Energy poor need more energy, but do they need more carbon? Evaluation of people's basic carbon needs

Okushima, Shinichiro

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107081

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“…Apart from energy transition, the emission reduction in building sector as the vital part of the carbon neutrality transition (Zhang et al,2022) may be another potential solution to alleviating energy poverty. Energy poverty has mutual effects with carbon emissions (Okushima, 2021), the increasing energy consumption in the operation of commercial buildings results in a large amount of carbon emissions (Li et al, 2022b). Measuring and reducing carbon emissions from buildings (Xiang et al, 2022) can balance the relationship between carbon emissions and energy poverty.…”

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Assessing the effect of energy poverty on the mental and physical health in China—Evidence from China family panel studies

Xie

Lou

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Front. Energy Res.

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Energy poverty is a crucial issue faced by countries all around the world, as the largest developing country in the world, China is also experiencing energy poverty problems. In order to explore the health effect of energy poverty in China, this paper first uses the principal component analysis (PCA) to construct a comprehensive index to measure energy poverty, and then adopts the ordinary least square method (OLS), fixed effect model (FE), instrumental variable two-stage least squares (IV-2SLS) regression to study the impact of energy poverty on the physical and mental health of Chinese people based on China Family Panel Studies 2018 (CFPS 2018). The study discovers that energy poverty significantly hampers the mental and physical health of Chinese people, an increase in energy poverty might cause 28.74%、18.69% decrease in mental and physical health respectively. Moreover, this paper further explores the influencing paths of energy poverty by intermediary effect and regulatory effect. It is revealed that in addition to directly affecting physical and mental health, energy poverty also have a negative impact on physical and mental health by affecting the accessibility of a series of resources, such as water and food, reducing the opportunities for physical exercise and increasing medical expenses. However, the impact is restricted by age and family income. Finally, under the national strategy of China, this paper further discusses how to give consideration to the joint implementation of heath and emission reduction strategies, then gives specific policy suggestions based on the results.

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Assessing the effect of energy poverty on the mental and physical health in China—Evidence from China family panel studies

Xie

Lou

et al. 2022

Front. Energy Res.

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“…As shown in previous literature, determining an adequate level of DES use requires considering the difference in people's energy needs [14,15]. Taking Japan as an example, Fig.…”

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“…Here, DES use is measured by energy consumption for domestic energy services use (in GJ) and equivalized with the square root of household size to correct for economies of scale [16,17]. To define the range meaning the ES level, the study set the lower threshold of each type as 60% of the median of DES use (in GJ), following EP studies [15][16][17], and set the upper threshold of each type as twice the median [18,19]. 34…”

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“…3 There is considerable debate on how such thresholds must be set, but here, it has not been discussed due to space limitations (see e.g. [15,20]). 4 Notably, for identifying people in EP, this study adds an income threshold to avoid the possibility of false positives; then, EP is multidimensionally identified with the thresholds of both DES use and income dimensions.…”

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“…4 Notably, for identifying people in EP, this study adds an income threshold to avoid the possibility of false positives; then, EP is multidimensionally identified with the thresholds of both DES use and income dimensions. For more information, see [13,15]. Regarding the dataset, this study used unique microdata on Japanese households' energy use and CO2 emissions in 2018.…”

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How to evaluate energy sufficiency: A direct measurement approach

Shinichiro¹,

Okushima²

2022

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This study presents a novel approach to measuring energy sufficiency, which can identify whether people really satisfy an adequate level of domestic energy services, considering their diverse energy needs. The result, applying the method to the case of Japan, clarifies the characteristics of people in energy sufficiency, and those of the energy poor and energy extravagant. The study also demonstrates that reducing inequalities in access to low-carbon energy or technology is a major challenge in engendering an inclusive low-carbon energy transition.

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