Investigating interior driving factors and cross-industrial linkages of carbon emission efficiency in China's construction industry: Based on Super-SBM DEA and GVAR model

Zhou, Yinxiang; Liu, Weili; Lv, Xuying; Chen, Xinhui; Shen, Menghan

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118322

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“…Yan et al (2020) use partially linear functional-coefficient models to investigate the effect of renewable technology innovation on green productivity and find that the significance of the effect depends on the relative income level China's provinces. Although the methods are different, most of the studies suggest that technology innovation is the main factor contributing to the increase of carbon efficiency (Du & Li, 2019;Yan et al, 2020;Yin et al, 2015;Yu et al, 2017;Zhou et al, 2019) Considering that carbon emission efficiency is mainly used to measure green production in previous studies, we focus our research on the influencing factors of carbon emission efficiency on the impact of green production. Furthermore, the majority of existing studies focus on the influencing factors of carbon efficiency or carbon productivity from an economical or regional view; few studies mention a specific industry, especially manufacturing.…”

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Role of Low-carbon Technology Innovation in Environmental Performance of Manufacturing: Evidence From Oecd Countries

Shi

Chen

Zhao

2021

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Climate change disrupts the balance of natural ecosystems and threatens the sustainable development of human society. As the leading industry in many countries, manufacturing promotes economic development; unfortunately, it also emits large quantities of greenhouse gases. Thus, it is necessary to transform the production pattern of manufacturing into green production. Although technology innovation is the only way to tackle the issue, different types of technology innovation may lead to different environmental performances. We argue that low-carbon technology innovation (LCTI) is the key to green production. Using data of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries from 1990 to 2014, we use the patent-stock method to measure LCTI levels and analyze its development trend in OECD countries. Based on the shepherd distance function, we measure carbon efficiency and carbon productivity by the fixed-effect Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) model. Then we investigate the effect of LCTI on carbon emission efficiency in manufacturing by the fixed-effect regression model. After controlling some variables, evidence shows a significant positive influence of LCTI on the environmental performance of manufacturing. The level of LCTI constantly increased in OECD countries during the study period. Among these countries, the level of low-carbon technology in the chemical industry is the highest; and in most of the countries, the low-carbon technology of production process grows fastest. Policy implications are further discussed.

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Role of Low-carbon Technology Innovation in Environmental Performance of Manufacturing: Evidence From Oecd Countries

Shi

Chen

Zhao

2021

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“…A few studies apply the GVAR model to investigate how fossil fuel use is related to CO 2 emissions in China. Zhou et al (2019) apply a GVAR model to sector-level data of six industries in China to study cross-sectoral linkages of carbon emission efficiency in China's construction industry including industry coal consumption and total-factor carbon emission efficiency. Cui and Zhu (2016) investigate how dual constraints of energy consumption and carbon emission affect China's economic growth by applying a GVAR model that takes into account fuel switch between non-renewable renewable energy sources.…”

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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on global fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions

2021

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The shock to the global economy from COVID-19 is predicted to be faster and more severe than the 2008 global financial crisis and even the Great Depression. We assess its impact on global fossil fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions over a two-year horizon. For this purpose we employ a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model, which captures complex spatial-temporal interdependencies across countries due to the spread of the virus and associated international propagation of economic impact. The model makes use of a unique quarterly data set of coal, natural gas, and oil consumption, output and exchange rates, including global fossil fuel prices for 32 major CO 2 emitting countries. We produce forecasts of coal, natural gas and oil consumption, conditional on GDP growth scenarios based on alternative IMF World Economic Outlook forecasts that were made before and after the outbreak. We also simulate the effect of a relative price change in fossil fuels, due to carbon pricing in all countries in the sample, on consumption and output. Our results show that fossil fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions are expected to return to their pre-crisis levels, and even exceed them, within the two-year horizon despite the large reductions in the first quarter following the outbreak. Our forecasts anticipate more robust growth for emerging than for advanced economies. Recovery to the pre-crisis levels is expected even if another wave of pandemic occurs within a year. The results from our counterfactual carbon pricing scenario show that an increase in coal prices is expected to have a smaller impact on GDP than on fossil fuel consumption. Thus, the COVID-19 pandemic would not provide countries with a strong reason to delay climate change mitigation efforts.

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“…Although climate variation is part of the evolution of the planet, human activities significantly potentiate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and hence global warming (Zhou et al, 2019). Among the factors that contribute most to CO2 emissions are the combustion of fossil fuels (IPCC, 2013) and the conversion of native vegetation areas to areas for human use (Kopittke et al, 2017).…”

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Wastewater reuse in irrigation: short-term effect on soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in Brazilian semi-arid region

Corrêa¹,

Cavalcanti²,

Primo³

et al. 2021

Rev. ambiente água

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The main process that opposes the Greenhouse Effect is called “carbon sequestration”, a phenomenon that essentially seeks to establish a dynamic balance between greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the immobilization of its elements, especially C and N. This work evaluated the stocks of carbon and nitrogen in soils of the Brazilian semi-arid submitted to irrigation with treated wastewater from domestic sewage. For this purpose, the carbon and nitrogen stocks in the soil of the semi-arid region of Brazil were compared for four different uses: Open Native Caatinga (ONC); Treated Wastewater Effluent Irrigation (TSEI); Surface Water Irrigation (SWI); and Traditional Rainfed Agriculture (TRA). The hypothesis considered in this research was that the application of treated effluents in agriculture, besides being an alternative that can mitigate the problem of water scarcity of the semiarid region, is also capable of influencing the storage capacity of C and N in the soil, due to its organic load. The results indicate that among the different land uses evaluated, soil C and N stocks were highest in ONC, and decreased with the agricultural land use. The greatest accumulation of C and N in Caatinga is due to the presence of forest litter, and the influence of irrigation with treated sewage effluent was not detected in the present study. It can be concluded that the contribution of vegetation residues to the soil surface is the main factor contributing to C and N storage.

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Investigating interior driving factors and cross-industrial linkages of carbon emission efficiency in China's construction industry: Based on Super-SBM DEA and GVAR model

Cited by 162 publications

References 39 publications

Role of Low-carbon Technology Innovation in Environmental Performance of Manufacturing: Evidence From Oecd Countries

Role of Low-carbon Technology Innovation in Environmental Performance of Manufacturing: Evidence From Oecd Countries

Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on global fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions

Wastewater reuse in irrigation: short-term effect on soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in Brazilian semi-arid region

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