The impact of energy consumption on environment and public health in China

Qu, Weihua; Xu, Ling; Qu, Guohua; Yan, Zhijun; Wang, Jianxiu

doi:10.1007/s11069-017-2787-5

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“…Environmental pollution is mostly generated from production and consumption of especially fossil-based energy sources. 4 Therefore, as presented by the literature, many researchers 5–33 have been examining the long-run relationship between energy consumption and environmental pollution.…”

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The long-run environmental impacts of economic growth, financial development, and energy consumption: Evidence from emerging markets

Çetin

Bakirtaş

2019

Energy & Environment

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In this study, the long-term interactions between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, real gross domestic product, fossil fuel consumption, and financial development are examined for 15 emerging markets during 1980–2014 by using heterogeneous dynamic panel data techniques. Long-run elasticity results show that the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis is not valid for emerging markets. Besides, long-run findings reveal that fossil fuel energy consumption has a powerful negative impact on the environmental quality of emerging markets. Moreover, long-run findings of emerging markets show that 1% increase in financial development raises CO2 emissions at 0.76% level. Considering empirical findings, emerging markets should tend to use environmentally friendly technologies to avoid the possible environmental problems caused by pollution. Therefore, green energy investors should be supported by possible incentive policies. In addition, emerging markets should turn towards financial regulations, which extend credit channels for clean industries whereby emerging countries could achieve their sustainable development goals.

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The long-run environmental impacts of economic growth, financial development, and energy consumption: Evidence from emerging markets

Çetin

Bakirtaş

2019

Energy & Environment

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“…Lung cancer was the result of the long-term exposure to environmental factors. Qu et al analyzed the short-term, and long-term relationship between energy consumption, environmental pollution and public health in China from 1985 to 2014, and found that the proportion of coal consumption, smoke and dust emissions, and other effects on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are signi cantly positively correlated in the short and long term (Qu 2017). This suggested that a long-term effort was needed to reduce the impact of carbon emissions on lung cancer rates.…”

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Study on Long-Term Exposure to Carbon Emissions and Lung Cancer Incidence Rate in China

Lin

Wang

et al. 2021

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Background: This study has shown the incidence of lung cancer in association with exposure to air pollution. We investigated the relationship, focusing on long-term exposure to carbon emissions (CE) and lung cancer incidence rate (LIR) in China.Methods: We collected the incidence rate of lung cancer from 2013 to 2015, and the data of carbon emissions from 1997 to 2015. We modeled the panel data of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2013 to 2015 and applied a spatial Durbin model (SDM) to explore the spatial effect of CE on the LIR. Pearson test to determine the long-term impact of CE on LIR.Findings: The results showed that the direct effect coefficient of CE and UR were 0.132 and 0.425, respectively, both significant at a 1% level, which showed that CE and UR had an obvious positive effect on LIR. The value of Moran’s I indicated that there was a positive spatial correlation between the LIR and CE in China from 2013 to 2015, while the indirect effect coefficient of all the variables was nonsignificant at a 10% level, which indicated that CE had not impact on the LIR of its surrounding areas. on the whole, the effect cofficient of CE is 0.005 ,which is significant at a 1% level, which points out that the average effect of a change in CE in a certain region on LIR in all regions. Therefore, the research results indicated that there were geographical differences in carbon emissions but there is no spatial spillover effects. In the time fixed effects, the coefficients of CE were positive at the 10% significance level, which pointed out that CE exposure had a long-term impact on LIR from 2013 to 2015. Besides, the Pearson test implied that CE in the period had the greatest impact on the LIR in 2015 in China, and the lag period was about 17 years.Interpretation: The impact of CE on LIR had geographical distribution differences and long-term effects in China. We recommend that adopting policies to reduce carbon emission will have a positive health impact.

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“…Therefore, taking the logarithm of (1) and adding the variable of PPEB, our empirical model of the influence of PPEB on HPG (Model PPEB-HPG) also includes some commonly used control variables so that the model can mitigate the potential for misspecification and biased estimation, as given by: 𝑙𝑛 𝑝 𝑚25 𝑖𝑡 = 𝛼 0 + 𝛼 1 𝑙𝑛 𝑝 𝑚25 where lnpm25 denotes haze pollution; lnrgdp measures income per capita, which is an economic factor; lninsec measures the proportion of fossil energy in total energy consumption, which is an energy factor; lnurbanp measures urbanization; lnpopd measures population density, which is a demographic factor. These five factors are the key variables that influence haze pollution (Qu et al, 2018;Qu & Yan, 2014;Yi et al, 2020). Provinces are denoted by the subscript i (i=1,2……31) and the time period is denoted by the subscript t (t=1,2……18).…”

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The impact of public participation in environmental behavior on haze pollution and public health in China

Zhang

et al. 2021

Economic Modelling

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The impact of energy consumption on environment and public health in China

Cited by 25 publications

References 43 publications

The long-run environmental impacts of economic growth, financial development, and energy consumption: Evidence from emerging markets

The long-run environmental impacts of economic growth, financial development, and energy consumption: Evidence from emerging markets

Study on Long-Term Exposure to Carbon Emissions and Lung Cancer Incidence Rate in China

The impact of public participation in environmental behavior on haze pollution and public health in China

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