Does Renewable Energy Consumption Successfully Promote the Green Transformation of China’s Industry?

Han, Dongri; Li, Tuochen; Feng, Shaosong; Shi, Ziyi

doi:10.3390/en13010229

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“…Table 1 shows the inputs of various biological accounts and energy accounts and the elements of input-output listed in Table 2 are selected after careful consideration in the study. (Han et al 2020). In this paper, the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption in primary energy consumption is applied to characterize the degree of renewable energy consumption.…”

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Does renewable energy consumption contribute to the development of low-carbon economy? Evidence from China

Shi

Han

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Stimulating renewable energy consumption has become a major strategic choice for China to both fulfill the international commitment to reduce carbon emissions and realize the high-quality growth of the domestic economy. On account of the provincial data during the period of 2000 to 2017, we creatively incorporate the ecological footprint into the measurement of low-carbon economy development level through super-efficient SBM model, so as to infer the coordinated development level of 3E system more precisely. Based on factor substitution effect, energy path dependence effect and scale effect, the complex nonlinear relationship between the two core research objects is further probed by constructing the threshold regressive model. On the foundation of heoretical research, the consumption of renewable energy, the intensity of energy use and the level of regional economic development are respectively selected as the moderating variables of the model. Further, we divide different intervals of threshold values to distinguish the differences in the effects caused by regional heterogeneity. The following conclusions are drawed ultimately: There is an apparent threshold effect between the renewables consumption and the advancement of low-carbon economy. Only when the renewable itself reaches a higher level of consumption, can it show a significant advantage in green economic development. In addition, to make full use of the renewable resources to boost low-carbon and green economy, it is necessary to reduce the economy's dependence on energy, that is, to decrease the intensity of energy use, while maintaining the process of improving coordination of regional economy.

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Does renewable energy consumption contribute to the development of low-carbon economy? Evidence from China

Shi

Han

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…On the one hand, natural resources guarantee the sustainable economic growth of the region, especially under the effect of green policies, resource-based industries are forced to carry out green transformation and upgrading (Kesidou and Demirel, 2012;Chakraborty and Chatterjee, 2017). On the other hand, the development of resource-based industries produces problems such as rent-seeking and corruption; "crowding-out" innovative development, technological change, and human capital; aggravating the burden of ecological environment and environmental problems; and thus inhibiting the green transformation of resource-based cities (He et al, 2017;Han et al, 2020). The richer the natural resources, the lower the green total factor productivity (Cheng et al, 2020).…”

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Does Innovative Development Drive Green Economic Growth in Resource-Based Cities? Evidence From China

Zhang

Yan

Ren

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Seeking innovative development has become a necessity for global cities because of the accelerating consumption of natural resources and the increasing need for urgent control of environmental pollution. However, few studies have reported on the effect of innovative development on the green economic growth of resource-based cities. Therefore, this study aimed to construct the SBM model of unexpected output to measure the efficiency of green economic growth using data of 108 resource-based cities in China from 2004 to 2018, and to analyze the impact of innovative development and resource endowment on green economic growth using the systematic Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) model. The following results were obtained: first, the green economic growth efficiency of resource-based cities exhibited a general trend of fluctuation and rise, but the efficiency of different resource-based cities was different in time and space. Second, although innovative development promoted the green economic growth of resource-based cities, the impact of different resource-based cities was heterogeneous. Innovative development promoted the green economic growth of resource-based cities in eastern China, comprehensive cities, metal cities, growth cities, and renewable cities. However, it had an inhibitory effect on the green economic growth of northeast China, west China, and oil–gas and nonmetal resource–based cities, but no significant effect on the green economic growth of other resource-based cities. Third, the nonlinear effect of resource endowment on the green economic growth of resource-based cities was not significant, but resource endowment had a “curse” effect on green economic growth. Meanwhile, heterogeneity analysis showed two effects of resource endowment on the green economic growth in different resource-based cities: curse and blessing. Fourth, the impact of innovative development on the green economic growth of resource-based cities was moderated by resource endowment. The impact of innovative development on green economic growth decreased with the increase in resource endowment. Therefore, resource-based cities should not only constantly increase innovation and improve resource utilization efficiency but also actively promote coordination and cooperation of regional resource-based industries so as to achieve green and sustainable development.

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“…The view that energy transition can promote environmental protection has been recognized by most scholars [27]. For example, Lin et al [28] analyzed Ghana's panel data and proposed that the energy transition is a key element to control Ghana's carbon dioxide emissions.…”

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Energy Consumption Transformation, Cleaner Production, and Regional Carbon Productivity in China: Evidence Based on a Panel Threshold Model

Ding

Han

2021

IEEE Access

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It has become an urgent issue for all countries to ease the sharp conflict between economic growth and ecological conservation. The fundamental way to achieve low-carbon economic growth is to make the energy consumption structure upgrade and develop towards a cleaner direction. Standing at the point of clean production, this study empirically analyses the nonlinear mechanism of the transformation of energy consumption structure on China's regional carbon productivity by using the threshold model based on the inter-provincial data from 2009 to 2017 (30 provinces in China). The research shows that there are significant differences in cleaner production levels in different parts of China. In contrast, the cleaner production capacity in most regions has been significantly improved during the sample period. It shows the energy consumption structure transformation has a remarkable double threshold effect on regional carbon productivity in China. While clean production keeps crossing the threshold value, the effect direction of energy consumption transformation on regional carbon productivity changes from negative to positive, with both the coefficient value and significance increasing. According to the research results, the paper focuses on adjusting energy resource consumption and improving the clean production level. Eventually, some policy inspirations are proposed for the lower emissions and sustainable process of the Chinese economy.INDEX TERMS Energy consumption transformation, cleaner production, regional carbon productivity, threshold model, heterogeneity, china.

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Does Renewable Energy Consumption Successfully Promote the Green Transformation of China’s Industry?

Cited by 24 publications

References 21 publications

Does renewable energy consumption contribute to the development of low-carbon economy? Evidence from China

Does renewable energy consumption contribute to the development of low-carbon economy? Evidence from China

Does Innovative Development Drive Green Economic Growth in Resource-Based Cities? Evidence From China

Energy Consumption Transformation, Cleaner Production, and Regional Carbon Productivity in China: Evidence Based on a Panel Threshold Model

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