Multiple effects of ICT investment on carbon emissions: evidence from China

Cui, Huanyu; Cao, Yuequn; Feng, Chao; Zhang, Chi

doi:10.1007/s11356-022-22160-3

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“…This makes sense since the digital economy becomes a national strategy, the speed, and quality of its development will be greatly improved, thereby further tapping its productive potential. In the case of before the national strategy support, the digital economy is relatively slow to develop, and its network effect may be difficult to fully play (Cui et al 2022 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Here, we use digital infrastructure capital instead of digitization for re-estimation, and the results are shown in column (1) of Table 13 . Digital infrastructure capital is calculated using the perpetual inventory method non-traditional approach (Cui et al 2022 ; Xu et al 2022 ). (2) Replace the dependent variable.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessing the digital economy and its effect on carbon performance: the case of China

Cui

Cao

Zhang

2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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With China’s carbon neutrality target and the rapid growth of the digital economy, it is critical to understand how the digital economy can decouple economic growth from carbon emissions. This paper innovatively calculates the digital economy index in China from 2004 to 2019 and explores how the digital economy affects total factor carbon productivity (TFCP) and its spatial spillover effect. The empirical results indicate that (1) the development level of digital economy in eastern provinces is significantly higher than that in other provinces. (2) The digital economy positively promotes TFCP. Interestingly, digital industrialization has a more substantial effect on improving TFCP, while industry digitization has a weaker effect. (3) The digital economy not only helps improve the local TFCP but also has spatial spillovers to the surrounding areas and has the most prominent effect on the TFCP of the northern. (4) The digital economy affects TFCP through four channels industrial digital upgrading, human capital, market integration, and resource allocation. (5) The effects of the digital economy on TFCP exhibit significant heterogeneity in terms of time, region, and pollution degree. The findings of this study have important policy implications for promoting the transition to the digital economy and low-carbon development.

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Assessing the digital economy and its effect on carbon performance: the case of China

Cui

Cao

Zhang

2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…While direct carbon emissions through livelihoods and lifestyles constitute a significant source of climate imbalance, the indirect production of carbon through investment portfolios creates more discrete but as destructive carbon-intensive production. For example, capital investments in information and communication technology sector hardware have been found to be a significant carbon producer (Cui et al 2023). In this light, Oxfam (2022a:2) suggest that "analysis of the investments of 125 of the world's richest billionaires shows that on average they are emitting 3 million tonnes a year, more than a million times the average for someone in the bottom 90% of humanity".…”

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Green Transition's Necropolitics: Inequalities, Climate Extractivism, and Carbon Classes

Deberdt,

Le Billon

2024

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This article theorises the processes of colonisation, wealth accumulation, and inequalities creation that the current paradigm of a resource‐hungry green transition enacts on the most vulnerable populations. We suggest that the extractivist logics and related technical fixes are leading to a “climate necropolitics”. In this, the socio‐economic system is increasingly defined by classes’ carbon exposure and consumption. Through the “green growth” of late capitalism, we theorise the advent of four carbon‐defined classes. Bounded by the access to climate tech capital and consumption of low‐carbon products, these include the ultra‐carbonised, decarbonised, still‐carbonised, and uncarbonised classes—with the first two acting as dominant classes and necropolitical agents sustained by the remaining lower classes. Inspired by Marxist scholars, we suggest that the current status quo is untenable and will result in class warfare during which coalitions between classes could reorient the “make live and let die” of the current green transition paradigm.

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“…Investment in the application of industrial Internet related technologies is squeezed out, thus limiting the application of industrial Internet technologies by enterprises and affecting their emission reduction performance (Yin et al 2023). Following "Porter's hypothesis", moderate CER intensity would guide enterprises to invest capital in industrial Internet field, which could improve CEEI (Cui et al, 2023). In addition, due to the communication property of the Internet, under the condition of strict supervision, the government's environmental information disclosure behavior will be spread rapidly through the Internet.…”

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The impact of Internet development on carbon emission efficiency of industrial sector: the threshold effect ofmultiple environmental regulations

baitong,

jian,

Yan

2023

Preprint

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Under the background of carbon emission constraint and Industrial intelligent transformation, the extent to which Internet development affects the carbon emission efficiency of industrial sector (CEEI) has been increasingly focused. Using China’s provincial data during the period of 2011 to 2020, this study illustrates the impact of Internet development on CEEI and the role of different types and intensities of environmental regulatory tools in the relationship. The following conclusions could be drawn from this study. (1) Internet development will promote the CEEI. And the relationship is influenced by multiple environmental regulations, namely, command-controlled environmental regulation (CER), market-incentive environmental regulation (MER) and voluntary public participation environmental regulation (VER). For the whole sample, the enhancement effect of Internet development across the CER threshold on CEEI is weakened. when MER is between its two thresholds, the boost effect will be greatest. And under the VER threshold effect, the relationship presents an inverted U-shaped. (2) Heterogeneity analysis shows that the influence of Internet development on CEEI varies in different regions under the threshold of three types of environmental regulation tools. Therefore, the government should implement a diversified portfolio of environmental regulation policies, and give full play to the maximum effect of Internet development on CEEI promotion according to regional characteristics, thereby promoting industrial green transformation and upgrading.

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Multiple effects of ICT investment on carbon emissions: evidence from China

Cited by 27 publications

References 78 publications

Assessing the digital economy and its effect on carbon performance: the case of China

Assessing the digital economy and its effect on carbon performance: the case of China

Green Transition's Necropolitics: Inequalities, Climate Extractivism, and Carbon Classes

The impact of Internet development on carbon emission efficiency of industrial sector: the threshold effect ofmultiple environmental regulations

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