Just energy transitions? Energy policy and the adoption of clean energy technology by households in Sweden

Ring, Mikael; Wilson, Emma; Ruwanpura, Kanchana N.; Gay-Antaki, Miriam

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2022.102727

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“…Thus, achieving success in the innovation process is related to HC. Meanwhile, technological innovation can encourage the application of new and clean energy technologies, thereby playing a new critical role in energy efficiency improvement and further reducing EC [ 81 , 82 , 83 ]. Particularly, the technology effect has played a prominent role in energy consumption mitigation in China relative to other countries like the United States and Japan [ 84 ].…”

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Effects of Human Capital on Energy Consumption: The Role of Income Inequality

Gao

Yuan

Zheng

2022

IJERPH

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High-quality human capital (HC) development has a strong influence on achieving a win-win target of economic growth and energy consumption mitigation based on the background of the contemporary “carbon neutrality” constraints in China. We here aim to empirically assess the effect of HC on energy consumption (EC) in 30 provinces of China from 2000 to 2019. Moreover, we broaden the literature by discussing the effect of HC in terms of impact mechanism and nonlinear relationship. Based on methods of the augmented mean group (AMG), the estimation of long-term impacts indicates that the improvement of HC significantly discourages the increase in EC. The intrinsic mechanism shows that the accumulation of HC significantly promotes the decline of EC through economic structure adjustment and technological innovation. Moreover, the threshold model indicates that income equality lifts the inhibitory impact of HC on EC. Accordingly, the development of HC should be involved in the policy preference of China’s provincial and national development strategies considering its effectiveness in stimulating the reduction of energy consumption.

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