Green and Digital Economy for Sustainable Development of Urban Areas

Assessing the Impact of the Digital Economy on Green Total Factor Energy Efficiency in the Post-COVID-19 Era

“…Meanwhile, digital technology helps cut down information cost, storage cost, and management costs in the process of energy utilization of enterprises, thus reducing energy consumption and improving the energy efficiency of enterprises (Kinelski, 2020). The openness and sharing characteristics of the digital platform effectively reduce the information cost in the process of energy utilization of enterprises, including the purchase information search cost, selection cost, and risk avoidance, as well as reduce the waste of resources caused by information asymmetry during energy utilization (Savchenko and Borodina, 2020). Finally, through the digital platform, enterprises can keep abreast of the energy market situation, realize the effective docking of energy demand and energy market, minimize the energy inventory of enterprises, effectively reduce energy storage costs, and enhance GTFEE.…”

The Impact of the Digital Economy on China's Carbon Emissions

“…With the rapid development of digital economy, scholars gradually began to study the impact of digital economy development on industrial structure optimization (Su et al, 2021) [36], urbanization construction (Chen et al, 2022) [37] and green growth (Ren et al, 2022) [38] with the help of panel data model and Spatial Dubin Model. Focusing on the social effects of digital economy, the linkage between green economy and digital economy contributes to the coordinated development of urban economy and the improvement of people's sense of well-being, thus promoting the elimination of urban polarization and the gradual realization of sustainable development (Savchenko 2020) [39].…”

Go green in a greener world

“…A green economy model can be considered an economic model for sustainable development, promoting advancement and sustainability in social, economic, and environmental terms (Del Vecchio et al, 2021;Heong et al, 2016). The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) defines the Green Economy as a socially inclusive, low-carbon, and energyefficient economic model that significantly reduces environmental risks and improves social welfare (Savchenko & Borodina, 2020). In addition, the green economy, supported by public and private investment, will bring about employment and income growth while reducing pollution, improving energy and resource efficiency, and promoting biodiversity and ecosystem conservation (Netto & Menengola, 2021;Sharpe & Martinez-Fernandez, 2021).…”

“…On the other hand, businesses also need to acquire new skills to cope with the impacts of climate change. Training can strengthen business management capacities to encourage the adoption of innovative and environmentally friendly technologies, human resource development, and productivity improvement (Adarina et al, 2020;Savchenko & Borodina, 2020;Taverner et al, 2021) As a result, many Latin American member states have already begun to take steps to promote green growth: Costa Rica introduced a low-carbon agenda in 2009, intending to become carbon neutral by 2021, while the Mexican government has also taken steps to reform the energy sector to make the transition to clean energy. Chile is taking steps to implement its Green Growth Strategy, while Colombia implements a Low Carbon Development Strategy to promote growth in sectors that generate fewer GHG emissions (Cárdenas & Guzmán, 2020;Cárdenas et al, 2022).…”