing Industry Carbon Lock-In and Its Influencing Factors

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There are industry lock-in and regional lock-in phenomena in China's manufacturing industry carbon emissions. However, the existing researches often focus on global carbon emissions, which is not adverse to finding the main problems of manufacturing industry carbon emissions. The biggest contributions of this study are the identification of the industry lock-in and regional lock-in of China's manufacturing industry and the finding of the regional factors that affect the carbon lock-in of the manufacturing industry, which points out the direction for the low-carbon transformation of the local manufacturing industry. This paper is based on the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) carbon emissions coefficient method and energy consumption data from 2000 to 2016 to count the manufacturing industry carbon emissions of 30 provinces in China (except Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Tibet). On this basis, the paper uses a spatial-temporal geographical weighted regression (GTWR) model to analysis the regional influencing factors of the high-carbon manufacturing industry. Results demonstrate that China's high-carbon manufacturing industry mainly concentrates on the ferrous metal processing industry, non-metallic mineral manufacturing industry and other sectors. In addition, the carbon emissions of high-carbon manufacturing industries are mainly concentrated in Bohai Bay and the North China Plain. The industrial structure and economic scale are the main reasons for the regional carbon lock-in of the high-carbon manufacturing industry, and the strength of the lock-in has continued to increase. Resource endowment is a stable factor of carbon lock-in in high-carbon regions. Technological progress helps to unlock carbon, while foreign direct investment results in the enhancement of carbon regional lock-in. This study focuses on the regional factors of carbon lock-in in the manufacturing industry, hoping to provide decision support for the green development of China's manufacturing industry.

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“…Furthermore, since cleaner production has certain advantages [8], the regional clean production technology and the completeness of infrastructure significantly affect the improvement of the economy with lower emissions driven by the energy consumption transformation. Specifically, in regions with a high level of cleaner production, companies can learn from experience to improve significant production and processing technology, lay the technical groundwork for the production and rational utilization of new energy, reduce resistance to energy transition and accelerate the process of the regional energy transition, thus improving the low-carbon effect of energy consumption transformation.…”

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Energy Consumption Transformation, Cleaner Production, and Regional Carbon Productivity in China: Evidence Based on a Panel Threshold Model

Ding

Han

2021

IEEE Access

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It has become an urgent issue for all countries to ease the sharp conflict between economic growth and ecological conservation. The fundamental way to achieve low-carbon economic growth is to make the energy consumption structure upgrade and develop towards a cleaner direction. Standing at the point of clean production, this study empirically analyses the nonlinear mechanism of the transformation of energy consumption structure on China's regional carbon productivity by using the threshold model based on the inter-provincial data from 2009 to 2017 (30 provinces in China). The research shows that there are significant differences in cleaner production levels in different parts of China. In contrast, the cleaner production capacity in most regions has been significantly improved during the sample period. It shows the energy consumption structure transformation has a remarkable double threshold effect on regional carbon productivity in China. While clean production keeps crossing the threshold value, the effect direction of energy consumption transformation on regional carbon productivity changes from negative to positive, with both the coefficient value and significance increasing. According to the research results, the paper focuses on adjusting energy resource consumption and improving the clean production level. Eventually, some policy inspirations are proposed for the lower emissions and sustainable process of the Chinese economy.INDEX TERMS Energy consumption transformation, cleaner production, regional carbon productivity, threshold model, heterogeneity, china.

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Impacts of Clean Energy Substitution for Polluting Fossil-Fuels in Terminal Energy Consumption on the Economy and Environment in China

Cited by 33 publications

References 39 publications

How Do International Conflicts Impact China’s Energy Security and Economic Growth? A Case Study of the US Economic Sanctions on Iran

How Do International Conflicts Impact China’s Energy Security and Economic Growth? A Case Study of the US Economic Sanctions on Iran

Analysis of China’s Manufacturing Industry Carbon Lock-In and Its Influencing Factors

Energy Consumption Transformation, Cleaner Production, and Regional Carbon Productivity in China: Evidence Based on a Panel Threshold Model

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