Can market segmentation lead to green paradox? Evidence from China

Lai, Aolin; Wang, Qunwei; Cui, Liaobiao

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2022.124390

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“…In order to sort out the panel data of the market segmentation degree of each city at each time, this study conducted an intra-group weighted average for all the combinations containing city x to obtain the market segmentation index. For the price P in Equation ( 2), this study is based on the availability of city-level data and existing studies [69,70] and is represented by the price index of eight commodities, namely food, beverages, tobacco and alcohol products, clothing, household appliances, education, culture and entertainment, daily necessities and services, transportation and communication supplies, and medical care [71,72]. The market segmentation degree of all commodities at the city level is shown in Equation ( 6):…”

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Blue Sky Protection Campaign: Assessing the Role of Digital Technology in Reducing Air Pollution

Shen,

Zhang

2024

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Air pollution severely threatens people’s health and sustainable economic development. In the era of the digital economy, modern information technology is profoundly changing the way governments govern, the production mode of enterprises, and the living behavior of residents. Whether digital technology can bring ecological welfare needs to be further studied. Based on panel data from 269 Chinese cities from 2006 to 2021, this study empirically examines the impact of digital technology on air pollution by using the two-way fixed effect model. The results show that digital technology will significantly reduce the concentration of fine particles in the air and help protect the atmospheric environment. The results are still valid after using the interactive fixed effect model and the two-stage least square method after the robustness test and causality identification. Digital technology can also reduce the air pollution by promoting green innovation, improving energy efficiency, and easing market segmentation. The effect of digital technology on reducing the concentration of fine particles in the air is heterogeneous. Digital technology plays a more substantial role in reducing pollution in resource-based cities and areas with a high degree of modernization of the commodity supply chain. The positive effect of digital technology in reducing air pollution is affected by the amount of air pollutants emitted. When the concentration of PM2.5 in the air is high, the role of digital technology in protecting the atmosphere will be strongly highlighted. This research is a beneficial exploration of protecting the atmospheric environment by using digital technology while building an ecological civilization society. The conclusion will help urban managers, the public, and business operators entirely use modern equipment such as 5G, remote sensing, and the Internet of Things in their respective fields to protect the atmospheric environment.

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Blue Sky Protection Campaign: Assessing the Role of Digital Technology in Reducing Air Pollution

Shen,

Zhang

2024

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“…The second viewpoint is that there is a green paradox phenomenon in the impact of environmental regulations on carbon emissions, which means that environmental regulations can lead to an increase in carbon emissions. For example, Lai et al found through data from 30 provinces in China that under the influence of market segmentation, environmental regulations can actually lead to an increase in carbon emissions [32]. Huang et al also found that there is a green paradox in the impact of environmental regulation on carbon emissions through the study of China's provincial panel data [33].…”

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Impact of Environmental Regulation and Industrial Agglomeration on Carbon Emissions in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

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Carbon reduction is an important aspect of achieving high-quality environmental development; environmental regulation and industrial agglomeration are important ways to affect carbon emissions. Therefore, studying the relationship between industrial agglomeration, environmental regulation, and carbon emissions has important theoretical and practical significance. Firstly, this article adopts the method of location entropy to measure the indicators of industrial agglomeration. Secondly, it proposes an environmental regulation indicator system based on the experience of previous scholars and measures the environmental regulation indicators using the entropy method. Next, eight types of energy consumption are used to measure carbon emissions based on the carbon emission coefficient method provided by the IPCC. Finally, based on the Moran index, the spatial correlation of carbon emission levels in various regions of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is tested. A spatial econometric model was introduced to explore the relationship between industrial agglomeration, environmental regulation, and carbon emissions at a deeper level, and the following conclusions were drawn: (1) The regression coefficient of the spatial term of industrial agglomeration on carbon emissions is 0.848, which is significantly positive at the 10% level, indicating that under the influence of spatial effects, industrial agglomeration has a significant promoting effect on carbon emissions. (2) The regression coefficient of the spatial term of environmental regulation on carbon emissions is −0.011, which is significantly negative at the 10% level, indicating that environmental regulation has an inhibitory effect on carbon emissions under the influence of spatial effects. Based on the above conclusions, useful suggestions have been provided for optimizing industrial structure, improving environmental regulation levels, and alleviating carbon emission issues.

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“…Especially, under unfavorable weather conditions, severe air pollution occurs frequently. Even though "Binding" is an essential characteristic of environmental regulation, in inefficient, segmented market or under given conditions, some environmental regulations do not necessarily benefit air quality and even possibly the opposite, a phenomenon known as "green paradox" 1,2,3,4 . As one of the mandatory environmental regulation tools, the AAQS, have attracted attention from academia since its release.…”

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“…This phenomenon is known as the "green paradox. " [1][2][3][4] One of the mandatory tools in environmental regulation, the AAQS, has garnered attention from the academic community since its introduction. Moreover, due to variations in research methods, samples, perspectives, and other factors, the impact of implementing the AAQS is still subject to debate.…”

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The Ambient Air Quality Standards, green innovation, and urban air quality: Evidence from China

Zhang,

2023

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As the Chinese economy entering the transition period, the environmental issues have become the one of most concerned topics. Based on panel data of 284 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2006-2019, this study discusses the regulatory effects of the Ambient Air Quality Standards (AAQS) on urban air quality and its spatial spillover using the various DID models, and further builds a serial multiple mediation model to analyze the channel role of green innovation. The results reveal that (1) the implementation of the AAQS has a positive regulation effect on urban air quality, yet with a “inverted V-shaped” trend; (2) local implementation of the AAQS worsens the air quality of geographically adjacent cities within 400 km, while the effect is reversed for cities that are beyond 400 km; (3) heterogeneity analysis shows that the AAQS improves the air quality of central cities, medium-sized cities, cities of weak-intensity of environmental governance, recession or regeneration resource-based cities; and (4) it might reduce urban air quality only by inducing the green innovation per se. However, either by energy-use effect or industrial-structure effect triggered by the green innovation, can the AAQS favorably enhance urban air quality.

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Can market segmentation lead to green paradox? Evidence from China

Cited by 22 publications

References 52 publications

Blue Sky Protection Campaign: Assessing the Role of Digital Technology in Reducing Air Pollution

Blue Sky Protection Campaign: Assessing the Role of Digital Technology in Reducing Air Pollution

Impact of Environmental Regulation and Industrial Agglomeration on Carbon Emissions in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

The Ambient Air Quality Standards, green innovation, and urban air quality: Evidence from China

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