Modelling pollution-generating technologies in performance benchmarking: Recent developments, limits and future prospects in the nonparametric framework

KH Dakpo, P Jeanneaux, L Latruffe - European journal of operational …, 2016 - Elsevier
This article is a critical review of methods integrating environmental aspects into productive
efficiency. We describe the classic modelling approach relying on the weak disposability …

Can China achieve carbon neutrality without power shortage? A substitutability perspective

Y Zhao, H Zhong, F Kong, N Zhang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The thermal power sector is responsible for more than 40% of China's carbon mitigation
targets, making it critical in achieving carbon neutrality. However, the adoption of the “one …

Environmental efficiency analysis of China's regional industry: a data envelopment analysis (DEA) based approach

L Chen, G Jia - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
China's economic has got remarkable achievements during the past 30 years, which has
brought tremendous pressure on natural resources and serious environmental pollution at …

How will the emissions trading scheme save cost for achieving China's 2020 carbon intensity reduction target?

LB Cui, Y Fan, L Zhu, QH Bi - Applied Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Chinese government has committed to reduce its carbon intensity by 40–45% over the
period 2005–2020 at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit. To achieve the target in a cost …

Carbon emission reduction characteristics for China's manufacturing firms: Implications for formulating carbon policies

Y An, D Zhou, J Yu, X Shi, Q Wang - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The rapid development of China's manufacturing industry since China's accession to WTO in
2001 has dramatically increased China's carbon emissions. To inform the carbon policy …

On the environmental performance analysis: a combined fuzzy data envelopment analysis and artificial intelligence algorithms

A Amirteimoori, T Allahviranloo, M Zadmirzaei… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Greenhouse gases (GHG) remain in the atmosphere for a very long-time causing alarmingly
fast warming worldwide (global warming); especially Carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions have …

How does China's energy-consumption trading policy affect the carbon abatement costs? An analysis based on spatial difference-in-differences method

J Wang, Z Li, Y Wang - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
To attain China's target of carbon neutrality by 2060, the implementation of the Energy
Consumption Trading (ECT) system serves as an effective approach to improve energy …

The effect of environmental regulation on the marginal abatement cost of industrial firms: Evidence from the 11th Five-Year Plan in China

N Zhang, X Huang, C Qi - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
The Chinese government set specific provincial reduction targets for sulfur dioxide (SO 2)
and chemical oxygen demand (COD) in the 11th Five-Year Plan. However, due to the …

The economic and environmental efficiency assessment in EU cross-country: Evidence from DEA and quantile regression approach

V Moutinho, M Madaleno, M Robaina - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
This article aims to estimate the efficiency of 26 different European Countries over 2001 and
2012 comparing their performance. Data Envelopment Analysis technique is used in a first …

Metafroniter energy efficiency with CO2 emissions and its convergence analysis for China

K Li, B Lin - Energy Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper measures the energy efficiency performance with carbon dioxide (CO 2)
emissions in 30 provinces in China during the period of 1997–2011 using a meta-frontier …