Can local environmental constraints improve enterprise’s green innovation quality? Evidence from Chinese-listed firms

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The target responsibility system of environmental protection is one of the vital channels to achieve a win–win situation for both economic...     

Does geopolitical risk escalate CO2 emissions? Evidence from the BRICS countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - High levels of CO2 emissions are extensively cited as one of the main global concerns nowadays. Therefore, researchers have been investigating the...     

Could environmental regulations improve the quality of export products? Evidence from China’s implementation of pollutant discharge fee

This study investigates the effect of Chinese environmental regulations on the quality of export products. As the main way for the government to protect the environment, environmental regulations have greatly influenced the production behavior of enterprises. Based on the data of China’s pollutant discharge fee implementation and industrial enterprise-pollution panel data, we find that the government’s environmental regulations have significantly improved the quality of export products, and this conclusion is still valid after a series of robustness tests. Further analysis shows that the increase in the quality of export products originating from the regulated areas could be attributed to promoting enterprise innovation and reducing resource misallocation. The results in this study provide evidence that the Chinese government could coordinate economic and environmental protection in the new era.

     

Can anti-corruption improve the quality of environmental information disclosure?

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study takes the anti-corruption campaign of the 18th CPC National Congress in China as an exogenous impact build a double difference (DID) model,...     

Does functional specialization affect collaborative development? Evidence from four Chinese metropolitan areas

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The layout of urban spatial functions may play an important role in sustainable regional development. Given the rapid development of urbanization in...     

Does economic policy uncertainty matter for carbon emission? Evidence from US sector level data

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Economic policy uncertainty (EPU) will affect the external business environment of economic entities, which in turn affects the decision-making of...     

Does industrial collaborative agglomeration improve environmental efficiency? Insights from China’s population structure

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Nowadays, the development of green economy and the improvement of environmental efficiency have been a hotspot in both academia and industry....     

Does renewable energy consumption contribute to the development of low-carbon economy? Evidence from China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Stimulating renewable energy consumption has become a major strategic choice for China to both fulfill the international commitment to reduce carbon...     

Can environmental regulations break down domestic market segmentation? Evidence from China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - While local protectionism and market segmentation owing to fiscal decentralization are not conducive to broad economic development, they may be...     

Do international investment contribute to environmental pollution? Evidence from 20 African countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - International investment is needed in every economy, and every economy is expected to grow and attract investment. Despite the need of the above in...     

Does energy consumption contribute to environmental pollutants? evidence from SAARC countries

The objective of the study is to examine the causal relationship between energy consumption and environmental pollutants in selected South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries, namely, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Srilanka, over the period of 1975–2011. The results indicate that energy consumption acts as an important driver to increase environmental pollutants in SAARC countries. Granger causality runs from energy consumption to environmental pollutants, but not vice versa, except carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in Nepal where there exists a bidirectional causality between CO₂ and energy consumption. Methane emissions in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Srilanka and extreme temperature in India and Srilanka do not Granger cause energy consumption via both routes, which holds neutrality hypothesis. Variance decomposition analysis shows that among all the environmental indicators, CO₂ in Bangladesh and Nepal exerts the largest contribution to changes in electric power consumption. Average precipitation in India, methane emissions in Pakistan, and extreme temperature in Srilanka exert the largest contribution.     

Does agricultural development induce environmental pollution in E7? A myth or reality

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Environmental degradation caused by various human activities has been a subject of attention over the globe. There is a concern on how to maintain a...     

Does digitalization matter in green preferences in nexus of output volatility and environmental quality?

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The fact is that output volatility and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions move together over the period. This empirical study examines the dynamic effect...     

Does pollution levy standard reform promotes green innovation? Evidence from China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Taking advantage of the quasi-natural experiment generated by the adjustment of pollution levy standard in different Chinese provinces and utilizing...     

Does green credit policy affect corporate debt financing? Evidence from China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Green finance is one of the most important ways to help companies achieve green transformation and development. We construct a quasi-natural...     

Do personal remittances cause environmental pollution? Evidence from the top eight remittance-receiving countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - This study aims to examine the asymmetric impact of personal remittances on environmental pollution with financial development (FD) as an explanatory...     

Dissipating environmental pollution in the BRICS economies: do urbanization,globalization, energy innovation,and financial development matter?

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The question of how Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS countries) can substantially dissipate environmental pollution (EVP) remains...     

Do higher education research and development expenditures affect environmental sustainability? New evidence from Chinese provinces

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Even though higher education R&D expenditures (HEEXP) are important determinants of economic growth that facilitate science, technology, new...     

How CO2 emissions respond to changes in government size and level of digitalization? Evidence from the BRICS countries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - The role of government size and digitization in the process of environmental quality is a matter of considerable debate in the field of environmental...