Towards Carbon Neutrality: The Innovation Efficiency of China’s Forestry Green Technology and Its Spatial Spillover Effects
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
No suggestion and highly impressive paper with extensive methodological approach and very important policy recommendations at provincial and national level for China's carbon mitigation ambitions for the AFOLU sector.
Most countries would learn from this approach in terms of their forestry sector evaluation green technology efficiency and improving as well as understanding FGTIEs within the said country towards Paris commitments.
Author Response
Dear reviewer,
Thank you very much for your precious time and kind attention. We appreciate your approval of our manuscript. We hope that the research work done in this paper will be useful to Paris commitments and the researchers in other related fields.
Once again, thank you very much for reading our paper carefully and giving the above positive comments.
Reviewer 2 Report
It is well organized study and appropriate subject for journal. Little minor recommendation that;
Lines 79-81 The following part can be deleted “The remainder of this study is organised as follows. Section 2 reviews the relevant literature. Section 3 describes the data and analysis methods. Section 4 presents the empirical results and discussion. Finally, Section 5 details the conclusions and proposed pol-icy implications.”
Lines 84-85 delete this part “Current research related to GTIE focuses on measurement methods, measurement objectives and influencing factors.”
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Reviewer 3 Report
Towards the Carbon Neutrality: China´s Forestry Green Technology Innovation Efficiency and its Spatial Spillover Effects
The paper analysis efficiency of forestry green technology innovations using Data Envelopment Analysis. The authors analysed in the detail the influencing factors on efficiency of forestry green technology innovations. The authors of the paper found interesting results. Based on these results, they suggested political consequences, which is important for the possible use of the analysis results in practice.
However, some issues need to be addressed before the paper can be considered for publication:
· I personally miss the table with efficiency values for single provinces, it could be an attachment of the paper
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This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.
