Can low-carbon city pilot policy decrease urban energy poverty?

Y Song, Y He, JM Sahut, SH Shah - Energy Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Regional energy poverty has become an important issue in sustainable development and
the shared prosperity context. This paper employed a multiperiod difference-in-differences …

Analysis of the influence and coupling effect of environmental regulation policy tools on industrial green and low-carbon transformation

D **grong, Z Haitao, Z Wenqing, L Jiahui, Y Yi… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Industrial green and low-carbon transformation plays a crucial role in China's efforts to
achieve its Carbon peaking and Carbon neutrality objectives. The implementation of …

Impact of Heterogeneous Environmental Regulations on Green Innovation Efficiency in China's Industry

J Hao, W Xu, Z Chen, B Yuan, Y Wu - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Innovation is the primary driving force for development, and green innovation efficiency
(GIE) plays a key role in regional sustainable development. Moreover, environmental …

Enterprise performance empowered by heterogeneous environmental laws: A digital economy

R Li, Y Li, X Chen, J Wu, M Song, Y Zhou - Energy Economics, 2025 - Elsevier
As the uncertainty of environmental benefits and climate change leads enterprises to misuse
environmental dividends for vested interest, environmental pollution is becoming a pressing …

Does high-speed rail construction reduce air pollution? Evidence from prefecture-level cities in China

H Liu, A Zhang, J Wu, Q Zhu - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Based on data from 282 cities in China, this study assesses the impact of high-speed rail
(HSR) construction on air pollution with a difference-in-difference (DID) method and a quasi …

Does industrial relocation impact green economic efficiency? Evidence from China's energy-intensive industries

C Wang, B Lin - Research in International Business and Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
Utilizing the latest multi-regional input-output (MRIO) tables and spatial econometric model,
this paper measures the inter-provincial relocations of energy-intensive industries (REI) in …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial spillover effects of environmental regulation on ecological industrialization: Evidence from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River

W **e, Y Qing, L Tao, W Li, C Wen - International Review of Economics & …, 2025 - Elsevier
In the context of China's ecological civilization initiative, understanding the spatial spillover
effects of environmental regulation on ecological industrialization in the upper reaches of the …

Create or squeeze out? The effect of environmental protection tax on labor demand and labor demand transfer: evidence from China

S Xu, J Huang, K Zheng - Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 2024 - Springer
This paper uses panel data from 286 cities across 30 provinces in China to construct an
intensity difference-in-differences model, examining the impact of the environmental …

Assessing the relationship between foreign direct investment and low carbon development in Chinese manufacturing industry

J Guo, X Zhao, H Cheng - International Journal of Environmental Science …, 2024 - Springer
Although research on the impact of foreign direct investment and low-carbon development in
target nations has received attention, studies exploring the influence mechanisms of foreign …

Non-linear research on artificial intelligence empowering green economic efficiency under integrated governance framework

Z Song, Y Deng - Frontiers in Environmental Economics, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a pivotal role in the development of the green economy. This
paper examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on green economic efficiency (GEE) …