Different types of environmental concerns and heterogeneous influence on green total factor productivity: Evidence from Chinese provincial data

Y Long, L Liu, B Yang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental issues have been the focus of attention worldwide, and achieving green
development is crucial for solving such issues. This study uses the panel data of 30 Chinese …

Efficiency snakes and energy ladders: A (meta-) frontier demand analysis of electricity consumption efficiency in Chinese households

DC Broadstock, J Li, D Zhang - Energy Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Policy makers presently lack access to quantified estimates–and hence an explicit
understanding–of energy consumption efficiency within households, creating a potential gap …

Does carbon emission trading improve low-carbon technical efficiency? Evidence from China

W Cai, P Ye - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2022 - Elsevier
With the growing severe challenges of the climate change, improving low-carbon technical
efficiency (LTE) is considered as the most important way to facilitate the low-carbon …

Environmental technical efficiency, technology gap and shadow price of coal-fuelled power plants in China: A parametric meta-frontier analysis

L Du, A Hanley, N Zhang - Resource and Energy Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a new meta-frontier estimation method to investigate the
environmental technical efficiency and carbon abatement cost of power plants in China …

Have Chinese cities achieved the win–win between environmental protection and economic development? From the perspective of environmental efficiency

Q Wang, Z Zhao, N Shen, T Liu - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
The development of a regional or national economy is always accompanied by a variety of
environmental problems. Using meta-frontier and data envelopment analysis (DEA), this …

A comparative study of dynamic changes in CO2 emission performance of fossil fuel power plants in China and Korea

N Zhang, Y Choi - Energy Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper aims to conduct a comparative study of the changes in CO 2 emission
performance of state-owned fossil fuel power plants between China and Korea. For this …

Carbon emissions performance in logistics at the city level

J Yang, L Tang, Z Mi, S Liu, L Li, J Zheng - Journal of cleaner production, 2019 - Elsevier
The importance of good performance in the logistics industry contributing towards a low-
carbon economy is widely recognised. However, there are few studies on carbon emissions …

The role of energy consumption in global carbon intensity change: A meta-frontier-based production-theoretical decomposition analysis

X Liu, Y Hang, Q Wang, CR Chiu, D Zhou - Energy Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy consumption is an essential component of economic development, the main source
of carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore an important factor in shaping global carbon …

Air emissions perspective on energy efficiency: An empirical analysis of China's coastal areas

Q Qin, X Li, L Li, W Zhen, YM Wei - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Improving energy efficiency has been recognized as the most effective way to reduce the
greenhouse effect and achieve sustainable development. From the perspective of air …

Energy efficiency and influencing factors analysis on Beijing industrial sectors

JM Wang, YF Shi, J Zhang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
To shed unneeded functions in Beijing, the improvement of energy efficiency is necessary in
the process of the collaborative development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. Energy efficiency of …