Are research and development on energy efficiency and energy sources effective in the level of CO2 emissions? Fresh evidence from EU data

Examining the Effects of Energy Efficiency R&D and Renewable Energy on Environmental Sustainability Amidst Political Risk in France

“…Likewise, using the Danish case, the study of Adebayo and Alola (2023) using the wavelet tools highlighted the eff ectiveness of energy effi ciency R&D and RENE in bolstering ecological excellence. The survey of Bilgili et al (2023) also aligns with Adebayo and Alola (2023), who affi rmed the infl uential role of energy effi ciency R&D and RENE in dampening the growth of CO 2 . The existing literature needs to be more comprehensive in assessing the interplay between political risks and the eff ects of energy effi ciency R&D, natural resource utilization and renewable energy adoption on environmental sustainability in France.…”

The impact of energy-saving R&D on urban carbon emission performance: evidence from 218 prefecture-level cities in China

“…In response, the exploration on the influencing factors of carbon emission performance has attracted increasing attentions from academia in recent years. A number of meaningful studies have examined the drivers of carbon Frontiers in Environmental Science frontiersin.org emission performance from different insights, including new-type urbanization (Cui and Cao, 2023;Zhang et al, 2023), energy efficiency (Li et al, 2022;Bilgili et al, 2023), internet development (Lin and Zhou, 2021), foreign direct investment (FDI) (Song et al, 2021;Yue et al, 2023), development zones (Chang et al, 2020;Gao et al, 2023), and corporate governance (Narsa Goud, 2022;Oyewo, 2023). To be specific, on the basis of a panel data from 283 Chinese cities over 2006 investigated the impact of new urbanization on the carbon emission performance and found that new-type urbanization contributes to the improvement of urban carbon emission performance, and this effect is more powerful in the later stage of new-type urbanization construction.…”

“…In light of this, increasing attentions have been given from academia to the exploration of the driving factors that contribute to improving urban carbon emission performance in recent years. A number of studies have examined the various drivers of carbon emission performance from different insights, including economic growth (Schröder and Storm, 2020;Yang and Zhao, 2023), energy efficiency (Bilgili et al, 2023;Lu et al, 2023), foreign direct investment (FDI) (Zhu et al, 2016;Song et al, 2021), internet development (Lin and Zhou, 2021;Pan et al, 2023), corporate governance (Ferrat, 2021;Lv et al, 2021), and digital economy (Zhang et al, 2022;Zhao et al, 2023). However, it is worth noting that there is a scarcity of studies that have specifically examined the potential impacts of domestic research and development (R&D) activities, particularly in the energy field, on the improvement of urban carbon emission performance.…”

Spatial spillover and threshold effect of green development efficiency on urban human settlement resilience in Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration

“…Mechanisms of action of the green concept on enhancing urban human settlement resilience. Symbiosis theory suggests that a mutually beneficial relationship of production and exchange will be formed between urban development and the ecological environment, so urban development should be realized with the premise of protecting the ecological environment [ 20 ]. Based on this, the widespread acceptance of the green concept has the potential to change the traditional development thinking associated with uncontrolled urban expansion, which could help to raise the environmental behavior of residents, thereby facilitating the social construction of a green ecological civilization and ultimately the promotion of urban human settlement resilience [ 21 ].…”