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Studies of Energy Economics and Environmental Policies in China

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 6316

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School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: development economics; agricultural economics; energy policy

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Institute of Economic Research, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
Interests: development economics; public economics; industrial organization; corporate finance; kinetic energy conversion for urban development

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Dear Colleagues,

Ecosystem sustainability is quite important to social and economic development. But it has been threatened by indiscriminate carbon emissions and environmental pollution in recent decades. As the world’s largest carbon emitter, China proposed the goal of "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality" in 2020 to achieve the highest quality and cleanest development. Therefore, how to accelerate industrial energy upgrading through technological transformation to achieve sustainable development has become an important issue of concern. To achieve a new development pattern in the energy economy and ensure sustainable environmental development, "Energies" seeks to publish high-quality articles to help understand the role of the energy industry in environmental sustainable development.

The Special Issue will consider all aspects of energy economics and environmental protection. Indicative topics for this special issue could be but are not limited to the following:

Energy consumption and green technology innovation;

Evaluation of the effectiveness of environmental policies;

The impact of energy use on the environment and climate;

Environmental policy and energy equity;

Financial instruments supporting energy transformation;

A new economic growth model towards carbon neutrality;

Energy security and energy efficiency;

Digital development & carbon emission& environment protection;

Climate change and inequality.

Dr. Jinyang Cai
Dr. Linke Hou
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • energy consumption and green technology innovation
  • evaluation of the effectiveness of environmental policies
  • the impact of energy use on the environment and climate
  • environmental policy and energy equity financial instruments supporting energy transformation
  • a new economic growth model towards carbon neutrality
  • energy security and energy efficiency
  • digital development & carbon emission& environment protection
  • climate change and inequality

