Environmental protection and happiness: A long-run relationship in Europe

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Leqian Ouyang ◽

Daming You

Keyword(s):

Environmental Protection ◽

Local Governments ◽

Fiscal Decentralization ◽

Negative Impact ◽

National Level ◽

Green Innovation ◽

Eastern Area ◽

Long Run ◽

The Difference ◽

Financial Power

One of the main purposes of the 2015 Environmental Protection Law (EPL) of the People's Republic of China is to boost the green innovation of the enterprises. Using heavy-polluting enterprises as examples, this paper uses the Difference-in-difference analysis (DDD) technique to analyze the influence of EPL on the green innovation of enterprises under fiscal decentralization and enterprise heterogeneity. Results show that EPL exerts a negative impact on the green innovation of heavy-polluting enterprises at the national level, as well as those in the central and western areas specifically. The only presence of positive motivation for green innovation is being found in the eastern area, although, the motivation seems to be insignificant. The negative impacts have been lasting in the long run, especially for the low-performance enterprises in the central areas. As for the targeted implementation of EPL in China, local governments should make the best use of financial power under fiscal decentralization. This balanced approach is designed to motivate enterprises in different regions with various performance levels to develop green innovation based on their different weaknesses and strengths.

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Eco-Controlling: Prospects for the Environmental Policy in Enterprise Management

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202110005011 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 100 ◽

pp. 05011

Author(s):

Hanna Matukova ◽

Valentyna Khrapkina ◽

Natalia Bahashova ◽

Daria Matukova-Yaryha ◽

Alla Levitskaia

Keyword(s):

Control System ◽

Environmental Policy ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Economic Environment ◽

Enterprise Management ◽

Environmental Aspects ◽

Environmental Challenges ◽

Industrial Enterprises ◽

Long Run ◽

Effective Activity

The research defines eco-controlling as a new trend of the enterprise environmental policy in the field of environmental protection, its place in the enterprise control system under conditions of permanent changes of the economic environment and environmental challenges. There are outlined tasks of eco-controlling that covers a wide variety of issues associated with ensuring the enterprise’s effective activity in the long run considering requirements of environmental protection. The authors substantiate efficiency of introducing eco-controlling as a set of tasks of planning, accounting, controlling, analyzing and auditing environmental aspects of industrial enterprises’ activity.

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Fiscal and Budgetary Policy Efforts towards Climate Change Mitigation in Romania

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13052802 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 2802

Author(s):

Nicoleta Mihaela Florea ◽

Georgeta-Madalina Meghisan-Toma ◽

Silvia Puiu ◽

Flaviu Meghisan ◽

Marius Dalian Doran ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽

Greenhouse Gas ◽

Environmental Taxes ◽

Gas Emissions ◽

Budgetary Policy ◽

Long Run ◽

Green Taxes ◽

Short Run

To mitigate the negative effects of climate change on the environment, the Member States of the European Union implement fiscal measures and commit budgetary expenditures to ensure sustainable economic development. Romania, in line with the Union’s objectives, resorted to the application of a system of environmental taxes and provided in the budgetary policy government expenditures for environmental protection. The aim of the research is to highlight the effects of these measures on the environment by analysing the short-run and long-run causal relationships between greenhouse gas emissions, green taxes and government expenditures on environmental protection. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method and Granger causality tests were used to demonstrate the existence of these relationships and the intensity with which they manifest. Following the analysis, we identified a significant long-run influence of government spending on environmental protection on greenhouse gas emissions but also numerous short-run and long-run causal relationships between greenhouse gas emissions and green taxes, applied in Romania. The results of the research consider the impact of public expenses for environment protection, a variable not yet applied for Romania, on greenhouse gas emissions’ decrease, in correlation with environmental taxes per source of origin.

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Optimization of Energy-Saving Lighting Line Adjustable Research

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.668-669.884 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 668-669 ◽

pp. 884-887

Author(s):

Yin Wang ◽

Yun Zhe Zhang

Keyword(s):

Energy Saving ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Bright Light ◽

Incandescent Lamp ◽

Long Run ◽

Power Frequency

Energy-saving lamp will still be a favorite product on the lighting market in the long run. One of the drawbacks of common energy saving lamp is that it cannot be dimmed. Energy is wasted when bright light is not necessary. To promote the idea of energy saving and environmental protection, a plan for the applicability of dimming of energy saving lamp is in urgent need. In this study, we put forward two plans for the dimming of energy saving lamp. Our effort is to make the energy saving lamp adapted to the variety of power frequency and to maximize its smooth dimming as close to that of an incandescent lamp.

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