Does Emission Trading Boost Carbon Productivity? Evidence from China’s Pilot Emission Trading Scheme

Zhou, Di; Liang, Xiaoyu; Zhou, Ye; Tang, Kai

doi:10.3390/ijerph17155522

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“…For example, investigations found that household size, land ownership, profits, and agricultural products significantly impact IF use [11,85]. Furthermore, using ICTs could bring more nonagricultural employment opportunities to farmers/growers [47,[86][87][88], which may change farmers' behavior concerning IF use. Therefore, we added household size, asset, land, income, IT, and cereal crop as control variables.…”

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Toward Cleaner Production: Can Mobile Phone Technology Help Reduce Inorganic Fertilizer Application? Evidence Using a National Level Dataset

Khan

Ray

Kassem

et al. 2021

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Increasing agricultural production and optimizing inorganic fertilizer (IF) use are imperative for agricultural and environmental sustainability. Mobile phone usage (MPU) has the potential to reduce IF application while ensuring environmental and agricultural sustainability goals. The main objectives of this study were to assess MPU, mobile phone promotion policy, and whether the mediation role of human capital can help reduce IF use. This study used baseline regression analysis and propensity score matching, difference-in-differences (PSM-DID) to assess the impact of MPU on IF usage. However, the two-stage instrumental variables method (IVM) was used to study the effects of mobile phone promotion policy on IF usage. This study used a national dataset from 7,987 rural households in Afghanistan to investigate the impacts of MPU and associated promotion policies on IF application. The baseline regression outcomes showed that the MPU significantly reduced IF usage. The evaluation mechanism revealed that mobile phones help reduce IF application by improving the human capital of farmers. Besides, evidence from the DID technique showed that mobile phone promotion policies lowered IF application. These results remained robust after applying the PSM-DID method and two-stage IVM to control endogenous decisions of rural households. This study results imply that enhancing the accessibility of wideband in remote areas, promoting MPU, and increasing investment in information communication technologies (ICTs) infrastructure can help decrease the IF application in agriculture. Thus, the government should invest in remote areas to facilitate access to ICTs, such as having a telephone and access to a cellular and internet network to provide an environment and facility to apply IF effectively. Further, particular policy support must focus on how vulnerable populations access the internet and mobile phone technologies.

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Section: Sampling and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward Cleaner Production: Can Mobile Phone Technology Help Reduce Inorganic Fertilizer Application? Evidence Using a National Level Dataset

Khan

Ray

Kassem

et al. 2021

Land

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“…• Growth Following Tian and Zhang (2018), we control the impact of enterprises' development stage on green innovation and measure it by the growth rate of sale, defined as Growth. • Financial leverage A higher leverage level may constrain enterprise's ability to invest since it has to pay more interest and has less access to additional debt financing (Gentry & Shen, 2013;Gu et al, 2016;Zhou et al, 2020a). Following Gan and Xu (2019), we measure the financial leverage level by the ratio between liabilities and assets, defined as Lev.…”

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How does anti-corruption affect enterprise green innovation in China’s energy-intensive industries?

Chen

Lin

et al. 2021

Environ Geochem Health

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Rampant corruption exists in China's energy-intensive industries. However, we know little about the nexus of corruption and enterprise green innovation in China's energy-intensive industries. This paper discusses the impact of anti-corruption on enterprises' green innovation and its effect margin. Analyzing the panel data of Chinese listed enterprises in energy-intensive industries from 2009 to 2017, we find that anti-corruption played a positive role in stimulating enterprises' green innovation investments in energy-intensive industries. Then we adopt the instrumental variable approach and difference-indifferences model to alleviate the endogeneity problem. Moreover, we find that research and development investments from state-owned, high-tech enterprises and enterprises in the regions with more government intervention or weaker intellectual property protection were more prominent after the anti-corruption campaign. Finally, political connection played an intermediary role in this process, in which only the government-official political connection worked. Our results highlight the roles of enterprises' attributes and environmental characteristics as important factors in the relationship between anti-corruption and green innovation investments. Policymakers should enhance the control of corruption to boost green innovation in energy-intensive industries.

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“…In contrast, foreign trade in western China contributed the most to China’s increased carbon productivity but not in eastern and central China 21 . At the industry level, China’s pilot ETS boosted carbon productivity overall while being more effective in the petrochemical and electric power industries and less so in the building materials and transportation industries 24 .…”

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Effects of emission trading schemes on corporate carbon productivity and implications for firm-level responses

Jung

Song

Ahn

et al. 2021

Sci Rep

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Since the South Korean government enacted the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), companies have been striving to simultaneously improve productivity and reduce carbon emissions, which represent conflicting goals. We used firm-level emissions and corporate variables to investigate how ETS enactment has affected carbon productivity, which is a firm-level revenue created per unit of carbon emission. Results showed that firm-level carbon productivity increased significantly under the ETS, and such a trend was more evident for high-emission industries. We also found that companies with high carbon productivity were (1) profitable, (2) innovative, and (3) managed by CEOs with experience in environmental fields. These findings suggest that to achieve the conflicting goals of increasing corporate profits while reducing emissions, firms have to invest in green technologies, and such decisions are supported by green leadership. Our findings also have implications for corporate leadership; data highlight the importance of managing human resources and deploying investment policies to respond to ETS.

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Does Emission Trading Boost Carbon Productivity? Evidence from China’s Pilot Emission Trading Scheme

Cited by 60 publications

References 84 publications

Toward Cleaner Production: Can Mobile Phone Technology Help Reduce Inorganic Fertilizer Application? Evidence Using a National Level Dataset

Toward Cleaner Production: Can Mobile Phone Technology Help Reduce Inorganic Fertilizer Application? Evidence Using a National Level Dataset

How does anti-corruption affect enterprise green innovation in China’s energy-intensive industries?

Effects of emission trading schemes on corporate carbon productivity and implications for firm-level responses

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