Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/su9040548
Keywords
low carbon technologies; clean innovation; gray innovation; patent statistics; CO2 emissions
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71603148]
- Shaanxi Provincial Social Science Foundation, China [2016D036]
- Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China [ZR2016GB10]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2016M590627]
- Fundamental Research Funds of Shandong University
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This paper aims to investigate the impact of low-carbon innovation on CO2 emissions. Using patent statistics, we measured low-carbon innovations for 15 major economies during the period of 1992-2012. Then, we classified low-carbon technology into clean and gray technology according to the patent classification system. Following the empirical Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework, we explored the effects of low-carbon innovation and its components on CO2 emissions. We did not find any evidence of significant influence of low-carbon innovation. Through further estimations, a significantly negative effect of clean innovation was found while the effect of gray innovation is not clear. Heterogeneous impacts within low-carbon technology provide an explanation for the insignificant impact of low-carbon innovation.
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