This article selects the listed companies in China’s A-share heavy pollution industry from 2014 to 2018 as samples, uses a random effect model to empirically test the relationship between media attention and corporate environmental performance and examines the impacts of local government environmental protection and property nature on that relationship. Results are as follow: (1) Media attention can significantly affect a company’s environmental performance. The higher the media attention, the greater the company’s supervision and the better its environmental performance. (2) In areas where the government pays less attention to environmental protection, the impact of media on corporate environmental performance is more obvious, but in other areas, the impact of media on environmental performance cannot be reflected; (3) The media attention is very significant for the environmental performance improvement of state-owned enterprises, and it is not obvious in non-state-owned enterprises. (4) A further breakdown of the study found that the role of media attention in corporate environmental performance is only significant in the sample of local governments that have low environmental protection and are state-owned enterprises. This research incorporates the local government’s emphasis on environmental protection into the research field of vision, expands the research scope of media and corporate environmental performance, and also provides new clues and evidence for promoting the active fulfillment of environmental protection responsibilities by companies and local governments.
The green transformation design of traditional hotels aims to reduce the consumption of materials and energy and reduce the emission of harmful substances. Carbon emission, usually used to measure energy consumption, is a representative indicator to evaluate the effect of the green transformation process. This paper adopts the emission factor method to measure the carbon emission reduction in the process of hotels’ green transformation from the whole life cycle of hotels, and the results show that: 1) From the perspective of the hotel life cycle, the construction process is the stage with the most carbon emissions. 2) From the perspective of a single hotel, high-star hotels have larger emissions than low-star hotels; 3) As the number of three and four-star hotels far exceeds the five-star hotels, overall, four-star hotels ranked first in total emission reduction. 4) From the perspective of provinces, the hotel industry emission reduction potential of different provinces varies greatly, among which Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu provinces are at the top of the list. The future carbon reduction potential of the Chinese hotel industry is very considerable. The content of this paper enriches the research in the field of carbon emission measurement and also provides a reference for the management agency to designate the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals of the hotel industry.
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