Green finance and corporate environmental responsibility: evidence from heavily polluting listed enterprises in China

Green finance is not just a global trend, but it has become an important channel for industrialized countries to achieve sustainable growth. However, few studies have discussed the environmental governance effects of green finance from the micro-firm level. Based on the data of Chinese A-share listed firms in heavily polluting industries, we, combining with property rights and environmental regulation, empirically research the influence of green finance on corporate environmental responsibility (CER) performance. Results indicate that green finance has a significant negative effect on the environmental responsibility of heavily polluting firms. The result remains after a series of robustness tests. In addition, property rights and environmental regulation play a moderating role in the above relationship. The negative impact of green finance on CER is stronger in private firms and firms in areas with low environmental regulation intensity. Moreover, we observe that green finance decreases the CER performance of heavily polluting firms by increasing financing constraints, reducing environmental investment, and diminishing technological innovation. This study identifies the external factors that influence CER and also provides implications and theoretical support for the government to improve the setting and the implementation of green finance policy in the future.

     

Tank-dependence of the functionality and network differentiation of activated sludge community in a full-scale anaerobic/anoxic/aerobic municipal sewage treatment plant

● Environmental parameters affected functional bacteria and network associations. ● The structure and interactions of AS networks changed greatly within tanks. ● Anoxic co-occurrence network was more unstable and easily influenced. ● Composition of functional bacteria had a seasonal succession pattern. ● Tetrasphaera was the major PAO in spring and winter leading a better P removal. Understanding the structures and dynamics of bacterial communities in activated sludge (AS) in full-scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is of both engineering and ecological significance. Previous investigations have mainly focused on the AS communities of WWTP aeration tanks, and the differences and interactions between the communities in anaerobic and anoxic tanks of the AS system remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the structures of bacterial communities and their inter-connections in three tanks (anaerobic, anoxic, and aerobic) and influent from a full-scale WWTP with conventional anaerobic/anoxic/aerobic (A/A/O) process over a year to explore their functionality and network differentiation. High-throughput sequencing showed that community compositions did not differ appreciably between the different tanks, likely due to the continuous sludge community interchange between tanks. However, network analysis showed significant differences in inter-species relationships, OTU topological roles, and keystone populations in the different AS communities. Moreover, the anoxic network is expected to be more unstable and easily affected by environmental disturbance. Tank-associated environmental factors, including dissolved oxygen, pH, and nutrients, were found to affect the relative abundance of functional genera (i.e., AOB, NOB, PAOs, and denitrifiers), suggesting that these groups were more susceptible to environmental variables than other bacteria. Therefore, this work could assist in improving our understanding of tank-associated microbial ecology, particularly the response of functional bacteria to seasonal variations in WWTPs employing A/A/O process.     

基于安全生产标准化的安全文化建设系统化研究

通过对宁钢安全文化的形态和层次结构的分析,阐述了安全文化的功能特点和安全文化载体在安全文化建设中的作用,提出了安全文化建设的层次结构模式和安全文化对人的安全行为的影响模式.通过实施安全生产标准化与安全文化的融合,形成了具有企业特色的安全文化建设的系统化、结构化思路,创造性提出了宁钢"高压、严管、自主、诚信"的安全文化理...     

塑料包装物中邻苯二甲酸酯的分布统计分析

选取36种日用塑料包装物作为研究对象,采用方差分析和多重比较检验等统计方法,对其所含6种优先控制污染物—邻苯二甲酸酯(PAEs)的分布特点进行统计分析.结果表明,仅有2.78%的塑料样品没有PAEs被检出,50%的样品含有2种或2种以上PAEs;其中邻苯二甲酸二丁酯(DBP)和邻苯二甲酸二(2-乙基)己酯(DEHP)分布最为广泛,存在于97.22%的样品中.塑料包装袋的来源、色彩与其ΣPAEs具有较高的关联性,菜市场包装袋的ΣPAEs显著高于超市塑料包装袋和一次性塑料包装袋的ΣPAEs;彩色塑料包装袋中ΣPAEs高于非彩色塑料包装袋;在材质中加入颜料的塑料包装袋其ΣPAEs明显高于表面彩绘的塑料包装袋.     

