Circular economy for clean energy transitions: A new opportunity under the COVID-19 pandemic

Su, Chang

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116666

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“…Casado-Aranda et al ( 2021 ) found that scientific publications on writing COVID-19 pandemic are flared with the mixing of strategies and policies that need to be confined to strategic thinking and operational procedures the meaningful and smart inferences. The more traces found from the recent literature that confirmed the viability of innovation and green production process to improve healthcare sustainability agenda, which is likely to reduce coronavirus cases (see Mohideen et al 2021 ; Arribas-Ibar et al 2021 ; Ranjbari et al 2021 ; Dean et al 2021 ; Su and Urban 2021 ; Wang et al 2021 ). Based on the stated scholarly contributions, the study proposed the following statement: H3: Green energy transition and R&D expenditures would likely support healthcare sustainability agendas to cope with coronavirus cases.…”

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Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The world faces a high alert of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), leading to a million deaths and could become infected to reach a billion numbers. A sizeable amount of scholarly work has been available on different aspects of social-economic and environmental factors. At the same time, many of these studies found the linear (direct) causation between the stated factors. In many cases, the direct relationship is not apparent. The world is unsure about the possible determining factors of the COVID-19 pandemic, which need to be known through conducting nonlinearity (indirect) relationships, which caused the pandemic crisis. The study examined the nonlinear relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages, managing financial development, renewable energy consumption, and innovative capability in a cross section of 65 countries. The results show that inbound foreign direct investment first increases and later decreases because of the increasing coronavirus cases. Further, the rise and fall in the research and development expenditures and population density exhibits increasing coronavirus cases across countries. The continued economic growth initial decreases later increase by adopting standardized operating procedures to contain coronavirus disease. The inter-temporal relationship shows that green energy source and carbon damages would likely influence the coronavirus cases with a variance of 17.127% and 5.440%, respectively, over a time horizon. The policymakers should be carefully designing sustainable healthcare policies, as the cost of carbon emissions leads to severe healthcare issues, which are likely to get exposed to contagious diseases, including COVID-19. The sustainable policy instruments, including renewable fuels in industrial production, advancement in cleaner production technologies, the imposition of carbon taxes on dirty production, and environmental certifications, are a few possible remedies that achieve healthcare sustainability agenda globally.

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Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

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“…Balwada et al (2021) Comprende el proceso de tomar, fabricar y desechar, utilizando sin control una cantidad de recursos perjudicial para el ambiente. Su et al (2021) Brinda una oportunidad como estrategia de mejora para el cambio de las actividades de una sociedad, afectando escenarios que no apliquen estas medidas.…”

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El cambio a envases sostenibles como estrategia competitiva de las empresas exportadoras. Un enfoque de Economía Circular

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En el ámbito de los mercados internacionales crece el interés por reducir el impacto ambiental de las actividades económicas. Los gobiernos de países desarrollados se van sumando a la definición de marcos regulatorios como un llamado a las industrias a explorar alternativas de producción en el marco de la Economía Circular. En este contexto, las empresas exportadoras se enfrentan a la necesidad de demostrar que pueden gestionar el cambio desde una Economía Lineal hacia un modelo de producción que integra acciones para recuperar, extraer, transformar y usar el material desechado de productos. El uso de envases sostenibles se identifica como una respuesta estratégica de las empresas globales, en aras de cubrir las expectativas de la sociedad y enfrentar las regulaciones de acceso a los mercados internacionales, a la vez que generan alternativas para mejorar su competitividad. Este artículo tiene por objetivo caracterizar la estrategia de cambio a envases sostenibles realizado por empresas exportadoras, mediante el método de estudio de casos aplicado a una selección de 10 empresas internacionales. Las fuentes de información corresponden a los informes de sostenibilidad y sitios web de las empresas objeto de estudio. Los principales hallazgos señalan que las exportadoras están empleando envases sostenibles como estrategia de adaptación, diferenciación e innovación. Finalmente, se concluye que la implementación del uso de envases biodegradables favorece la reputación de las empresas y el acceso de la oferta exportable a mercados exigentes.

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“…China successively proposed the "13th Five-Year Energy Development Plan" (NDRC, 2016a) and "Energy Production and Consumption Revolution Strategy (2016-2030)" (NDRC, 2016b), which clearly stated the future energy transformation pathway by reducing fossil energy consumption and carbon emissions. With the proposal of carbon neutrality commitment by 2060 (Mallapaty, 2020;Su and Urban, 2021), it is urgent and necessary to accelerate China's long-term low-carbon energy transformation (Huang and Zhai, 2021;Zhou et al, 2021).…”

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“…Traditional energy has supported China's economic growth in the past decades. However, the environmental destruction and the limited fossil fuel resource endowment pose growing challenges (Dai et al, 2016;Mittal et al, 2016;Su and Urban, 2021). Some studies projected that carbon emissions would exceed 18 GtCO 2 by 2030 if China keeps the current energy structure and economic development pattern (Chi et al, 2014;Duan et al, 2018).…”

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Could China's Long-term Low-carbon Energy Transformation Achieve the Double Dividend Effect for the Economy and Environment?

Wang

et al. 2021

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Achieving low-carbon energy transformation is vital for coordinating economic growth and environmental improvement to satisfy the carbon emissions peak and carbon neutrality targets. Existing studies, however, have been dominated by the mere exploration of the low-carbon transformation pathway with little consideration of the importance of energy substitution in low-carbon transformation. Doing so is believably unable to gain the double dividend effect for the economy and environment. Accordingly, this paper develops three energy-target scenarios, taking into account energy structure, electrification level, and carbon mitigation targets by 2030 announced by the Chinese government. A dynamic multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium model, CHINAGEM, is employed to examine the economic and environmental effects under different pathways of long-term low-carbon transformation. Firstly, we detect that China's primary energy consumption and electricity production structure would substantially transfer to low-carbon and clean along with all three energy-target scenarios. Secondly, due to the anticipated decline of fossil energy consumption, especially coal consumption, China's CO2, SO2, and NOX emissions in 2020-2030 would also possibly vastly abate with all the scenarios. Besides, it is highly conceivable for China to achieve its peak carbon emission of 12.4 GtCO2 in 2028 if it serves the comparatively more stringent low-carbon transformation pathways. Lastly, different pathways would also produce varying positive impacts on China's macro-economy and achieve the different extent of double dividend effects. The research concludes with a recommendation of tentative improvement policies towards low-carbon transformation under the carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, including promoting energy substitution, renewable energy development, and low-carbon technologies.

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Circular economy for clean energy transitions: A new opportunity under the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 106 publications

References 47 publications

Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

Nonlinearity in the relationship between COVID-19 cases and carbon damages: controlling financial development, green energy, and R&D expenditures for shared prosperity

El cambio a envases sostenibles como estrategia competitiva de las empresas exportadoras. Un enfoque de Economía Circular

Could China's Long-term Low-carbon Energy Transformation Achieve the Double Dividend Effect for the Economy and Environment?

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