The impact of green innovation on energy intensity: An empirical analysis for 14 industrial sectors in OECD countries

Wurlod, Jules; Noailly, Joëlle

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2017.12.012

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“…Technological innovation, especially environmental-related patents can enhance energy efficiency, thus 49 reduce carbon emissions (Voigt et al, 2014;Wurlod and Noailly, 2018). The governments of the BRIICS 50 association encourage the development of environmental patents.…”

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Heterogeneous impacts of renewable energy and environmental patents on CO2 emission - Evidence from the BRIICS

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Ren

Wang

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Science of The Total Environment

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The study explores the impacts of renewable energy, environmental patents, economic growth 14 and other variables on the CO2 emission per capita from 2000 to 2013 for the BRIICS countries. Using 15 both the panel OLS methods and panel quantile regression method, we find that the effects of the 16 determinant variables are heterogeneous across quantiles. Specifically, renewable energy supply reduces 17 CO2 emissions per capita, with the strongest effect at the 95th quantile. Development of environmental 18 patents accelerates carbon emissions per capita, but only significantly affects the CO2 emissions per capita 19 at the upper tail of the conditional distribution. GDP per capita enhances CO2 emissions per capita, with 20 the most substantial effect in the 5th quantile. Exports increase carbon emissions per capita with an 21 asymmetric inverted U-sharped impact. Foreign direct investment reduces carbon emissions per capita, 22 but only significantly influences the carbon emissions per capita at the medium and upper of the 23 conditional distribution. Domestic credit to private sectors raises carbon emissions per capita with 24 gradually decreasing impacts along all quantiles. We propose several policy recommendations based on 25 the results. 26 27

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Section: Introduction 30mentioning

confidence: 99%

Heterogeneous impacts of renewable energy and environmental patents on CO2 emission - Evidence from the BRIICS

Cheng

Ren

Wang

et al. 2019

Science of The Total Environment

317

124

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“…Related studies between energy consumption and polluting emissions support the impact of the structure of energy consumption on air [72][73][74]. GDP growth and fossil fuel energy consumption are mentioned as major sources of CO2 emission [75][76][77]. Related studies between energy consumption and polluting emissions support the impact of the structure of energy consumption on air [72][73][74].…”

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Section: Modeling and Simulationmentioning

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The Trends of the Energy Intensity and CO2 Emissions Related to Final Energy Consumption in Ecuador: Scenarios of National and Worldwide Strategies

Arroyo

Miguel

2019

Sustainability

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Climate change and global warming are related to the demand for energy, energy efficiency, and CO 2 emissions. In this research, in order to project the trends in final energy demand, energy intensity, and CO 2 emission production in Ecuador during a period between 2000 and 2030, a model has been developed based on the dynamics of the systems supported by Vensim simulation models. The energy matrix of Ecuador has changed in recent years, giving more importance to hydropower. It is conclusive that, if industrialized country policies or trends on the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency were applied, the production of CO 2 emissions by 2030 in Ecuador would reach 42,191.4 KTCO 2 , a value well below the 75,182.6 KTCO 2 that would be seen if the current conditions are maintained. In the same way, by 2030, energy intensity would be reduced to 54% compared to the beginning of the simulation period.Between 1750 and 2011, cumulative anthropogenic CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere were 2040 ± 310 GTCO 2 . About 40% of these emissions have remained in the atmosphere (880 ± 35 GTCO 2 ) [5]; the rest have been removed from the atmosphere and stored on land (in plants and soils) and in the ocean. People's life expectancy is threatened by climate change through the limitation of access to water, food, medical care, and land. Therefore, it is important to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and increase the use of renewable energy in order to minimize CO 2 emissions [13].Sustainability of power systems with high renewable energy penetration rates is a topic of major interest, especially when considering the intermittency of renewable energy source (RES) production and the actual growing trend of energy consumption [6]. The transition from fossil fuels to RESs is an indispensable necessity if sustainable socio-economic systems are to be realized. RES variability now represents a major challenge when it comes to upgrading power systems. From a social and economic perspective, the RES share in meeting electricity demand has shown a steady growth [7]. The increasing renewable energy share in electricity generation as a result of several factors such as environmental constraints, technical and economic aspects, or social implications has led to a corresponding reduction in total CO 2 emissions [8].The energy return on investment (EROI) metric includes factors affecting the whole energy system that are not accounted for by the monetary costs of individual power plants (such as additional costs for the system related to distribution, intermittency of RES, etc.) [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. The transition to new energy resources and to new energy conversion and storage devices will affect the fraction of energy reinvestment, which could have significant economic impacts [21][22][23][24][25][26]. Those RESs with a higher potential (i.e., wind, and solar) have been generally found to have a lower EROI standard (EROIst) than fossil fuels, especially when incorporating the energy costs of dealing with intermittency [9].Energy ...

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“…Yet, building these types of indicators for environmental goods and services present important challenges as standard sectoral codes (ISIC, NACE; NAICS) do not lend themselves to a breakdown of commodity of product classification representing environmental technologies except in very specific areas (Sawhney and Kahn 2011). One potential avenue for future work could be to exploit recently developed concordance tables that make a link between patents and sectoral classifications (Lybbert and Zolas 2014;Wurlod and Noailly 2016) as this can prove useful to identify sectors-and thus trade data-that are most likely to embody environmental technical change. Overall, measuring the diffusion of environmental technologies would be greatly facilitated by the availability of detailed sales data, some of which are slowly becoming available.…”

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“…Clean technologies can provide benefits to various segments of society, in terms of reduced carbon emissions, energy-efficiency (Popp 2001;Wurlod and Noailly 2016), improved health, but also possibly lower costs of resource use, higher productivity and economic growth. It is important to quantify and understand further the value of these impacts and future work should aim to enhance our knowledge on these issues.…”

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Innovation, Diffusion, Growth and the Environment: Taking Stock and Charting New Directions

Sarr

Noailly

2017

Environ Resource Econ

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The objective of this article is to provide a succinct review of the main developments in the field of research on the economics of growth, innovation, diffusion and the environment. We focus on the last fifteen to twenty years of scientific advances in the field as this corresponds to: (i) the consensus on the theoretical side on endogenous economic growth modelling, and (ii) the growing empirical work on innovation and diffusion due to the development of patent data. As very good reviews already exist in the literature, we only provide a brief and non-exhaustive discussion aiming at taking stock of some recent developments and charting new issues for a future research agenda.

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The impact of green innovation on energy intensity: An empirical analysis for 14 industrial sectors in OECD countries

Cited by 374 publications

References 48 publications

Heterogeneous impacts of renewable energy and environmental patents on CO2 emission - Evidence from the BRIICS

Heterogeneous impacts of renewable energy and environmental patents on CO2 emission - Evidence from the BRIICS

The Trends of the Energy Intensity and CO2 Emissions Related to Final Energy Consumption in Ecuador: Scenarios of National and Worldwide Strategies

Innovation, Diffusion, Growth and the Environment: Taking Stock and Charting New Directions

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