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Green Technology Innovation and Carbon Emission Performance of the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Urban Agglomeration: Mechanism and Spatio-Temporal Evolution
by Yijun Guo, Xifan Li and Sheyun Li
Energies 2024, 17(21), 5274; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17215274 - 23 Oct 2024
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Amid the increasingly severe global climate change situation, green technology innovation has become an important means to promote carbon reduction and achieve the transition to a low-carbon economy. This study aims to systematically analyze the relationship between green technology innovation and carbon emission [...] Read more.
Amid the increasingly severe global climate change situation, green technology innovation has become an important means to promote carbon reduction and achieve the transition to a low-carbon economy. This study aims to systematically analyze the relationship between green technology innovation and carbon emission performance in the urban agglomeration of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, exploring the degree of coupling and coordination between different cities. Utilizing data from 2011 to 2021, we employ methods such as the Coupling Coordination Degree Model and fixed effects model to achieve our objectives. Our findings reveal that both green technology innovation and carbon emission performance in this region are on an upward trend; however, the growth rate of green technology innovation showed a slowdown in 2021. Notably, there are disparities in the coupling coordination degree among cities, with economically developed areas exhibiting a faster growth rate. Moreover, green technology innovation significantly enhances carbon emission performance, and heterogeneity tests indicate that this impact is even more pronounced in cities with weaker environmental regulations. Despite regional differences, the overall trend remains positive. Full article
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Regional Breakthrough Innovation Change Strategies, Ecological Location Suitability of High-Tech Industry Innovation Ecosystems, and Green Energy
by Zemenghong Bao, Zhisen Lin, Tiantian Jin and Kun Lv
Energies 2024, 17(16), 3938; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17163938 - 8 Aug 2024
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Against the backdrop of an ongoing energy revolution, this study measured the regional green energy efficiency and ecological niche suitability of high-tech industry innovation ecosystems using the Super-SBM and entropy methods. We employed panel data from 30 mainland provinces (excluding Tibet) from 2009 [...] Read more.
Against the backdrop of an ongoing energy revolution, this study measured the regional green energy efficiency and ecological niche suitability of high-tech industry innovation ecosystems using the Super-SBM and entropy methods. We employed panel data from 30 mainland provinces (excluding Tibet) from 2009 to 2021 to conduct a quasi-natural experiment using spatial difference-in-differences models and double machine learning models. This was performed in order to investigate the impact mechanisms of the transformation of ecological niche suitability within the innovation ecosystems of high-tech industries driven by regional breakthrough innovation change strategies on green energy efficiency. The findings of this study revealed the following: (1) Driven by regional breakthrough innovation strategies, the transformation of the ecological niche suitability of high-tech industry innovation ecosystems has significant and positive local effects and spillover effects on green energy efficiency. (2) Regional breakthrough innovation strategies have a significant and positive mediating transmission effect on green energy efficiency through the development and optimization of internal factors within the ecological niche suitability of high-tech industry innovation ecosystems, including innovation entities, support, vitality, resources, and environment. (3) The transformation of the ecological niche suitability of high-tech industry innovation ecosystems driven by regional breakthrough innovation strategies promotes the advancement and rationalization of the industrial structure, thus indirectly enhancing regional green energy efficiency. These findings are of paramount importance for propelling the next wave of regional disruptive innovation reform strategies, ensuring that the outcomes of these reforms drive the ecological niche suitability of high-tech industry innovation ecosystems toward the advancement and realization of clean and efficient energy utilization. Full article
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Power Generation Mix Optimization under Auction Mechanism for Carbon Emission Rights
by Erdong Zhao, Jianmin Chen, Junmei Lan and Liwei Liu
Energies 2024, 17(3), 617; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17030617 - 27 Jan 2024
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As the international community attaches importance to environmental and climate issues, carbon dioxide emissions in various countries have been subject to constraints and limits. The carbon trading market, as a market tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has gone through a development process [...] Read more.
As the international community attaches importance to environmental and climate issues, carbon dioxide emissions in various countries have been subject to constraints and limits. The carbon trading market, as a market tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has gone through a development process from a pilot carbon market to a national carbon market in China. At present, the industries included in the national carbon market are mainly the electric power industry, and the carbon emissions of the electric power industry account for about 40% of the national carbon emissions. According to the construction history of foreign carbon markets, China’s future carbon quota allocation will gradually transition from free allocation to auction allocation, and the auction mechanism will bring a heavy economic burden to the electric power industry, especially the thermal power generation industry. Therefore, this study takes Guangdong Province as an example to optimize the power generation mix with the objective of minimizing the total economic cost after the innovative introduction of the carbon quota auction mechanism, constructs an optimization model of the power generation mix based on the auction ratio by comprehensively applying the system dynamics model and the multi-objective linear programming model, systematically researches the power generation structure under different auction ratios with the time scale of months, and quantitatively evaluates the economic inputs needed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. The results of the study show that after comprehensively comparing the total economic cost, renewable energy development, and carbon emissions, it is the most scientific and reasonable to set the auction ratio of carbon allowances at 20%, which achieves the best level of economic and environmental benefits. Full article
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The Impact of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism on China’s Exports to the EU
by Jingzhi Zhu, Yuhuan Zhao and Lu Zheng
Energies 2024, 17(2), 509; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17020509 - 20 Jan 2024
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The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which is regarded as the EU’s key policy tool to address carbon leakage, might have a non-negligible impact on China’s exports, as China is an important trading partner for the EU’s carbon-intensive products. This paper uses [...] Read more.
The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which is regarded as the EU’s key policy tool to address carbon leakage, might have a non-negligible impact on China’s exports, as China is an important trading partner for the EU’s carbon-intensive products. This paper uses the GTAP-E model to simulate the impact of the EU CBAM on China’s exports to the EU from four aspects, export price, trade structure, trade value and terms of trade, by setting up multiple scenarios. The results show that the EU CBAM reduces the export prices of China’s taxed sectors to the EU, and that the export prices of other sectors show the same change characteristics. The export volume of China’s taxed sectors decreases differently with the export transfer effect and export inhibition effect. In terms of trade value, the EU carbon tariffs not only reduce China’s export value but also lead to a reduction in EU exports. The implementation of the EU CBAM improves the terms of trade of the EU and worsens the terms of trade of China. An expansion of the scope of taxation and a change in the calculation method of carbon emissions would aggravate the change in the terms of trade. The results suggest that feasible measures should be taken to strengthen international cooperation, promote the construction of a unified national carbon market and export diversification, and establish a firm carbon emission accounting system in order to mitigate the negative impact of the EU CBAM. Full article
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