Study on the synergistic effect of foreign trade, technological progress, and carbon emissions

Zhang, Guohua; Wang, Hao; Hua, Xian-Sheng; Liao, Yiyi; Peng, Lin

doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.971534

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“…Scholars mainly use Kaya identity (Ma and Cai, 2018;Eskander and Nitschke, 2021), Divisia index method (Ma and Cai, 2018;Eskander and Nitschke, 2021), and Laspeyres index decomposition method (González and Martínez, 2012;Chen et al, 2021) decompose the influencing factors of carbon emissions. Although the conclusions of different methods are different, it is generally believed that technological innovation (Zhang G. et al, 2022), energy structure (Pui and Othman, 2019), industrial structure (Han and Jiang, 2022), and economic growth (Xiao and Peng, 2023) are the main factors affecting carbon emissions.…”

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Does digital economy development reduce carbon emission intensity?

2023

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Carbon emissions from human activities are the main cause of climate warming. Under the background of economic and social digital transformation, accurately assessing the carbon emission reduction effect of the development of the digital economy is of great significance for countries to deal with climate warming in the post-COVID-19 era. This paper constructs a dynamic evaluation model of orthogonal projection to measure the level of digital economy development at the provincial level in China from 2007 to 2019. On this basis, the panel fixed effects model and mediation model are used to empirically test the impact of digital economy development on carbon emission intensity and its mechanism. The results indicate that: (1) The development of China’s digital economy is unbalanced among regions, showing a geospatial pattern of decreasing from east to west. (2) China’s carbon emission intensity has a trend of decreasing year by year, and there are geospatial differences of “high in the west and low in the east” and “high in the north and low in the south.” (3) The digital economy development can effectively reduce regional carbon emission intensity through industrial structure optimization effect and resource allocation effect, and the industrial structure optimization effect can suppress carbon emission intensity more obviously. (4) The development of digital economy in different regions has different degrees of reducing carbon emission intensity. The development of digital economy in the eastern region has a stronger inhibitory effect on carbon emission intensity than that in the middle and western regions, and the development of digital economy in economically developed regions can suppress carbon emission intensity more. This paper provides enlightenment for policy makers to deal with climate warming.

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Section: Digital Economy Development and Carbon Emission Intensitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Does digital economy development reduce carbon emission intensity?

2023

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“…Finally, most studies neglected the impact of reducing carbon emissions on trade while concentrating primarily on the one-way effect of foreign trade on carbon emissions. In the last article, Zhang et al (2022) examined the dynamic interactions between global business, technological innovation and carbon emissions via the panel vector autoregressive model. They demonstrated that whereas international trade and carbon emissions were mutually hindering, technological advancement and improving carbon emissions mutually supported each other.…”

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Editorial: Social media, artificial intelligence and carbon neutrality

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2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Under the constraints of the twin carbon targets of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, it is essential to study how to achieve a reduction in corporate carbon emissions. Zhang et al (2022) argue that the responsibility for carbon emissions lies with firms rather than consumers. In terms of supply and demand theory, the price of carbon depends on the government's supply of carbon credits and firms' demand for carbon credits.…”

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Research on the impact of exchange rates and interest rates on carbon price changes in the context of sustainable development

2023

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Carbon emissions are closely linked to a company’s production activities. The amount of carbon allowances a company holds determines its carbon emissions. Changes in carbon prices interact with firms’ production activities, while changes in exchange rates and interest rates have a direct impact on firms’ production structure, willingness to produce and scale of production. Under the existing literature, most scholars have selected only one market to be used to study its influence on the carbon market. In this paper, the exchange rate market and the interest rate market are selected for the study of the impact of both on the carbon market, using the following empirical analysis methods: DCC-GARCH, TVP-VAR and GA-BP neural network. The empirical results show that interest rates are positively linked to carbon prices, while exchange rates are more negatively linked to carbon prices; exchange rates are less affected by macro factors and external shocks, while interest rates are the opposite and very sensitive to macro shocks; under the training and simulation of the neural network, carbon prices can fluctuate drastically under the combined influence of exchange rate and interest rate movements, which can provide appropriate early warning of future price fluctuations in carbon trading. This shows that adjustments to exchange rates and interest rates need to be treated with caution, and appropriate adjustments should be made to keep carbon prices stable; the government should build a mechanism to transform the green development of enterprises, pushing them to save energy and reduce emissions to achieve low-carbon transformational development; the government should not only introduce policies to support low-carbon enterprises, but also improve the national carbon market laws and regulations and price regulation mechanisms.

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Study on the synergistic effect of foreign trade, technological progress, and carbon emissions

Cited by 4 publications

References 53 publications

Does digital economy development reduce carbon emission intensity?

Does digital economy development reduce carbon emission intensity?

Editorial: Social media, artificial intelligence and carbon neutrality

Research on the impact of exchange rates and interest rates on carbon price changes in the context of sustainable development

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