Impacts of environmental regulations on green economic growth in China: New guidelines regarding renewable energy and energy efficiency

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作者
Zhao, Xin [1 ]
Mahendru, Mandeep [2 ]
Ma, Xiaowei [3 ]
Rao, Amar
Shang, Yuping [3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Anhui Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Stat & Appl Math, Bengbu 233030, Peoples R China
[2] ICFAI Business Sch, Gurgaon, India
[3] Fujian Normal Univ, Sch Econ, Fuzhou 350117, Peoples R China
[4] Shoolini Univ, Bajhol 173229, Himachal Prades, India
[5] Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Urban & Reg Sci, Shanghai 200433, Shanghai, Peoples R China
[6] Hefei Univ Technol, Sch Econ, Hefei 230009, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家社会科学基金; 中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Environmental regulation; Green economic growth; Energy efficiency; Renewable energy; Spatial econometric model; PRODUCTIVITY; EMISSIONS; POLLUTION; INDUSTRY; MODELS; POLICY;
D O I
10.1016/j.renene.2022.01.076
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
As the world's largest energy consuming country, it is important to study the mechanisms of improving renewable energy and energy efficiency to achieve green economic growth in China and globally. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations on green economic growth and renewable energy development in China, respectively. First, this study measures the level of green economic growth in Chinese cities by the Metafrontier-Global-SBM super-efficient data envelopment analysis (DEA) model from the perspective of energy efficiency. And the environmental regulation in-tensity was measured using an improved fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. Second, a spatial econometric model based on longitudinal data was constructed to examine the non-linear effects of environmental regulations on green economic growth and its spatial spillover and feedback effects. The results indicated a U-shaped non-linear effect of energy efficiency-related environmental regulation on green economic growth as well as a spatial spillover effect and spatial feedback effect. Finally, the impact of environmental regulation on renewable energy development was investigated. The results show that renewable energy development, an important component of green economic growth, is equally dependent on the implementation of environmental regulation policies and that environmental regu-lation makes a significant contribution to renewable energy development. The findings of this paper provide a basis for the realization of green economic growth and the formulation of renewable energy policies in China. (c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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