Bioenergy consumption, carbon emissions, and agricultural bioeconomic growth: A systematic approach to carbon neutrality in China

Koondhar, Mansoor Ahmed; Tan, Zhongfu; Alam, Gazi Mahabubul; Khan, Zaid Ashiq; Wang, Linwei; Kong, Rong

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113242

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“…Carbon neutrality by 2060 will force China's energy structure, industrial structure, and transportation structure to be adjust with advanced technology (Yang et al, 2021). Carbonneutral technologies such as wind, solar, biomass and nuclear power generation, energy storage, as well as carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) will provide strong support for the green and low carbon transformation of China's energy system (Koondhar et al, 2021;Tang et al, 2021;Liu et al, 2022). Second, carbon neutrality will lead to reshape the value of different regions and resources in China.…”

Section: Towards Carbon Neutrality: a Flourishing Eramentioning

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China’s carbon neutrality: an extensive and profound systemic reform

Tong

2022

Front. Environ. Sci. Eng.

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China is the largest developing economy and carbon dioxide emitter in the world, the carbon neutrality goal of which will have a profound influence on the mitigation pathway of global climate change. The transition towards a carbon-neutral society is integrated into the construction of ecological civilization in China, and brings profound implications for China’s socioeconomic development. Here, we not only summarize the major challenges in achieving carbon neutrality in China, but also identify the four potential new opportunities: namely, the acceleration of technology innovations, narrowing regional disparity by reshaping the value of resources, transforming the industrial structure, and co-benefits of pollution and carbon mitigation. Finally, we provide five policy suggestions and highlight the importance of balancing economic growth and carbon mitigation, and the joint efforts among the government, the enterprises, and the residents.

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Section: Towards Carbon Neutrality: a Flourishing Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

China’s carbon neutrality: an extensive and profound systemic reform

Tong

2022

Front. Environ. Sci. Eng.

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“…Meanwhile, the land change from bare soil to the impervious surface area during the urban expansion is also a process from carbon source to carbon sink, indicating a carbon sink process [63]. Furthermore, the sustainable greening of urban regions can offset part of carbon emissions through photosynthesis in the urbanized region [67,68], which is conducive to achieving the goal of "carbon neutrality [69][70][71]" in the African continent.…”

Section: Potential Environmental Effects Of Intra-urban Land Change In Africa During 2000-2020mentioning

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Evaluating the Dynamic Changes of Urban Land and Its Fractional Covers in Africa from 2000–2020 Using Time Series of Remotely Sensed Images on the Big Data Platform

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Dramatic urban land expansion and its internal sub-fraction change during 2000–2020 have taken place in Africa; however, the investigation of their spatial heterogeneity and dynamic change monitoring at the continental scale are rarely reported. Taking the whole of Africa as a study area, the synergic approach of normalized settlement density index and random forest was applied to assess urban land and its sub-land fractions (i.e., impervious surface area and vegetation space) in Africa, through time series of remotely sensed images on a cloud computing platform. The generated 30-m resolution urban land/sub-land products displayed good accuracy, with comprehensive accuracy of over 90%. During 2000–2020, the evaluated urban land throughout Africa increased from 1.93 × 104 km2 to 4.18 × 104 km2, with a total expansion rate of 116.49%, and the expanded urban area of the top six countries accounted for more than half of the total increments, meaning that the urban expansion was concentrated in several major countries. A turning green Africa was observed, with a continuously increasing ratio of vegetation space to built-up area and a faster increment of vegetation space than impervious surface area (i.e., 134.43% vs., 108.88%) within urban regions. A better living environment was also found in different urbanized regions, as the newly expanded urban area was characterized by lower impervious surface area fraction and higher vegetation fraction compared with the original urban area. Similarly, the humid/semi-humid regions also displayed a better living environment than arid/semi-arid regions. The relationship between socioeconomic development factors (i.e., gross domestic product and urban population) and impervious surface area was investigated and both passed the significance test (p < 0.05), with a higher fit value in the former than the latter. Overall, urban land and its fractional land cover change in Africa during 2000–2020 promoted the well-being of human settlements, indicating the positive effect on environments.

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“…To reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, countries around the world have carried out a series of measures to deal with climate change (Yang et al, 2021a;Balsalobre-Lorente et al, 2022;Usman et al, 2022). Through unremitting endeavors lately, China has largely accomplished the Millennium Development Goals and became the world's second-biggest economy and the top exporter (Zhao et al, 2020;Irfan et al, 2021a;Koondhar et al, 2021;Zhao et al, 2021). To better cope with climate deterioration and assume the responsibility of great powers, the Chinese government affirms at the 70th United Nations General Assembly and Climate Summit to improve the 2015 Paris Agreement's carbon reduction goals (Abbasi et al, 2022).…”

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The effect of green finance and unemployment rate on carbon emissions in china

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China’s economy has developed rapidly since the reform and opening up, but under the long-term traditional extensive development model, energy consumption is excessive and carbon emissions rank first in the world. Therefore, how to reduce carbon emissions is a current hot issue in China. Although many scholars have found that green finance is the basic driving force to promote carbon emission reduction, its role path is diverse, and it still needs to be explored in width and depth. Especially in the green transformation stage of the economy, the potential unemployment risk is also a matter of concern. This study selects 30 provincial panel data from the Chinese mainland for the 2004–2019 years to investigate the impact of green finance on carbon emissions from the perspective of unemployment using ordinary least square (OLS), generalized method of moments (GMM), and mediating effect models. In addition, in order to avoid the bias of regression results caused by the cross-section dependence of the data, the feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) and the panel-corrected standard errors (PCSE) models are used for the robust test after correction. The findings show that 1) green finance has a significant inhibitory impact on carbon emissions; 2) green finance has significantly reduced the unemployment rate; 3) carbon emissions increase significantly with increasing the unemployment rate; and 4) there is regional heterogeneity in the effect of green finance on carbon emissions in eastern, central, and western China. Green finance in the eastern and central regions significantly inhibits carbon emissions, especially in the central region, while insignificantly in the western region. 5) According to the OLS and mediating effect regression results, economic growth and environmental regulation play a significant positive role in promoting carbon emissions. This study has theoretical reference significance for accelerating the realization of the dual carbon goal and alleviating phased unemployment.

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Bioenergy consumption, carbon emissions, and agricultural bioeconomic growth: A systematic approach to carbon neutrality in China

Cited by 113 publications

References 75 publications

China’s carbon neutrality: an extensive and profound systemic reform

China’s carbon neutrality: an extensive and profound systemic reform

Evaluating the Dynamic Changes of Urban Land and Its Fractional Covers in Africa from 2000–2020 Using Time Series of Remotely Sensed Images on the Big Data Platform

The effect of green finance and unemployment rate on carbon emissions in china

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