How energy service companies moderate the impact of industrialization and urbanization on carbon emissions in China?

Zheng, Saina; Wang, Ran; Mak, Tiffany M.W.; Hsu, Shu-Chien; Tsang, Daniel C.W.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141610

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“…Next, we explored whether solar radiation moderates the relationship between human mobility and COVID-19 infection using Model 2 (Equation ( 3 )). The variables were centered before the interaction term was calculated to avoid multicollinearity (Zheng et al 2021 ). The model was expressed as follows: where β 0 is the intercept and β 1 , β 2 , β 3 , β 4 , and β 5 are the corresponding coefficients.…”

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The moderating effect of solar radiation on the association between human mobility and COVID-19 infection in Europe

Zhao

Zhu

Xie

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a global pandemic. Some studies have suggested a negative association between sunlight intensity and COVID-19 infection, alluding to the belief that it might be safe to go out on sunny days. This paper examined whether solar radiation mitigated the association between human mobility and COVID-19 infection in Europe using a dynamic panel data model to investigate the effect of human mobility, solar radiation, and their interaction on COVID-19 infection. The results revealed that outgoing mobility was positively correlated and solar radiation was negatively correlated with COVID-19 infection at lag levels of 1, 2, and 3 weeks. The coefficients of the interaction items indicated that solar radiation negatively moderated the relationship between outgoing mobility and the number of daily new confirmed cases at 2- and 3-week lag levels. However, the moderating effect was limited and unable to eliminate the positive effect of outgoing mobility on COVID-19 infection. Thus, these results suggested that solar radiation only weakly mitigated the relationship between human mobility and COVID-19 infection, providing policy implications that mobility should still be restricted on sunny days during the COVID-19 pandemic. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-15738-w.

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The moderating effect of solar radiation on the association between human mobility and COVID-19 infection in Europe

Zhao

Zhu

Xie

et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…(2020) discovered a U-shaped interconnection between CO 2 emissions and urbanization in SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation). Zheng et al (2021) detected a negative connection between CO 2 emissions and urbanization in China. Asongu et al (2020) found a positive interaction between CO 2 emissions and urbanization employing the PMG-ARDL in 13 selected countries in Africa for the period between 1980 and 2014.…”

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Load Capacity Factor and Financial Globalization in Brazil: The Role of Renewable Energy and Urbanization

Salem

Awosusi

et al. 2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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To mitigate environmental challenges and fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals, a broader and holistic ecological assessment is required. As a result, this research utilizes the load capacity factor, which is a distinct proxy of environmental deterioration that offers a detailed environmental evaluation measurement by comparing biocapacity and ecological footprint simultaneously. Moreover, the load capacity factor provides the combined attributes of the demand and supply-side of environmental quality. Therefore, this research scrutinized the effect of financial globalization, urbanization, economic growth, and renewable and nonrenewable energy usage on load capacity factor for the period stretching between 1970 and 2017 in Brazil. The bounds testing procedure for cointegration in combination with the critical approximation p-values of Kripfganz and Schneider (2018) disclosed a cointegrating association between load capacity and its regressors. The outcome of the ARDL method uncovered that economic growth, non-renewable and renewable energy reduce the load capacity factor, whereas urbanization has no impact on load capacity factor in Brazil. However, financial globalization has a positive effect on load capacity factor in Brazil. Finally, the study uses the spectral causality test to assess the causality interaction between the observed parameters. The policymakers should take advantage of the opportunity by developing policies that encourage the openness of the economy to foreign investors.

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“…In addition to an investigation of the direct impacts of FDI inflows on carbon emissions, this study also further examines the moderating effects of economic development and regulatory quality. Following the approaches of Ehigiamusoe et al (2020), Zheng et al (2021), the moderated regressions are specified as follows:…”

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The Impacts of FDI Inflows on Carbon Emissions: Economic Development and Regulatory Quality as Moderators

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With the accelerated development of the global economy, environmental issues have gradually become prominent, which in turn hinders further high-quality economic development. As one of the important driving factors, cross-border flowing foreign direct investment (FDI) has played a vital role in promoting economic development, but has also caused environmental degradation in most host countries. Utilizing panel data for the G20 economies from 1996 to 2018, the purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of FDI inflows on carbon emissions, and further explore the influence channels through the moderating effects of economic development and regulatory quality. To produce more robust and accurate results in this study, the approach of the feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) is utilized. Meanwhile, this study also specifies the heteroscedasticity and correlated errors due to the large differences and serial correlations among the G20 economies. The results indicate that FDI inflows are positively associated with carbon emissions, as well as both economic development and regulatory quality negatively contribute to the impacts of FDI inflows on carbon emissions. It implies that although FDI inflows tend to increase the emissions of carbon dioxide, they are more likely to mitigate carbon emissions in countries with higher levels of economic development and regulatory quality. Therefore, the findings are informative for policymakers to formulate effective policies to help mitigate carbon emissions and eliminate environmental degradation.

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How energy service companies moderate the impact of industrialization and urbanization on carbon emissions in China?

Cited by 85 publications

References 65 publications

The moderating effect of solar radiation on the association between human mobility and COVID-19 infection in Europe

The moderating effect of solar radiation on the association between human mobility and COVID-19 infection in Europe

Load Capacity Factor and Financial Globalization in Brazil: The Role of Renewable Energy and Urbanization

The Impacts of FDI Inflows on Carbon Emissions: Economic Development and Regulatory Quality as Moderators

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