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Environmental Sciences
Hui Shan Lee, Philip Arestis, Shyue Chuan Chong, Shen Yap, Bik Kai Sia
Summary: This study reveals that the rise of urbanisation in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries is disrupting the ecosystem, impacting global sustainability. The impact of urbanisation and institutional quality on greenhouse gas emissions in the selected BRI countries from 1984 to 2017 is explored using panel regression and quantile regression models. The findings suggest that addressing GHG emissions in countries with varying levels of emissions requires tailored strategies, and policymakers should focus on eradicating unplanned urbanisation and improving institutional quality to meet pollution mitigation goals.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Economics
Yan Wu, Chunlai Chen, Cong Hu
Summary: The Belt and Road Initiative has been found to have a significant impact on reducing carbon emission intensity in participating countries, especially those with high and low emission levels. The initiative has the most pronounced effect in energy-intensive industries.
CHINA & WORLD ECONOMY
(2021)
Article
Business
Yan Wu, Chunlai Chen
Summary: This study shows that China's outward foreign direct investment has a mixed impact on trade intensity with BRI countries, with a positive effect on import intensity and a negative effect on export intensity. The research also reveals that since the launch of the BRI initiative in 2013, China's OFDI has strengthened the bidirectional trade relations between China and BRI countries.
EMERGING MARKETS FINANCE AND TRADE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Isaac Ahakwa, Evelyn Agba Tackie, Francis Atta Sarpong, Benard Korankye, Elvis Kwame Ofori, Leslie Afotey Odai, Mohammed Musah
Summary: The nations participating in the Belt and Road Initiative face significant challenges from climate change due to their extensive trading activities. This study examines the relationship between trade openness and environmental sustainability in these countries and finds that trade openness improves environmental sustainability, while economic growth, energy consumption, urbanization, and industrialization have negative effects. Reciprocal causalities are observed between trade openness and carbon emissions, energy consumption and carbon emissions, and urbanization and carbon emissions.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Didier-Robert Dusengemungu, Jinhao Liu, Zhifang Zhou
Summary: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has a positive impact on reducing carbon emissions intensity in African participating countries. This study analyzes data from 54 African countries between 2010 and 2019 and finds that the participation in BRI leads to a decrease in carbon emissions intensity. Furthermore, it suggests that low carbon development in BRI countries is particularly significant in those countries that have joined the initiative.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Economics
Qiaoling Shi, Yuli Shan, Chao Zhong, Ye Cao, Rui Xue
Summary: Participating in global value chains has a positive impact on carbon intensity in Belt and Road Initiative countries, especially the technological innovation and industrial upgrading effects of forward mode.
Article
Business
Shiwei Yu, Jie Liu, Xing Hu, Peng Tian
Summary: The study found that increasing renewable energy development has a significant impact on reducing energy intensity, while economic development and non-renewable energy consumption structure have different effects on energy intensity. In order to improve the technical content of international trade products, all countries should increase renewable energy consumption.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mufutau Opeyemi Bello, Sinan Erdogan, Kean Siang Ch'Ng
Summary: This paper examines the stochastic convergence of ecological footprint in 49 African countries from 1973 to 2018. The empirical results show that the majority of African countries exhibit a convergent pattern in their ecological footprint, validating the presence of stochastic convergence.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Celil Aydin, Omer Esen, Recai Aydin
Summary: The study empirically analyzes the non-linear effect of economic activities on ecological balance indicators, revealing that economic activities can impact ecological balance beyond a certain threshold, leading to waste accumulation and pollution that nature can no longer absorb. Therefore, environmental policies are needed to improve the environment, contrary to the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Development Studies
Celil Aydin, Hatice Aydin, Hayrullah Altinok
Summary: This study examines the relationship between logistic performance and environmental pollution in 45 countries supporting the One Belt One Road (OBOR) project, using energy intensity as the threshold. The results show that the relationship is not linear, and energy intensity plays an important role. When energy intensity is below the threshold, an increase in logistic performance reduces environmental pollution, but when it is above the threshold, an increase in logistic performance increases environmental pollution. Therefore, reducing energy intensity is helpful for improving logistic performance and reducing environmental pollution in the long term.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Business
Durmus Cagri Yildirim, Omer Esen, Seda Yildirim
Summary: This paper empirically investigates the impact of environmental innovation on energy sector-based CO2 emissions. The findings suggest a nonlinear relationship, where environmental innovation initially reduces CO2 emissions up to a certain level, then leads to a rebound effect. Therefore, environmental innovation alone is not sufficient to address environmental problems and should be supported by environmental policies.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Thermodynamics
Mufutau Opeyemi Bello, Kean Siang Ch'ng
Summary: This study investigates the convergence of energy intensity of GDP among the 15-member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The results show that the energy intensity of GDP converges for the majority of West African countries. Therefore, regionally coordinated energy policies will improve energy efficiency and promote sustainable energy consumption.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Muhammad Salman, Guimei Wang, Donglan Zha
