scholarly journals Mechanisms of Environmental Regulation’s Impact on Green Technological Progress—Evidence from China’s Manufacturing Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1600
Author(s):  
Weijiang Liu ◽  
Mingze Du ◽  
Yuxin Bai
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Biased Technological Change ◽  
Chinese Manufacturing Industry

As the world’s largest developing country, and as the home to many of the world’s factories, China plays a crucial role in the sustainable development of the world economy regarding environmental protection, energy conservation, and emission reduction issues. Based on the data from 2003–2015, this paper examined the green total factor productivity and the technological progress in the Chinese manufacturing industry. A slack-based measure (SBM) Malmquist productivity index was used to measure the bias of technological change (BTC), input-biased technological change (IBTC), and output-biased technological change (OBTC) by decomposing the technological progress. It also investigated the mechanism of environmental regulation, property right structure, enterprise-scale, energy consumption structure, and other factors on China’s technological progress bias. The empirical results showed the following: (1) there was a bias of technological progress in the Chinese manufacturing industry during the research period; (2) although China’s manufacturing industry’s output tended to become greener, it was still characterized by a preference for overall CO2 output; and (3) the impact of environmental regulations on the Chinese manufacturing industry’s technological progress had a significant threshold effect. The flexible control of environmental regulatory strength will benefit the Chinese manufacturing industry’s technological development. (4) R&D investment, export delivery value, and structure of energy consumption significantly contributed to promoting technological progress. This study provides further insight into the sustainable development of China’s manufacturing sector to promote green-biased technological progress and to achieve the dual goal of environmental protection and healthy economic growth.

scholarly journals Technological Bias and Its Influencing Factors in Sustainable Development of China’s Transportation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5704
Author(s):  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Xiaoman Zhao ◽  
Changwei Yuan ◽  
Xiu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Transportation Industry ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Biased Technological Change ◽  
Technological Bias

The bias of technological progress, particularly relating to energy saving and carbon emissions reduction, plays a significant role in the sustainable development of transportation, and has not yet received sufficient attention. The objectives of this paper were to examine the bias of technological change (BTC), input-biased technological change (IBTC), and output-biased technological change (OBTC), and their influencing factors in the sustainable development of China’s regional transportation industry from 2005 to 2017. A slack-based measure (SBM) Malmquist productivity index was adopted to measure the BTC, IBTC, and OBTC by decomposing green total factor productivity. The results revealed that: (1) Continuous technological bias progress and input-biased technological progress existed in China’s transportation development from 2005 to 2017, making an important contribution to green total factor productivity. The output-biased technological change was close to 1, indicating a slight impact on the sustainable development of the transportation industry; (2) The bias of technological progress in eastern regions was slightly greater than that in central regions, and obviously greater than that in western regions. Moreover, different provinces experienced different types of technological bias change, with four major types observed during the research period; (3) The input-biased technology of a majority of provinces tended to invest more capital relative to labor, using more capital comparing to energy, and consume more energy relative to labor, while the output-biased technology of most provinces tended to produce desirable outputs (value added in transportation) and reduce the byproduct of CO2 relatively; (4) Average years of education, green patents in transportation, industrial scale, and local government fiscal expenditure in transportation significantly contributed to promoting the bias of technological progress, which was inhibited by the R&D investment. This study provides further insight into the improvement of sustainable development for China’s transportation, thereby helping to guide the government to promote green-biased technological progress and optimize the allocation of resources.

Research on Measure of Energy-Saving and Environmental Protection in Foundry Industry

2014 ◽  
Vol 522-524 ◽  
pp. 845-848
Author(s):  
Ji Gao Li ◽  
Qian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
High Energy ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Foundry Industry ◽  
Save Energy ◽  
High Energy Consumption

According the high energy consumption and pollution in foundry industry, the reason of high energy consumption and the source of the pollution were analyzed. Based on the analysis, for the sustainable development of foundry industry, some effective measures were suggested: defining the responsibility of all referred parties (governor and enterpriser); trying to save energy and protect environment from the source; reusing the waste scientifically.

scholarly journals An Improved Forecasting Method and Application of China’s Energy Consumption under the Carbon Peak Target

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8670
Author(s):  
Xiwen Cui ◽  
Shaojun E ◽  
Dongxiao Niu ◽  
Dongyu Wang ◽  
Mingyu Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Optimization Methods ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
Forecasting Method ◽  
Forecasting Performance ◽  
Carbon Peak

