Does public participation promote environmental efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment of environmental information disclosure in China

H Zhang, T Xu, C Feng - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous literature on improving environmental efficiency largely focuses on the power of the
government, ignoring the role of public participation represented by environmental non …

Can carbon emission trading scheme achieve energy conservation and emission reduction? Evidence from the industrial sector in China

Y Hu, S Ren, Y Wang, X Chen - Energy Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Whether the emission trading scheme (ETS) can achieve energy conservation and emission
reduction in developing countries is crucial for these countries to achieve sustainable …

China's efforts towards carbon neutrality: does energy-saving and emission-reduction policy mitigate carbon emissions?

T Xu, C Kang, H Zhang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
To achieve green and low-carbon development, the Chinese government has selected pilot
cities to implement the energy-saving and emission-reduction (ESER) policy in three …

Low-carbon city construction and corporate carbon reduction performance: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

S Chen, H Mao, J Sun - Journal of Business Ethics, 2022 - Springer
Enterprises are the market players for carbon reductions and carbon trading, and they are
also the significant driving force in a low-carbon economy and society. Using the data of A …

Does carbon emission trading scheme really improve the CO2 emission efficiency? Evidence from China's iron and steel industry

R Wu, Z Tan, B Lin - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The carbon trading market is an effective way to mitigate the threat of climate warming. In the
context of carbon neutrality, what is the carbon emission trading scheme's carbon reduction …

The pollution control effect of the atmospheric environmental policy in autumn and winter: Evidence from the daily data of Chinese cities

Z Zhang, Y Shang, G Zhang, S Shao, J Fang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The pollution control effect of seasonal environmental regulation policies in developing
countries still lacks empirical evidence. In 2017, China implemented its first Atmospheric …

Understanding China's largest sustainability experiment: Atmospheric and climate governance in the Yangtze river economic belt as a lens

M Peng, H Xu, C Qu, J Xu, L Chen, L Duan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
China's coal consumption has made up more than 70% of China's energy assumption since
1978, and it accounts for approximately 21% of global carbon emissions in 2017. How …

Evaluating public participation impact on environmental protection and ecological efficiency in China: Evidence from PITI disclosure

Z Tu, T Hu, R Shen - China Economic Review, 2019 - Elsevier
The industrial pollution caused by China's unprecedent economic expansion seriously
imperils public health, giving rise to public's high demand for better environmental quality …

[HTML][HTML] An in-depth analysis of the evolution of the policy mix for the sustainable energy transition in China from 1981 to 2020

L Li, A Taeihagh - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Global warming and the acute domestic air pollution in China have necessitated transition to
a sustainable energy system away from coal-dominated energy production. Through a …

Exploring the causal relationship between PM 2.5 air pollution and urban areas economic welfare and social‐wellbeing: Evidence form 15 European capitals

JV Andrei, DS Cristea, FM Nuţă… - Sustainable …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper aims to investigate the relationship between air pollution (PM2. 5) and a
collection of features related to urban areas economic welfare and social‐wellbeing based …