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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Livia Cabernard, Stephan Pfister, Christopher Oberschelp, Stefanie Hellweg
Summary: Despite concerns about plastics in the environment, not enough attention is paid to the impacts of the various stages of the plastics value chain globally. The environmental and socioeconomic impacts from plastics are mainly due to their growing production in coal-based economies.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Oliver E. J. Wing, William Lehman, Paul D. Bates, Christopher C. Sampson, Niall Quinn, Andrew M. Smith, Jeffrey C. Neal, Jeremy R. Porter, Carolyn Kousky
Summary: Current flood risk mapping fails to account for increasing threat under climate change. Incorporating new inundation modelling, this study shows a significant increase in US flood risk by 2050 due to climate change alone. The findings highlight the disproportionate burden faced by less advantaged communities and emphasize the need for adaptation and mitigation measures to address these risks.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xiaoxin Zhang, Martin Brandt, Xiaowei Tong, Philippe Ciais, Yuemin Yue, Xiangming Xiao, Wenmin Zhang, Kelin Wang, Rasmus Fensholt
Summary: This study tests the hypothesis that urbanization and carbon neutrality are not mutually exclusive, and that sustainably managed urbanization could increase carbon sequestration. The results show that urban greening compensates for initial carbon losses caused by urban expansion, and rural areas experiencing depopulation coincide with extensive aboveground carbon sinks. However, the capacity for carbon removal by forests is limited, and reducing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning is necessary to achieve carbon neutrality.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
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Environmental Studies
Fulong Wu
Summary: There is a growing body of literature on China's land reform, land system, and land-centered urbanization. This paper focuses on the financialization of land in China, specifically the use of financial instruments for land development. The study examines the land mortgage, local government financial vehicles (LGFVs), and Chengtou Bonds as examples of this financialization process. It highlights the role of fiscal stimulus in triggering land financialization as a crisis management strategy in China.
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Environmental Sciences
Chris A. Boulton, Timothy M. Lenton, Niklas Boers
Summary: The resilience of the Amazon rainforest to climate and land-use change is crucial for biodiversity, regional climate, and the global carbon cycle. However, deforestation and climate change have led to a decrease in resilience of more than three-quarters of the rainforest since the early 2000s, indicating a potential tipping point.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chenhui Ding, Chao Liu, Chuiyong Zheng, Feng Li
Summary: The digital economy has a significant impact on China's high-quality economic development, although the overall level of digital economy and high-quality development is not high and shows spatial disparities. Furthermore, technological innovation plays a crucial role in the relationship between the digital economy and high-quality economic development.
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Environmental Sciences
Piyush Jain, Dante Castellanos-Acuna, Sean C. P. Coogan, John T. Abatzoglou, Mike D. Flannigan
Summary: Recent increases in regional wildfire activity have been linked to climate change, driven predominantly by decreasing relative humidity and increasing temperature. Future fire risk may increase as climate change projections suggest global decreases in relative humidity and increases in temperature.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Ritika Chopra, Cosimo Magazzino, Muhammad Ibrahim Shah, Gagan Deep Sharma, Amar Rao, Umer Shahzad
Summary: This paper examines the impact of carbon emissions, deforestation, renewable energy consumption, natural resources, and regional integration on agricultural productivity in the ASEAN countries. The study finds that environmental degradation and deforestation reduce agricultural productivity in the region, while the use of renewable energy sources positively contributes to the agricultural sector. Regional integration among ASEAN members does not boost agricultural productivity. The study provides policy recommendations for ASEAN economies to improve the environmental performance of agriculture and achieve the SDGs by 2030.