In the process of economic development, the consumption of energy leads to environmental pollution. Environmental pollution affects the sustainable development of the world, and therefore energy consumption needs to be controlled. To help China formulate sustainable development policies, this paper proposes an energy consumption forecasting model based on an improved whale algorithm optimizing a linear support vector regression machine. The model combines multiple optimization methods to overcome the shortcomings of traditional models. This effectively improves the forecasting performance. The results of the projection of China’s future energy consumption data show that current policies are unable to achieve the carbon peak target. This result requires China to develop relevant policies, especially measures related to energy consumption factors, as soon as possible to ensure that China can achieve its peak carbon targets.

The Research on the Strategies for Sustainable Development and Environmental Protection

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 786-790
Author(s):  
Chen Chen Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
National Economic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dialectical Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of

The strategies for sustainable development have been included in the medium and long term plan of 2010 for national economic and social development. Protecting the environment is the most important prerequisite and safeguards for the sustainable development strategy. In the study, we described the history of the environmental problems in the world, the proposal and implications of sustainable development, and outlined the dialectical relationship of development with the environment. The environmental protection measures for sustainable development were proposed here, according to the environmental situation severely affecting its biophysical environment.

scholarly journals Sustainability Indicators and Environmental Safety Management as Illustrated with an Example of the Polish Energy Sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 389-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wioletta Skrodzka ◽  
Olga Kiriliuk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
The Eu

AbstractPower engineering is one of the key areas of sustainable development. Many countries create new concepts of environmental safety management and modify their energy systems to be in line with the goals of sustainable development in the EU. Sustainable development indicators can be a tool for monitoring the set goals of environmental safety management. The aim of the article is to assess the environmental safety management of the energy sector in Poland in relation to EU as well as presenting the concept of sustainable energy development and indicators used to assess the development of energy in the following dimensions: social, economic and ecological. The indicators used to assess the sustainable development of energy in the following dimensions were compared: sustainable consumption and production, marking the production and consumption of energy; organizations and sites with eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS); registration climate change, marking GHG emissions and the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption; sustainable transport, marking the energy consumption of transport relative to GDP. The article will test the hypothesis that the structure of obtaining energy in Poland and the tempo of change in this respect differ from the EU average.

Application of Green Construction in a Project in Huangshi

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 1143-1147
Author(s):  
Hao Wang ◽  
Hong Tang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Water Saving ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Green Construction ◽  
Land Saving ◽  
Technical Measures ◽  
Material Saving

Green and Pollution-Free is Widely Advocated as a New Trend in the Construction Industry Nowadays. the Key Measures for this Technology are Energy Saving, Material Saving, Water Saving, Land Saving, as well as Protecting the Environment during Construction. Green Construction is a Concrete Manifestation of the Concept of Sustainable Development in the Construction Phase, the Implementation of which is of Great Significance to Promote the Sustainable Development of the Construction Industry. Technical Measures on Green Construction of the Project in Huangshi are Described in Detail. these Measures on Energy-Saving and Environmental Protection will have some Reference on the Promotion of Green Construction.

scholarly journals Evaluation and Policy Research on the Sustainable Development of China’s Rare Earth Resources

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuedong Liang ◽  
Meng Ye ◽  
Li Yang ◽  
Wanbing Fu ◽  
Zhi Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rare Earth ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Entropy Method ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Low Efficiency

As rare earth resources are indispensable raw materials for modern society, they have become strategic global reserve resources. Even though China is the world’s largest producer and exporter of rare earth, the industry has low efficiency and severe problems with over-exploitation and environmental pollution; therefore, there needs to be a greater focus on the sustainable exploitation of rare earth resources. This paper establishes an innovative evaluation index system for the sustainable development of China’s rare earth resources from six main aspects; economic development, social progress, environmental protection, technological innovation, rare earth development and utilization, and rare earth protection in which the indicators are assessed using an entropy method. Grey correlation analysis was used to evaluate China’s rare earth sustainable development level from 2006–2016, from which it was found that sustainable development was poor from 2006–2010 and marginally better from 2011–2016. The main factor affecting rare earth sustainable development in China was found to be the lag in the development of environment protection system and rare earth protection system. Policy recommendations for improving China’s rare earth protection, environmental protection, and technological innovation are proposed to guide government regulations and assist rare earth industry personnel.

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