The impacts of GDP, trade structure, exchange rate and FDI inflows on China's carbon emissions

Zhang, Yu; Zhang, Sufang

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.05.056

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“…The coefficients of GPC and GPC square were 0.492 and −0.351, respectively, proving the existence of EKH and an inverted U-shape between carbon emissions and economic development. Our research results are consistent with those reported by [35,49]. It is confirmed that early-stage development in China negatively impacts the environment, especially during the industrialization and urbanization processes.…”

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“…Therefore, the influence of technical progress on carbon emissions is uncertain. Zhang and Zhang [35] examined the impacts of GDP, trade structure, exchange rate and FDI inflows on China's carbon emissions and verified the validity of the EKC. They proved that the impacts of FDI inflows were negative, indicating the low quality of FDI in China.…”

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confidence: 93%

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How to Balance the Trade-off between Economic Development and Climate Change?

Jiang

2019

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Climate change is not only an environmental issue but also a development problem. Maintaining rapid economic development while simultaneously mitigating climate change is a pivotal and challenging task. Previous studies mainly focused on testing the validity of the environmental Kuznets hypothesis but ignored the internal influencing mechanism. This paper extends the past work in three aspects. First, we theoretically discuss the interaction of the scale, structure and technology effects of economic development and their impact on carbon emissions based on a classic model and the general equilibrium theory. Second, the relationship between carbon emissions and these three effects are examined by considering the quadratic term, and the interactive mechanism among them is evaluated by applying multiple mediating analysis. Due to the important role of the technology effect, we further divide it into different sources to reveal its impact on carbon emissions and discuss the rebound effect. Finally, the policy effect is considered, and the results demonstrate that the implementation of effective environmental regulations can mitigate the adverse impact of economic development on carbon emissions. Our research is an initial attempt to thoroughly explore the pathways to balance the trade-off between development and environment from the perspective of internal influencing mechanisms. The empirical results can serve as an important reference for making policies about energy conservation and emission reduction.

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Section: Impact Of Each Effect On Carbon Emissionssupporting

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How to Balance the Trade-off between Economic Development and Climate Change?

Jiang

2019

Sustainability

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“…Therefore, it must be included in the regression model. Per capita GDP is used to evaluate economic growth [1,19], which captures economic development. Industrial structure affects the allocation and flow of resources, and also includes the distribution of heavy industrial enterprises, which affects environmental efficiency.…”

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“…Zeng and Eastin [18] argue that the FDI inflows enhance environmental awareness in developing countries. Zhang and Zhang [19] identify the validity of EKC and suggest that the effect of FDI inflows on carbon emissions is positive.…”

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FDI Inflows, Market Fragmentation and Their Impact on Industrial Environmental Efficiency: An Empirical Study in China

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Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…Therefore, it is the famous EKC hypothesis, according to which the environmental quality and GDP per capita exhibit a U‐shaped curve. Over time, there are various studies taken up to validate the EKC hypothesis taking different time frames or different geographical locations, (Y. Zhang & Zhang, ). For individual countries, it is found that the EKC hypothesis does not hold.…”

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An Indian story on carbon emission, energy consumption, trade openness, and financial development

Menon

2019

Journal of Public Affairs

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This paper empirically studies the impact of energy consumption, financial development, and trade openness on India's carbon emission for 1971 to 2014 and validates the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for India. The Autoregressive Distributed‐lagged model (ARDL) bound test is used to test the existence of cointegration among the key variables. The results exhibit a U‐shaped relationship between carbon emission and energy consumption in the long run. Through this study, we find out the maximum threshold value of energy consumption per capita to 757 kg of oil equivalent, which is above the current consumptions levels—indicating a rise in carbon emission shortly. Further, the long‐run results show that a 1% increase in trade openness will decrease carbon emission by 0.11%, which is a display of technological effect over scale effect and composition effect. Financial development does not exhibit a significant relation to carbon emission. The results are in line with the literature on climate change in emerging countries. This empirical work gives some insight into policy issues that have to be looked into further.

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The impacts of GDP, trade structure, exchange rate and FDI inflows on China's carbon emissions

Cited by 281 publications

References 20 publications

How to Balance the Trade-off between Economic Development and Climate Change?

How to Balance the Trade-off between Economic Development and Climate Change?

FDI Inflows, Market Fragmentation and Their Impact on Industrial Environmental Efficiency: An Empirical Study in China

An Indian story on carbon emission, energy consumption, trade openness, and financial development

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