The persistent and transient total factor carbon emission performance and its economic determinants: evidence from China's province-level panel data

Lv, Yulan; Liu, Jingnan; Cheng, Jinquan; Andreoni, Valeria

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128198

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“…In China, uncontrolled human interference in nature during recent decades, especially those before 2000, has led to the extensive degradation of land with high carbon sequestration capacity, thus affecting the carbon sink capacity of ecosystems 7 . At the same time, China has surpassed the United States as the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, as rapid economic development has led to increased fossil energy consumption and per capita carbon emissions 8 , 9 . Based on these circumstances, the Chinese government has set the development goals of peaking carbon emissions by 2030 and achieving a carbon balance by 2060 10 , leaving time and options for further improvement of ecological governance efficiency.…”

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Carbon sinks and carbon emissions balance of land use transition in Xinjiang, China: differences and compensation

Luo

Wang

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With the continuous enhancement of human activities, the contradiction between regional development and ecological protection is prominent in the ecologically fragile arid areas. It is of great significance for regional sustainable development to understand the ecological supply and demand problems caused by transformation of land using and formulate ecological compensation scheme scientifically. This study takes Xinjiang in China as the research area. It explores the land use transition characteristics and the changes in carbon supply and demand of Xinjiang using methods such as GIS spatial analysis and modified comparative ecological radiation forcing. Finally, the ecological compensation scheme is studied based on the theory of ecological radiation. The research shows that (I) in the study chronology, most of the areas produced only one change in land use. Land use is gradually developing towards the direction of ecological protection. After 2000, grassland recovered well, and 14,298 km2 of other ecological land was transformed into grassland. (II) The change in the carbon sink of the Xinjiang ecosystem first decreased and then increased, and the ecological deficit area started to appear after 2010. The growth of grassland and cropland areas is essential to enhance the carbon sink capacity of arid zones. (III) The amount of ecological compensation in Xinjiang is 31.47 * 108 yuan, and the proportion of the amount received by ecological compensation areas is related to the distance between the supply and demand areas, the amount of carbon sequestration, and the area of the region. This study provides a reference for achieving the healthy development of sustainable land use ecosystems in arid zones.

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Carbon sinks and carbon emissions balance of land use transition in Xinjiang, China: differences and compensation

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“…On the one hand, the pollution heaven hypothesis suggests that some regions, in order to develop their economy, usually adopt less strict ENRs or lower environmental standards. Foreign companies invest there to alleviate the environmental pressure faced by their home country, making the area a pollution refuge in global trade liberalization (Li et al, 2021; Lv et al, 2021). On the other hand, the pollution halo hypothesis suggests that local officials and people can understand the environmental preferences and rules of global consumers in the process of opening up to the outside world, improve local environmental awareness in more advanced product trade, and promote the optimization and innovation of production methods through the spillover effects of technology and the demonstration and competition effects of foreign companies, thus improving urban environmental quality and ecological benefits (Li et al, 2021; Lv et al, 2021).…”

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The spatio‐temporal interactive effects between ecological urbanization and industrial ecologization in the Yangtze River Delta region

Zhang

2023

Sustainable Development

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In this study, we investigated the spatio‐temporal synergistic relationship between ecological urbanization (EU) and industrial eco‐efficiency (IEE) in the context of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region. The main findings are as follows: (1) EU and IEE generally exhibited similar spatial distribution patterns, with high values concentrated in the southern part of the delta and low values in the northern part and Anhui Province; there was also a high degree of coupling between the two systems. (2) IEE and EU's relationship presented a U‐shaped positive correlation trend from 2001 to 2019, and a positive correlation was observed in most cities, with highly correlated cities clustered in southern Zhejiang and Anhui province, while negative correlation cities scattered in a few cities in northern Zhejiang, northern Anhui, and southern Jiangsu. (3) Significantly spatial association characteristics were found between EU and IEE, with HEUHIEE type clustering mainly in southeastern delta cities, while the LEULIEE type slowly encroached upon northwest delta cities. (4). Synergistic promoting effects were identified between IEE and EU, whereby, the improvement of IEE in both local and neighboring cities contributed to promoting EU, and the progress of EU in both local and neighboring cities helped to promote IEE.

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“…TFCEP is defined as the ratio of potential carbon intensity to actual carbon intensity [ 15 , 16 ]. There are abundant research results on TFCEP measurement [ 17 , 18 , 19 ]. Since the nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) model can effectively deal with the problems of irregular data and nonuniform dimensions [ 20 ], it has incomparable advantages compared to parametric analysis methods for efficiency measurement research that includes both expected and undesired outputs [ 16 , 21 , 22 ].…”

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“…Domestic and foreign research results on the influencing factors of carbon emission reduction are extremely rich, and it has been identified that industrial structure, financial development, urbanization and technological innovation are all key driving factors [ 15 , 19 , 29 , 30 ]. However, there is currently no consensus among academics on the impact of finance on carbon emission reduction.…”

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Green Credit and Total Factor Carbon Emission Performance—Evidence from Moderation-Based Mediating Effect Test

Cao

Niu

2022

IJERPH

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To achieve China’s new development pattern and the “dual carbon” goals, it is necessary to boost emission reduction and high-quality economic development simultaneously. Green credit (GC), consisting of environmental regulation and economic leverage, has a profound impact on improving total factor carbon emission performance (TFCEP). By selecting the panel data of 30 provinces and municipalities in China from 2001 to 2020, this paper constructs a series of panel models to analyze the transmission path of GC to TFCEP. The results indicate that the relationship between GC and TFCEP showed an “inverted-U-shaped” relationship. This is mainly because “energy-saving and emission reduction” first appeared in the government planning outline in 2006, and transition-friendly enterprises successfully transformed with low-interest green credit, thereby effectively improving their TFCEP. However, as environmental regulations continue to increase and the scale of green credit continues to expand, the efficiency of green credit allocation and internal conflicts with other environmental regulation policies are also emerging. At the same time, the advancement of industrial structure and green technology innovation had a significant mediating effect between GC and TFCEP; government quality has a strong moderating effect on the second stage of the mediating process. When GC reaches a certain scale, it tends to restrain TFCEP more in central and western China than in eastern China. Therefore, it is of great significance to continuously increase the scale of GC, promote the advancement of clean energy industrial structure, and improve green technology innovation.

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The persistent and transient total factor carbon emission performance and its economic determinants: evidence from China's province-level panel data

Cited by 37 publications

References 172 publications

Carbon sinks and carbon emissions balance of land use transition in Xinjiang, China: differences and compensation

Carbon sinks and carbon emissions balance of land use transition in Xinjiang, China: differences and compensation

The spatio‐temporal interactive effects between ecological urbanization and industrial ecologization in the Yangtze River Delta region

Green Credit and Total Factor Carbon Emission Performance—Evidence from Moderation-Based Mediating Effect Test

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