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Environmental Sciences
Felix Creutzig, Leila Niamir, Xuemei Bai, Max Callaghan, Jonathan Cullen, Julio Diaz-Jose, Maria Figueroa, Arnulf Grubler, William F. Lamb, Adrian Leip, Eric Masanet, Erika Mata, Linus Mattauch, Jan C. Minx, Sebastian Mirasgedis, Yacob Mulugetta, Sudarmanto Budi Nugroho, Minal Pathak, Patricia Perkins, Joyashree Roy, Stephane de la Rue du Can, Yamina Saheb, Shreya Some, Linda Steg, Julia Steinberger, Diana Urge-Vorsatz
Summary: The study highlights the significant potential of demand-side measures in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and improving human well-being outcomes, with largely positive effects.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Xuan Liu, De Tong, Jiangming Huang, Wenfeng Zheng, Minghui Kong, Guohui Zhou
Summary: The rise of e-commerce is changing consumer behaviours and the value of retail space, impacting shop rents. Using geospatial big data, this study quantifies and evaluates the factors that influence shop rents. It finds that the importance of trade area and neighbourhood services is increasing, challenging traditional location-based approaches.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Qiang Wang, Lili Wang, Rongrong Li
Summary: This study investigates the decoupling impact of trade on carbon emissions and explores the circumstances under which trade can contribute to decoupling carbon emissions. A combination of the Tapio decoupling model and structural threshold model is used to analyze and quantify the impact. The empirical study utilizes panel data from 124 countries worldwide from 2000 to 2018. The results indicate that the relationship between trade openness, economic growth, and carbon emissions primarily exhibits weak decoupling. Additionally, there are two breakpoints in the impact of trade openness on carbon emissions; once these structural breakpoints are exceeded, trade openness inhibits carbon emissions and contributes to global carbon neutrality, contradicting the claims of trade protectionists. At the sub-regional level, trade openness favors carbon neutrality in affluent countries but not in impoverished countries. Therefore, achieving carbon neutrality necessitates free trade, and fairer free trade should benefit countries of different income groups.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Andrea Appolloni, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, Idiano D'Adamo, Massimo Gastaldi, Davide Settembre-Blundo
Summary: This paper analyzes the ceramic tile industries in Italy and Spain as examples of strategic innovation in the European manufacturing context. The study shows the importance of considering social and environmental attributes in products to compete with emerging countries' producers who rely solely on price strategies.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Editorial Material
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yaoxin Zhang, Swee Ching Tan
Summary: Consensus is needed to accurately evaluate the performance and potential of emerging water production technologies, and this article provides recommendations on how to achieve a fair basis for comparison and align research input with actual demand.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
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Environmental Studies
Fang Liu, Muhammad Umair, Junjun Gao
Summary: Gold and crude oil are the two commodities that have the most influence on global stock markets and the real economy during financial crises and the COVID-19 era. However, there is limited research on the overall impact of the volatility of these commodities' prices. This study evaluates the effects of crude oil price volatility on stock market returns in different sectors of several countries between 2000 and 2020 using Quantile-on-Quantile regression and dynamic copula with Markov-Switching.
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Business
Yu Hao, Yunxia Guo, Haitao Wu
Summary: This study explores the impact of ICT development on GTFEE in China's 30 provincial administrative regions from 2006 to 2017, finding that ICT development plays a positive role in promoting GTFEE, which is moderated by environmental regulations. The regression results of the dynamic threshold model indicate that diverse environmental regulation intensities lead to different influences of ICT development on GTFEE, with varying impacts among different regions.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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Business
Shuming Ren, Lianqing Li, Yueqi Han, Yu Hao, Haitao Wu
Summary: This research discusses the impact of digital economy agglomeration on inclusive green growth in China and its transmission mechanism. It finds that digital economy agglomeration has a positive influence on inclusive green growth through factors such as energy consumption, environmental pollution, and economic growth. Additionally, the Broadband China policy is shown to enhance local inclusive green growth but inhibit growth in neighboring cities.
BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Huiping Wang, Runjie Zhang
Summary: The study found that environmental regulation can effectively restrain CO2 emissions in Chinese cities by promoting industrial structure upgrades and technological innovation. However, under the constraints of environmental regulation, foreign direct investment demonstrates a pollution-haven effect. Additionally, urban heterogeneity has a significant impact on the emission reduction effect of environmental regulation.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2022)
Article
Economics
Huwei Wen, Shuai Chen, Chien-Chiang Lee
Summary: This study examines the productivity effect of the low-carbon city pilot policy (LCCP) in China and investigates its financing and investment mechanisms using the difference-in-difference method. The empirical results show that the LCCP policy significantly improves the total factor productivity of energy-intensive enterprises by increasing bank credit supply and encouraging long-term investment. The findings suggest that the LCCP is an effective comprehensive policy for promoting the high-quality development of energy-intensive industries.
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Economics
Muhammad Mohsin, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Muhammad Shahbaz
Summary: This paper estimates the association between financial development and energy poverty in Latin America. The results indicate that the increase in energy poverty is primarily attributed to low levels of financial development.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ahmed Samour, M. Mine Baskaya, Turgut Tursoy
Summary: This study explores the factors influencing renewable energy consumption in the UAE and finds that financial development, FDI, and economic growth can significantly increase renewable energy consumption. Therefore, it is important for the UAE to promote financial development to ensure the stability of the financial markets and to encourage green finance and investments in green energy for sustainable energy development.
