As the extraction and usage of natural resources continue to be a double-edged sword-supporting economic growth but deteriorating the environment-we study the impact of natural resource mining on sustainable economic ...As the extraction and usage of natural resources continue to be a double-edged sword-supporting economic growth but deteriorating the environment-we study the impact of natural resource mining on sustainable economic development in the largest(PPP)economy-China.We use province-level data from 2001 to 2020 and employ econometric panel techniques,such as fixed effects,two-stage least squares,and a battery of robustness tests.We further explore the potential effects of education and green innovation in mitigating/exacerbating the role of natural resources in the Chinese provincial economy.The results show that:(1)Natural resource mining hurts sustainable development,verifying the“resource curse”effect.(2)Green innovation and education restrain the negative impact of resource mining on sustainable development,turning the curse into a blessing.(3)A regional heterogeneity is observed in the impact of resource mining on sustainable development,showing more significant effects in the Western and low-urbanized regions.(4)Green innovation and education can assuage the curse effect of natural resources into gospel effect.Policy implications and recommendations are proposed in light of the findings to promote sustainable economic development in China.展开更多
Reducing environmental pollution is a critical goal in global environmental economics and economic development.The European Union(EU)faces environmental challenges due to its development activities.Here we present a c...Reducing environmental pollution is a critical goal in global environmental economics and economic development.The European Union(EU)faces environmental challenges due to its development activities.Here we present a comprehensive approach to assess the impact of carbon dioxide(CO_(2))emissions,energy consumption(EC),population structure(POP),economy(GDP),and policies on the environment within the EU using the environmental Kuznets curve(EKC).Our research reveals that between 1990 and 2019,the EU-27 experienced an increase of t1.18 million tonnes of oil equivalent(Mtoe)per year in energy consumption(p<0.05),while CO_(2)emissions decreased by 24.25 million tonnes(Mt)per year(p<0.05).The highest reduction in CO_(2)emissions occurred in Germany(7.52 Mt CO_(2)annually),and the lowest in Latvia(0.087 Mt CO_(2)annually).The empirical EKC analysis shows an inverted-U shaped relationship between GDP and CO_(2)emissions in the EU-27.Specifically,a 1%increase in GDP results in a 0.705%increase in carbon emission,while a 1%increase in GDP2 leads to a 0.062%reduction in environmental pollution in the long run(p<0.01).These findings indicate that economic development within the EU has reached a stage where economic growth positively impacts the environment.Overall,this study provides insights into the effectiveness of environmental policies in mitigating degradation and promoting green growth in the EU 27 countries.展开更多
Copper is one of the most important minerals that has extensive use in environment-friendly technologies and renewable energy generation.The global urgency for environmental and ecological conservation through renewab...Copper is one of the most important minerals that has extensive use in environment-friendly technologies and renewable energy generation.The global urgency for environmental and ecological conservation through renewable energy transition has considerably enhanced the importance of copper and articles thereof.Chile is a major producer of copper.It contributes more than one-third to global supply.Therefore,this study explores the export flow of Chilean copper in response to increasing demand side conditions in major 24 trading partners from 2002 to 2020.This objective is realized by constructing an augmented model for import demand that incorporates bilateral real exchange rate along with real GDP,environmental innovation,and renewable energy transition in major import markets.The estimated results of panel quantiles via moments techniques reveal a significant positive impact with increasing coefficients at higher quantiles,while environmental innovation and renewable energy transition in trading partners show significant positive impact with decreasing values of coefficients at higher quantiles.The findings urge Chile to enhance production capacity of copper and other critical mineral and improve participation in global value chain to meet sharply increasing copper demand from environmental innovation and renewable energy transition.展开更多
Economic growth has brought a global climate change into the spotlight,and CO_(2)emissions demonstrate significant challenges in reducing environmental shifts worldwide.Globally,the United States and China contribute ...Economic growth has brought a global climate change into the spotlight,and CO_(2)emissions demonstrate significant challenges in reducing environmental shifts worldwide.Globally,the United States and China contribute the largest amount of CO_(2)emissions.The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between different types of CO_(2)emissions and economic growth by using a modeling approach.We analyze total CO_(2)emissions,coal CO_(2)emissions,oil CO_(2)emissions,the global share of coal CO_(2)emissions,the global share of oil CO_(2)emissions,and economic growth.This study provides unique insights into how to simultaneously reduce CO_(2)emissions and sustain economic growth.A bootstrap autoregressive distributed lag(BARDL)simulation method is utilized to examine the long-and