Summary: China's Belt and Road Initiative is a massive infrastructure project that has raised concerns about its potential ecological footprint and impact on sustainable development. This study developed a sustainable total factor productivity index that incorporated ecological footprint and human development index to comprehensively measure sustainable growth across 62 Belt and Road countries. The results showed that a majority of these countries placed less emphasis on sustainable growth, but there were still some positive cases of sustainable productivity growth and achievement of sustainable growth.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Rhisa Azaliah, Hengky Kurniawan, Djoni Hartono, Putu Angga Widyastaman
Summary: This study analyzes the energy intensity convergence in Indonesia based on panel data from 33 provinces between 2010 and 2018. The findings suggest the existence of both absolute and conditional beta convergences, but no evidence of sigma convergence. Furthermore, variables such as provincial income, the role of manufacturing industries, the role of international trade, FDI, and population density may encourage energy intensity convergence. Policy recommendations include the use of more efficient industrial technology, attracting foreign investment to non-industrial sectors, and developing exports from sectors that use less energy.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Muhammad Salam, Yingzhi Xu
Summary: Since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, China has been working with the BRI countries to implement environmental measures for a green and clean project. This study examines whether importing environmental technology from China can reduce carbon emissions in the BRI countries and whether they should follow China's environmental and import policies or the EU-6 countries. The results suggest that only the BRI countries with higher carbon emissions intensity can significantly reduce their emissions by importing technology from China.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hongbo Duan, Zhilin Huang, Jie Jiang, Xi Ming, Dingxuan Zhang, Shouyang Wang
Summary: The COVID-19 outbreak has had a significant negative impact on happiness of Chinese residents, especially in regions with high risk levels and different income levels. Female sentiment is more sensitive to the epidemic than male sentiment. The timing of major public events and alerts announced by the World Health Organization play a critical role in determining self-reported happiness.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jianlei Mo, Weirong Zhang, Qiang Tu, Jiahai Yuan, Hongbo Duan, Ying Fan, Jiaofeng Pan, Jian Zhang, Zhixu Meng
Summary: As the country with the world's largest coal power capacity, China is implementing a national carbon market to reduce carbon emissions. Research shows that while China's coal plants have a long lifespan, the implementation of carbon pricing will reduce their remaining lifespan and decrease CO2 emissions.
Article
Economics
Jiali Zheng, Hongbo Duan, Sheng Zhou, Shouyang Wang, Ji Gao, Kejun Jiang, Shuo Gao
Summary: The study highlights the significance of reducing the temperature-increase limit to below 1.5 degrees C and the challenges China faces in combating global warming. By utilizing multi-model analysis, the study provides insights on the impact of stricter warming-limit goals on emissions reduction, energy consumption, policy costs, and technology progress. The findings suggest that greater technological progress can result in larger contributions to CO2 emission reductions when shifting from 2 degrees C to 1.5 degrees C.
Article
Economics
Jianlei Mo, Lianbiao Cui, Hongbo Duan
Summary: This study quantifies the risk of newly-built coal plants becoming stranded assets under carbon pricing, focusing on the case of China as a heavily coal-dependent nation introducing a national carbon market. Results show that carbon pricing increases the risk of coal plants becoming stranded assets and shortens their lifespan.
Article
Economics
Hongbo Duan, Qin Bao, Kailan Tian, Shouyang Wang, Cuihong Yang, Zongwu Cai
Summary: The study evaluates the economic impact of COVID-19 outbreak on China, revealing a potential decrease in economic growth rate for 2020 due to the epidemic, especially impacting the service industry. By 2021, the industry is estimated to be the most affected sector.
CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Duan Hongbo, Tang Xu, Ren Kaipeng, Ding Yu
Summary: This study examined the medium- and long-term development trend of natural gas consumption in China through multiple models, showing fluctuations and changes in natural gas consumption from 2020 to 2060 under different climate policy scenarios.
NATURAL GAS INDUSTRY B
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kailan Tian, Yu Zhang, Yuze Li, Xi Ming, Shangrong Jiang, Hongbo Duan, Cuihong Yang, Shouyang Wang
Summary: Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are widely used to promote international trade, but their environmental effects have not been well studied. This study evaluates the economic effects of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and estimates that it will lead to increased CO2 emissions. However, deeper trade liberalization can help mitigate the burdens.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhi-Da Jin, Hong-Bo Duan, Jin-Chao Wang, Mian Yang, Yu-Huan Guo, Xiao-Dong Cui
Summary: The deepening of global value chains has had remarkable impacts on the environmental outcomes of all countries/regions. Developed countries/regions that participate more in global value chains experience significant reductions in their CO2 intensity, while developing countries/regions that have higher participation in global value chains see significant increases in their CO2 intensity.
ADVANCES IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Zhilin Huang, Xi Ming, Hongbo Duan
Summary: This study investigates the heterogeneous effects on the convergence of energy poverty across the 28 countries in the European Union from 2006 to 2018. The empirical results support the existence of both unconditional and conditional 8-convergence of energy poverty, and the significance and rate of convergence are heterogeneous with the quantiles.