Effects of sandy desertified land rehabilitation on soil carbon sequestration and aggregation in an arid region in China

The rehabilitation of sandy desertified land in semi-arid and arid regions has a great potential to increase carbon sequestration and improve soil quality. Our objective was to investigate the changes in the soil carbon pool and soil properties of surface soil (0–15 cm) under different types of rehabilitation management. Our study was done in the short-term (7 years) and long-term (32 years) desertification control sites in a marginal oasis of northwest China. The different management treatments were: (1) untreated shifting sand land as control; (2) sand-fixing shrubs with straw checkerboards; (3) poplar (Populus gansuensis) shelter forest; and (4) irrigated cropland after leveling sand dune. The results showed that the rehabilitation of severe sandy desertified land resulted in significant increases in soil organic C (SOC), inorganic C, and total N concentrations, as well as enhanced soil aggregation. Over a 7-year period of revegetation and cultivation, SOC concentration in the recovered shrub land, forest land and irrigated cropland increased by 4.1, 14.6 and 11.9 times compared to the control site (shifting sand land), and increased by 11.2, 17.0 and 23.0 times over the 32-year recovery period. Total N, labile C (KMnO₄–oxidation C), C management index (CMI) and inorganic C (CaCO₃–C) showed a similar increasing trend as SOC. The increased soil C and N was positively related to the accumulation of fine particle fractions. The accumulation of silt and clay, soil C and CaCO₃ enhanced the formation of aggregates, which was beneficial to mitigate wind erosion. The percentage of >0.25 mm dry aggregates increased from 18.0% in the control site to 20.0–87.2% in the recovery sites, and the mean weight diameter (MWD) of water-stable aggregates significantly increased, with a range of 0.09–0.30 mm at the recovery sites. Long-term irrigation and fertilization led to a greater soil C and N accumulation in cropland than in shrub and forest lands. The amount of soil C sequestration reached up to 1.8–9.4 and 7.5–17.3 Mg ha^?1 at the 0–15 cm layer over a 7- and 32-year rehabilitation period compared to the control site, suggesting that desertification control has a great potential for sequestering soil C and improving soil quality in northwest China.     

顶空气相色谱法测定水和废水中的邻二氯苯

采用顶空采样,填充柱分离,ECD测定水和废水中的邻二氯苯,在柱温150℃,进样室温200℃,ECD温300％下,邻二氯苯的保留时间为3．78min,该方法灵敏度高,最低检出浓度为0．02μg／L;精密度好,对标准样品六次测定的相对标准偏差小于3．9％;准确度高,加标回收率在95％～104％之间。操作简便、测定快速,克服了萃取法烦琐、有毒、易污染色谱柱等缺点。     

圆管镦锻法兰成形的试验研究

通过对圆管镦锻法兰成形过程进行有限元数值模拟 ,分析了圆管坯料尺寸、摩擦等因素对圆管镦锻法兰成形过程中金属流动的影响及缺陷产生的原因。根据有限元数值模拟结果 ,进行了圆管镦锻法兰成形试验 ,数值模拟结果与试验结果具有较好的一致性。     

软岩地基下AP1000核电屏蔽厂房结构地震响应研究

以AP1000核电屏蔽厂房结构为研究对象,进行考虑土-结构相互作用的地震响应分析,探讨不同厚度和不同地表倾斜角度软岩场地对屏蔽厂房结构地震响应的影响。利用ABAQUS有限元软件建立了软岩层厚度分别为25、30、35、40m以及地表倾斜角度分别为0°、3°和6°的土-结构相互作用模型,实现了地震动输入。对计算所得楼层响应谱进行对比分析可知,软岩层较硬岩层对地震传播有一定的放大效应,软岩层厚度的增加会使峰值频率往低频方向移动;倾斜场地对楼层响应谱高频部分有一定的放大效应。该研究结果对软岩场地下核电厂抗震安全评价具有一定参考意义。     

火焰原子吸收分光光度法测定总铬

研究了用火焰原子吸收分光光度法直接测定水和废水中的总铬。通过不同条件的实验 ,确定了最佳的分析条件 ;并通过标准样品和实际样品的分析 ,验证了方法的准确度和精密度。在实验基础上 ,建立空白试验、准确度质量控制图 ,以便定期对各种监测数据提供可行的质量保证措施。实验结果表明 :该法快速方便 ,提高了分析效率 ,准确度高 ,精密度好 ,值得普及和推广     

高质量发展新形势下的现有水价制度分析——以某工业园区为例

企业用水、排水量巨大,排水污染成分复杂.在高质量发展新形势要求下现行的水价标准和水环境持续改善目标之间存在不匹配现象.该研究通过问卷调研获得一手数据,运用水平衡模型计算了目标工业园区内企业的真实用水和排水量,并就两档水资源费和污水处理费情境下企业的承受能力进行了分析讨论.结果表明,工业园区企业存在着私自取水和偷排废水情...