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Environmental Sciences
William Mbanyele, Fengrong Wang
Summary: The study found that environmental regulations significantly promote technological innovation, especially for state-owned enterprises, pollution-intensive industries, and high-tech-intensive industries. The three underlying economic mechanisms identified include government financing, external governance, and R&D intensity as channels through which environmental regulations drive technological innovation.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Zeeshan Ahmad, Imran Ali Baig, Shah Husain, Zeeshan Anis Khan, Minakshi Rana, Kaifi Azam, Md Abdus Salam
Summary: Despite global commitments to climate change, environmental degradation has increased worldwide. This study examines the relationship between environmental degradation, technological innovation, and electricity consumption in India from 1981 to 2018 using robust econometric methods. The findings suggest that urbanization, financial development, and technological innovation have a positive impact on environmental quality, while economic development and electricity consumption negatively affect it. Policymakers are encouraged to prioritize renewable energy to achieve both environmental protection and economic growth.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Itbar Khan, Lei Han, Robeena BiBi, Hayat Khan
Summary: Innovation and renewable energy consumption have a positive impact on environmental quality, but innovation represented by patent applications from nonresidents increases carbon dioxide emission. Renewable energy consumption and international trade contribute to improved environmental quality, while foreign direct investment and economic growth increase emissions and lead to environmental degradation. The quadratic term of economic growth confirms the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve in the Belt and Road Initiative countries. These findings have significant policy implications for the sample countries in terms of technological innovation and renewable energy consumption for enriching environmental quality.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
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Environmental Studies
Kedong Yin, Yuqing Miao, Chong Huang
Summary: The conflict between rapid economic development, resource mismatch, and ecological damage is intensifying. The upgrading of industrial structure, as a bridge between economic activity and the ecological environment, is crucial for tackling ecological and environmental problems. This study examines the impact of environmental regulation and technological innovation on industrial structure upgrading using 30 provincial panel data points in China from 2000 to 2020. The findings reveal that environmental regulation has a U-shaped impact on industrial upgrading and passes the threshold tests, while technological innovation plays a partially positive mediating role. Regional heterogeneity exists in the effect of environmental regulation on industrial upgrading, with a U-shaped impact in the eastern regions and inhibited industrial upscaling in the central and western areas. Foreign trade hinders industrial development in the eastern region but promotes rapid development and structural adjustment in the central and western areas. Expansion of fixed asset investment impedes industrial restructuring. Government regulation can stimulate industrial structure upgrading in all regions. Policy recommendations are proposed based on China's current situation, including promoting technological innovation and tailoring environmental rules to local conditions.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Development Studies
Fakhri J. Hasanov, Zeeshan Khan, Muzzammil Hussain, Muhammad Tufail
Summary: This study develops a theoretical framework to quantify the impacts of technological progress, renewable energy consumption, and international trade on carbon emissions. The framework is applied to BRICS countries' data, considering panel data integration, co-integration, cross-country interdependence, and heterogeneity. The study reveals that technological progress and renewable energy consumption contribute to reduced CO2 emissions, while GDP and import size increase pollution. Policy recommendations include fostering technological enhancements and transitioning toward sustainable energy.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2021)
Article
Business
Nabila Amin, Muhammad Salman Shabbir, Huaming Song, Muhammad Umar Farrukh, Shahid Iqbal, Kashif Abbass
Summary: South Asian economies have experienced significant development in recent decades, but concerns about long-term output stability remain. The study focuses on the impact of institutional quality, green technology innovation, renewable energy, trade openness, population, and economic growth on CO2 emissions in South Asian countries from 1995 to 2020. Using second-generation panel techniques, the empirical findings show that green technological innovation and renewable energy reduce CO2 emissions, while institutional quality, population growth, trade openness, and economic growth contribute to environmental degradation. The study also identifies a bidirectional causal relationship between green technological innovation, renewable energy consumption, trade openness, population size, economic growth, and CO2 emissions. Policy recommendations include transitioning to a low-carbon economy, increasing investments in renewable energy, improving institutions, and ensuring environmental sustainability.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Mingxia Zhang, Mingyue Du
Summary: This study examines the impact of environmental regulation and technological innovation on green energy efficiency in the manufacturing industry in China. The findings indicate that technological innovation has a positive effect on promoting green energy efficiency, particularly in pollution-intensive industries. Environmental regulation not only directly improves green energy efficiency in polluting and clean industries, but also acts as a positive intermediary between technology and green energy efficiency.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Business
Leilei Zhang, Kashif Raza Abbasi, Khadim Hussain, Mohammed Awad Abuhussain, Ali Aldersoni, Rafael Alvarado
Summary: Pakistan is facing a massive energy crisis that affects its economic and social development. This study examines the factors contributing to Pakistan's sustainable energy plan, including technological innovation, institutional quality, public-private partnerships in energy, and GDP with electricity consumption. The findings suggest that GDP and institutional quality have a positive impact on energy consumption, while technological innovation has a long-term positive influence on electricity consumption. However, public-private partnerships in the energy sector were found to be insignificant. It is important for Pakistan to address issues such as corruption, bureaucratic complexities, underdeveloped grids, and insufficient resource management.
