Is artificial intelligence a curse or a blessing for enterprise energy intensity? Evidence from China

W Zhang, M Zeng - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced significant momentum worldwide in recent years.
However, its rapid growth has raised concerns about energy shortages due to its high …

Green finance: The catalyst for artificial intelligence and energy efficiency in Chinese urban sustainable development

M Zeng, W Zhang - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
For a prolonged period, Chinese cities have been develo** through high-investment and
low-efficiency urbanization, posing a serious threat to urban sustainable development. In …

The path toward urban carbon neutrality: How does the low-carbon city pilot policy stimulate low-carbon technology?

Z Wang, E Chu - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
To reduce carbon emissions, it is important to promote the development of low-carbon
technology in urban areas. This study is the first to examine the impact of policies on the …

Forecasting the Green Behaviour Level of Chinese Enterprises: A Conjoined Application of the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model and Multi …

L Wang, L Chen, S **, C Li - Technology in Society, 2025 - Elsevier
Enterprises' green behaviour level (EGBL) is an important reflection of a country's green
development progress. Gaining foresight into the future trends of EGBL can provide a …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding China's new-type industrialization: Insights from an XGBoost-SHAP analysis

Y Lai, G Wan, X Qin - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2024 - Elsevier
Integrating machine learning and explainable artificial intelligence offers superior
interpretability for indicator selection compared with traditional evaluation models. This study …

[HTML][HTML] Industry Heterogeneity and the Economic Consequences of Corporate ESG Performance for Good or Bad: A Firm Value Perspective

Y Chen, Z Zhang - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
An investigation into the relationship between ESG performance and firm value is vital for
formulating corporate sustainability strategies. This paper begins by providing a …

How does the construction of new generation of national AI innovative development pilot zones drive enterprise ESG development? Empirical evidence from China

Y Huang, S Liu, J Gan, B Liu, Y Wu - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
In the context of the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the
growing global attention to the ESG performance of enterprises, this study takes the …

Corporate SDG performance and investor trading behavior

X Yang, ZHJ Chen, Y Feng, X Gao, KG Koedijk - Finance Research Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper employs a novel sustainability rating from Robeco to examine the response of
investors to firms' SDG performance. We explore the underlying mechanism from the …

Study on the effect of carbon trading on the carbon emission intensity of enterprises—a mechanism test based on ESG performance

A Han, T Yu, Y Ke, C Liu, Y Liu - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Facing the double constraints of the “double carbon” target and high-quality economic
development, carbon trading policy is an important tool for realizing the emission reduction …

Does environmental regulation affect corporate environmental awareness? A quasi-natural experiment based on low-carbon city pilot policy

X Gao, X Lai, X Tang, Y Li - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
The low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy, as an important measure for China to achieve its"
dual carbon" goals, has attracted widespread attention regarding its implementation effects …