ENERGY STRATEGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Economics
Hongbo Duan, Deyu Yuan, Zongwu Cai, Shouyang Wang
Summary: This study systematically evaluates the economic impact of climate change in the mid-latitude regions of China using a 27-year panel dataset. The results show significant climate-economic relationships, with temperature, rainfall, and humidity changes affecting output. Higher temperatures are associated with decreased output, while increased rainfall has a positive impact. Using integrated assessment models, it is projected that climate change could lead to a 4.23% reduction in China's GDP by 2100.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Hongbo Duan, Jiahua Pan, Tsvetan G. Tsvetanov, Bing Zhang
Summary: Asia, particularly China, has experienced rapid economic growth and will be a significant source of future greenhouse gas emissions. Despite declines in emissions from industrialized countries, substantial mitigation actions are needed in Asia to meet the Paris targets. This study provides insights and fresh perspectives on policy making and climate governance in Asian economies, contributing to the existing literature on climate economic methodologies and regional climate policy research.
CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jiali Zheng, Hongbo Duan, Yongna Yuan
Summary: This study examines the significance of enhancing warm-limiting targets for climate change mitigation, particularly in relation to China's carbon capture and storage (CCS) efforts. Using a multi-model analysis, the study explores how China can contribute to the global 1.5? target while achieving its carbon neutrality goal. The findings indicate that these enhanced targets will accelerate China's carbon peak and neutrality, with a significant decrease in carbon emissions by the end of the century. It is estimated that China's negative carbon emissions will contribute nearly one-fifth of global negative emissions in 2100, with CCS-captured emissions accounting for 14%.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL
(2022)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nicolas Fatras, Zheng Ma, Hongbo Duan, Bo Norregaard Jorgensen
Summary: The alignment between electricity market liberalisation and consumer participation is crucial for improving market efficiency, increasing system flexibility, and supporting the transition to a low-carbon electricity system. This paper examines the alignment status between market liberalisation properties and industrial consumer participation criteria in the Nordic region and China, and finds that the Nordic electricity market provides better participation incentives for cost savings, while the Chinese market offers easier adoption and better long-term financial overviews for consumers. Market context strongly influences the preferred market type for consumer participation, and market intervention is essential to ensure consumer-side market participation.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Yan Nie, Guoxing Zhang, Hongbo Duan, Bin Su, Yichen Feng, Kaixiang Zhang, Xiulin Gao
Summary: The transition to a low-carbon energy system is crucial for achieving global carbon neutrality, and requires coordination and cooperation among different energy-focused agents. Policy coordination plays a vital role in integrating energy policy goals and driving the development of energy system agents. Future research should focus on dual carbon targets, energy supply security, and utilize quantitative analysis and machine learning methods.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Business, Finance
Lianbiao Cui, Hongbo Duan, Jianlei Mo, Malin Song
Summary: The Chinese government's proposal for an ecological compensation mechanism to address air pollution faces challenges due to lack of specific technical guidance. Lessons from pilot projects show significant provincial heterogeneity in compensation factors. Current municipal EC programs in China still have room for improvement.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lars odegaard Bentsen, Narada Dilp Warakagoda, Roy Stenbro, Paal Engelstad
Summary: This study investigates uncertainty modeling in wind power forecasting using different parametric and non-parametric methods. Johnson's SU distribution is found to outperform Gaussian distributions in predicting wind power. This research contributes to the literature by introducing Johnson's SU distribution as a candidate for probabilistic wind forecasting.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xing Liu, Qiuchen Wang, Yunhao Wen, Long Li, Xinfang Zhang, Yi Wang
Summary: This study analyzes the characteristics of process parameters in three lean gas ethane recovery processes and establishes a prediction and multiobjective optimization model for ethane recovery and system energy consumption. A new method for comparing ethane recovery processes for lean gas is proposed, and the addition of extra coolers improves the ethane recovery. The support vector regression model based on grey wolf optimization demonstrates the highest prediction accuracy, and the multiobjective multiverse optimization algorithm shows the best optimization performance and diversity in the solutions.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cairong Song, Haidong Yang, Xian-Bing Meng, Pan Yang, Jianyang Cai, Hao Bao, Kangkang Xu
Summary: The paper proposes a novel deep learning-based prediction framework, aTCN-LSTM, for accurate cooling load predictions. The framework utilizes a gate-controlled multi-head temporal convolutional network and a sparse probabilistic self-attention mechanism with a bidirectional long short-term memory network to capture both temporal and long-term dependencies in the cooling load sequences. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method, which can serve as an effective guide for HVAC chiller scheduling and demand management initiatives.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zhe Chen, Xiaojing Li, Xianli Xia, Jizhou Zhang
Summary: This study uses survey data from the Loess Plateau in China to evaluate the impact of social interaction on the adoption of soil and water conservation (SWC) technology by farmers. The study finds that social interaction increases the likelihood of farmers adopting SWC, and internet use moderates this effect. The positive impact of social interaction on SWC adoption is more pronounced for farmers in larger villages and those who join cooperative societies.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chenghua Zhang, Yunfei Yan, Kaiming Shen, Zongguo Xue, Jingxiang You, Yonghong Wu, Ziqiang He
Summary: This paper reports a novel method that significantly improves combustion performance, including heat transfer enhancement under steady-state conditions and adaptive stable flame regulation under velocity sudden increase.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2024)