JOURNAL OF INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE
(2023)
Article
Business
Fenglong Chen, Meichang Wang, Zhengning Pu
Summary: This paper analyzes the impact of firm innovation on air pollution in China and finds that innovation can significantly reduce pollution discharges. The study also reveals that the effects of innovation vary across different industrial sectors, locations, and ownership types, and identifies decreasing energy consumption and misallocation of resources as the mechanisms behind this observed pattern.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zixuan Zhang, Huaichao Chen
Summary: China's heavy carbon emission pressure as the largest carbon emitter in the world not only affects its sustainable development, but also the global climate change situation and human survival. This study investigated the dynamic interaction among renewable energy technological innovation, environmental regulation intensity, and carbon pressure in China. The results show a mutual promoting effect between renewable energy technological innovation and environmental regulation intensity, as well as between renewable energy technological innovation and carbon pressure, while a mutual inhibiting effect exists between environmental regulation intensity and carbon pressure.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Oktay Ozkan, Nasir Khan, Maiyra Ahmed
Summary: The contribution of this research is to provide empirical evidence that investing in green technology innovation (GTI) can reduce the ecological footprint in Turkey, which can lead to sustainable economic growth and environmental quality. The research also highlights the importance of controlling energy consumption, GDP, trade openness, and urbanization, as these variables have a positive or negative effect on ecological footprint. The findings of this research can be useful for the Turkish government, policymakers, and environmentalists to promote the implementation of GTI and eco-friendly resources, which can reduce the impact of climate change and contribute to economic prosperity.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cankun Ma, Md. Qamruzzaman
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between urbanization, technological innovation, renewable energy consumption, and environmental quality in Egypt and Ethiopia. The findings suggest that clean energy integration and technological innovations can reduce carbon emissions and ecological blames, thus decreasing environmental adversity. Additionally, urbanization has a positive impact on environmental sustainability. The study also reveals relationships between technological innovation and environmental sustainability, as well as ecological footprint and urbanization in these countries. There is a unidirectional causality from ecological footprint to renewable energy consumption.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tomiwa Sunday Adebayo, Dervis Kirikkaleli
Summary: The study found that globalization, GDP growth, and technological innovation increase CO2 emissions in Japan, while renewable energy usage helps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the short to medium term. Therefore, policymakers should effectively coordinate policies to curb environmental degradation in Japan.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Fang Du
Summary: This research explores the impact of green financial development, technological innovation, and environmental regulation on China's pursuit of sustainable development. Based on panel data from 30 provinces in mainland China from 1995 to 2020, the study confirms the relationship between environmental issues, economic stability, and technological innovation. The results demonstrate the significance of green financial development and green technological innovation in achieving China's sustainable development goals. The empirical findings provide important insights for policy formulation, promoting the sustainable growth of China's economy through green financing, green technological innovation, and environmental regulation.
Article
Environmental Studies
Wen-Xuan Zhao, Ahmed Samour, Kefu Yi, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan
Summary: Renewable energy has a significant impact on the load capacity factor (LCF) in BRICS-T nations, while natural resources and stock market development have a negative effect on environmental quality. The study shows that renewable energy consumption improves environmental quality, but the extraction of natural resources and the development of the stock market lead to a decrease in environmental quality.
