Newest Trends and Future Scenarios for a Sustainable Digital Economy Development

Digital economy, spatial spillover and industrial green innovation efficiency: Empirical evidence from China

“…However, the “energy rebound effect” would aggravate pollution emissions. Based on this, Li et al (2021) utilized a sample of global panel data including 190 countries, and confirmed the existence of an inverted u-shaped nonlinear relationship between the digital economy and carbon dioxide emissions, which is in line with the EKC hypothesis [ 22 ]; Shvakov and Petrova (2019) collected data from the ten most digitized countries, showing that the rapid pace of digitalization has led to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions [ 23 ]; The research findings of Yu and Zhu (2022) also showed that by promoting economic expansion, the digital economy greatly increased the carbon emissions of most provinces in China [ 24 ]. On the contrary, Chen (2022) found that the digital economy significantly reduced the carbon emissions of most BRICS countries in the short and long run during the sample period from 1990 to 2018 [ 25 ].…”

Towards Industry 5.0 and Digital Circular Economy: Current Research and Application Trends

“…Following a correlation analysis method, the authors in [8] investigate Digital CE trends, while examining different usecases and identifying the most sustainable solution. Findings of the research support the appearance of conflict between the general and green economy, as well as the negative impact of digitalization in terms of growth rate for unprepared countries.…”

Impact of Digital Economy Development on Carbon Emission Efficiency: A Spatial Econometric Analysis Based on Chinese Provinces and Cities

“…On the other hand, the development of a digital economy contributes to influencing carbon productivity [ 9 ] as well as energy consumption structure and utilization efficiency by optimizing the resource allocation structure, improving the utilization rate of production resources [ 10 ], upgrading industrial structure [ 11 ], and promoting green technology innovation, which in turn reduces the carbon emission intensity [ 12 ]. However, some studies have argued that the digitization of the economy will impose a heavier burden on the environment [ 13 ], and the speedy development of digital industries will lead to a rapid increase in energy consumption, and consequently results in increased carbon emissions [ 14 ]. Although there have been abundant studies on the relationship between the digital economy and carbon emissions which have confirmed the spatial heterogeneity between them [ 15 ], no study has yet deeply analyzed the relationship between the impact of the digital economy on carbon emission efficiency.…”