Is green technology vertical spillovers more significant in mitigating carbon intensity? Evidence from Chinese industries

Jiao, Jianling; Chen, Chuxi; Bai, Yu

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120354

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“…Employing the patents to measure the technology innovation from a microeconomy perspective or technical change from a macroeconomy perspective has been commonly supported by some researchers (Popp 2002;Johnstone et al, 2010;Albino et al, 2014;Aghion et al, 2016). According to the "International Patent Classification (IPC) Green Inventory" issued by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) 1 , the number of authorized patents in China is examined to reflect the level of current green technology innovation (Cai et al, 2020;Jiao et al, 2020;Chen Z et al, 2021;Xu et al, 2021;Wang et al, 2021). The IPC Green Inventory is based on the specific technical terms proposed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and its purpose is to facilitate the retrieval of patent details related to environmentally sound technologies.…”

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Can Market-Based Environmental Regulation Promote Green Technology Innovation? Evidence from China

Chen

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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To alleviate climate change and environmental issues, China has implemented many environmental regulation policies. This paper takes the SO2 and carbon emission trading pilots (SETP, CETP) in China as the quasi-experiment and, under the difference-in-difference framework, studies whether the market-based environmental regulation (MER) policy promotes green technology innovation. The investigation is conducted employing patent data with the “IPC Green Inventory” on the panel data of China’s 278 prefectural-level cities over the period 2003–2017. We found that 1) as for a single policy, SETP successfully promoted green technology innovation, but failed in CETP, which shows that not all MER policies can play a positive effect on green technology innovation. Meanwhile, SETP and CETP did not change the direction of technology innovation and had no impact on total technology innovation. 2) For the combination policy, SETP and CETP failed to jointly promote green technology innovation, and with the current MER policy in China, it is difficult to realize the policy combination effect. This result implies that repeated implementation of similar environmental policies failed to stimulate innovation. 3) Heterogeneity analysis shows that the promotion effect of SETP on green technology innovation, mainly in the eastern region, and the promotion effect on invention patents is more prominent than utility model patents, which shows that green technology has improved not only in quantity but also in quality. These findings provide empirical evidence and policy implication for the efficient implementation of environmental regulation.

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Can Market-Based Environmental Regulation Promote Green Technology Innovation? Evidence from China

Chen

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…To achieve this, many countries take many measures to reduce carbon emissions and develop low-carbon economies. In the way of conserving energy and reducing emissions, green innovation is considered to be effective [1][2][3].…”

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Government Low‐Carbon Policies Optimization for Smart Transportation Enterprises

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Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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As an important part of energy saving and carbon reduction, the low-carbon development of the transportation industry is imperative. It is the responsibility of smart transportation enterprises to closely combine their own digital technology with the governments’ policies to achieve green innovation. In this study, we conducted an evolutionary game model of the interaction between the governments and smart transportation enterprises, which depended on innovation subsidies and punitive taxes. Besides, we derived the evolutionarily stable strategy of the governments and enterprises and used a simulation to analyze the impact of various policy tools on green innovation strategy. The results showed that the behavior of the governments relies on the benefits of supervision and the costs of supporting green technology innovation. The enterprises’ behavior depends on the benefits of green innovation and the loss of no green innovation. Moreover, different policy tools provided by the governments can accelerate the implementation of enterprises’ green innovation.

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“…Seemingly, the study of Guo et al (2018) clarified that the main source of agrarian GHG emissions is chemical fertilizers (77%-95%), and through the use of advanced farming techniques, GHG emissions can be reduced by about 13%-35%. Interestingly, the heterogeneity of the agricultural sector of China led to several technological gaps and formulated management errors, which are the main burden to facilitate effective emission reduction potential within the agricultural sector (Fei and Lin, 2017;Jiao et al, 2020).…”

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“…Du et al (2019) explored that green technological innovation has no significant contribution to reducing CO 2 emissions for economies with income levels below the threshold, whereas its mitigation effect is obvious for economies with income levels above the threshold. Jiao et al (2020) found that the vertical green technology of China has a greater carbon emission reduction effect than green technology itself. Song et al (2020) studied environmentally biased technological progress emission reductions.…”

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The Evolution of Factors Influencing Green Technological Progress in Terms of Carbon Reduction: A Spatial-Temporal Tactic Within Agriculture Industries of China

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The impacts of widespread carbon emission trends possessed tremendous pressure for global food security, sustainable development, and ecosystems. Several temporal and spatial patterns of green technology have been adopted to reduce carbon emissions in different regions of China. In China, agriculture industries may have colossal importance for reducing carbon emissions. On the basis of the data from 1998 to 2018, the study uses the heterogeneous stochastic frontier model to quantify the carbon emission reduction potential of agricultural green technology progress in eastern, central, and western regions of China by using the heterogeneous stochastic frontier model. We also analyze the coefficient of variation and its spatial and temporal evolution pattern of carbon intensity decline potential index and explore the potential factors related to the agriculture green technology progress of China. The finding of the study revealed that the carbon emission rate in the agriculture industry of China is very high, whereas adopting green technology is slower because of economic and policy-related factors—the carbon emission of green technological progress. In terms of spatial variations, the changes in various regions were consistent with the overall fluctuating rate compared with the state of another country, but an increasing trend has been traced within the “east-central-west” regions. The overall regional differences are gradually trending, but differences between regions mainly cause them. The increase in the structure of the agricultural agriculture industry, the level of labor, and the increase in administrative environmental regulations will weaken the obstacles to the carbon emission reduction potential of green technological progress. The increase in urbanization, the level of the agricultural economy, and economic and environmental regulations will increase the carbon emission reduction potential of green technological progress. It is necessary to actively promote exchanges and cooperation in green agricultural technology and advanced management concepts, accelerate the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure, and achieve the goal of peaking carbon emissions through regional coordinated development. Regionally, the overall external environment and the level of green technology progress in the western region need to be improved in all respects. The central and eastern regions need to focus on combining different policy tools to transform them from hindrance to promotion.

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Is green technology vertical spillovers more significant in mitigating carbon intensity? Evidence from Chinese industries

Cited by 105 publications

References 39 publications

Can Market-Based Environmental Regulation Promote Green Technology Innovation? Evidence from China

Can Market-Based Environmental Regulation Promote Green Technology Innovation? Evidence from China

Government Low‐Carbon Policies Optimization for Smart Transportation Enterprises

The Evolution of Factors Influencing Green Technological Progress in Terms of Carbon Reduction: A Spatial-Temporal Tactic Within Agriculture Industries of China

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