short-run effects of predictors on CO_(2)emissions.Coal CO_(2)emissions are found to have a significant positive effect on economic growth in the short run but a negative impact on economic growth over the long run in the United States.The United States needs to implement stronger measures to balance coal CO_(2)emissions with economic growth for sustainable development.In contrast,oil CO_(2)emissions have positive effect for China in both the long run and short run.Thus,China can continue to reduce CO_(2)emissions from oil while maintaining positive economic growth.The China’s policies promoting cleaner energy alternatives can be adapted and implemented to maintain a balance between economic growth and carbon reduction.The study has valuable insights for policymakers seeking to balance economic growth with carbon reduction strategies.It emphasizes the need to better understand the complex relationship between CO_(2)emissions and economic growth.展开更多
The worldwide tremor of environmental degradation commonly represents the escalation of emissions levels and ecological footprints that harm the planet’s biocapacity.This is because of using gigantic non-renewable en...The worldwide tremor of environmental degradation commonly represents the escalation of emissions levels and ecological footprints that harm the planet’s biocapacity.This is because of using gigantic non-renewable energy resources,urbanization stream and massive economic activities in the major industrialized nations.Amid this situation,we investigate the influence of disaggregated energy measures,e.g.,renewable,and nuclear energy,income growth and urbanization on the load capacity factor(biocapacity divided by the ecological footprint)of major nuclear power countries,such as France,the USA,Canada,China,and Russia during 1990-2021.To this end,we utilize the CS-ARDL procedure because of the endogeneity,common correlation,non-stationarity in data and heterogeneity in panel units.We contribute to considering the supply side dynamic of environmental degradation parameter,the load capacity,from the perspective of the top nuclear power nations that deviates our analysis from the prevailing scholarly works.However,our findings confirm a significantly positive impact of renewable and nuclear energy on the load capacity factor in improving environmental safety.Besides,economic growth and urbanization negatively affect the load capacity dynamics in spurring environmental degradation.Our findings are robust across an alternative estimation technique,namely the Dumitrescu and Hurlin(DH)causation analysis.Therefore,we recommend formulating pragmatic policies to deter the detrimental effects of income and urbanization by properly utilizing sustainable energy resources to conserve the natural environment.展开更多
基金support from the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project of the Ministry of Education(No.22YJCZH121)Undergraduate Teaching Quality and Teaching Reform Project of Anhui University of Finance and Economics(acjyzd2022035).
文摘As the extraction and usage of natural resources continue to be a double-edged sword-supporting economic growth but deteriorating the environment-we study the impact of natural resource mining on sustainable economic development in the largest(PPP)economy-China.We use province-level data from 2001 to 2020 and employ econometric panel techniques,such as fixed effects,two-stage least squares,and a battery of robustness tests.We further explore the potential effects of education and green innovation in mitigating/exacerbating the role of natural resources in the Chinese provincial economy.The results show that:(1)Natural resource mining hurts sustainable development,verifying the“resource curse”effect.(2)Green innovation and education restrain the negative impact of resource mining on sustainable development,turning the curse into a blessing.(3)A regional heterogeneity is observed in the impact of resource mining on sustainable development,showing more significant effects in the Western and low-urbanized regions.(4)Green innovation and education can assuage the curse effect of natural resources into gospel effect.Policy implications and recommendations are proposed in light of the findings to promote sustainable economic development in China.
文摘Reducing environmental pollution is a critical goal in global environmental economics and economic development.The European Union(EU)faces environmental challenges due to its development activities.Here we present a comprehensive approach to assess the impact of carbon dioxide(CO_(2))emissions,energy consumption(EC),population structure(POP),economy(GDP),and policies on the environment within the EU using the environmental Kuznets curve(EKC).Our research reveals that between 1990 and 2019,the EU-27 experienced an increase of t1.18 million tonnes of oil equivalent(Mtoe)per year in energy consumption(p<0.05),while CO_(2)emissions decreased by 24.25 million tonnes(Mt)per year(p<0.05).The highest reduction in CO_(2)emissions occurred in Germany(7.52 Mt CO_(2)annually),and the lowest in Latvia(0.087 Mt CO_(2)annually).The empirical EKC analysis shows an inverted-U shaped relationship between GDP and CO_(2)emissions in the EU-27.Specifically,a 1%increase in GDP results in a 0.705%increase in carbon emission,while a 1%increase in GDP2 leads to a 0.062%reduction in environmental pollution in the long run(p<0.01).These findings indicate that economic development within the EU has reached a stage where economic growth positively impacts the environment.Overall,this study provides insights into the effectiveness of environmental policies in mitigating degradation and promoting green growth in the EU 27 countries.
基金support from the German Federal Government,the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the State of Brandenburg within the framework of the joint project EIZ:Energy Innovation Center(project numbers 85056897 and 03SF0693A)the Structural Devel-opment Act(Strukturstärkungsgesetz)for coal-mining regions.
文摘Copper is one of the most important minerals that has extensive use in environment-friendly technologies and renewable energy generation.The global urgency for environmental and ecological conservation through renewable energy transition has considerably enhanced the importance of copper and articles thereof.Chile is a major producer of copper.It contributes more than one-third to global supply.Therefore,this study explores the export flow of Chilean copper in response to increasing demand side conditions in major 24 trading partners from 2002 to 2020.This objective is realized by constructing an augmented model for import demand that incorporates bilateral real exchange rate along with real GDP,environmental innovation,and renewable energy transition in major import markets.The estimated results of panel quantiles via moments techniques reveal a significant positive impact with increasing coefficients at higher quantiles,while environmental innovation and renewable energy transition in trading partners show significant positive impact with decreasing values of coefficients at higher quantiles.The findings urge Chile to enhance production capacity of copper and other critical mineral and improve participation in global value chain to meet sharply increasing copper demand from environmental innovation and renewable energy transition.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42350410448).
文摘Economic growth has brought a global climate change into the spotlight,and CO_(2)emissions demonstrate significant challenges in reducing environmental shifts worldwide.Globally,the United States and China contribute the largest amount of CO_(2)emissions.The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between different types of CO_(2)emissions and economic growth by using a modeling approach.We analyze total CO_(2)emissions,coal CO_(2)emissions,oil CO_(2)emissions,the global share of coal CO_(2)emissions,the global share of oil CO_(2)emissions,and economic growth.This study provides unique insights into how to simultaneously reduce CO_(2)emissions and sustain economic growth.A bootstrap autoregressive distributed lag(BARDL)simulation method is utilized to examine the long-and short-run effects of predictors on CO_(2)emissions.Coal CO_(2)emissions are found to have a significant positive effect on economic growth in the short run but a negative impact on economic growth over the long run in the United States.The United States needs to implement stronger measures to balance coal CO_(2)emissions with economic growth for sustainable development.In contrast,oil CO_(2)emissions have positive effect for China in both the long run and short run.Thus,China can continue to reduce CO_(2)emissions from oil while maintaining positive economic growth.The China’s policies promoting cleaner energy alternatives can be adapted and implemented to maintain a balance between economic growth and carbon reduction.The study has valuable insights for policymakers seeking to balance economic growth with carbon reduction strategies.It emphasizes the need to better understand the complex relationship between CO_(2)emissions and economic growth.
文摘The worldwide tremor of environmental degradation commonly represents the escalation of emissions levels and ecological footprints that harm the planet’s biocapacity.This is because of using gigantic non-renewable energy resources,urbanization stream and massive economic activities in the major industrialized nations.Amid this situation,we investigate the influence of disaggregated energy measures,e.g.,renewable,and nuclear energy,income growth and urbanization on the load capacity factor(biocapacity divided by the ecological footprint)of major nuclear power countries,such as France,the USA,Canada,China,and Russia during 1990-2021.To this end,we utilize the CS-ARDL procedure because of the endogeneity,common correlation,non-stationarity in data and heterogeneity in panel units.We contribute to considering the supply side dynamic of environmental degradation parameter,the load capacity,from the perspective of the top nuclear power nations that deviates our analysis from the prevailing scholarly works.However,our findings confirm a significantly positive impact of renewable and nuclear energy on the load capacity factor in improving environmental safety.Besides,economic growth and urbanization negatively affect the load capacity dynamics in spurring environmental degradation.Our findings are robust across an alternative estimation technique,namely the Dumitrescu and Hurlin(DH)causation analysis.Therefore,we recommend formulating pragmatic policies to deter the detrimental effects of income and urbanization by properly utilizing sustainable energy resources to conserve the natural environment.
