Do geopolitical risks facilitate the global energy transition? Evidence from 39 countries in the world

S Wang, J Wang, W Wang - Resources Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Geopolitical risks exert a profoundly detrimental impact on global economy, investment and
resource security. Do geopolitical risks affect the worldwide energy transition remains open …

Spatial-temporal pattern evolution and driving factors of China's energy efficiency under low-carbon economy

Y Zhang, W Wang, L Liang, D Wang, X Cui… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Improving energy efficiency and building a low-carbon economy are the important ways to
resolve the current contradiction between economic growth and the environment in China. In …

Co-benefits of energy efficiency improvement and air pollution abatement in the Chinese iron and steel industry

S Zhang, E Worrell, W Crijns-Graus, F Wagner… - Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
In 2010, China was responsible for 45% of global steel production, while consuming 15.8 EJ
of final energy and emitting 1344 Mt CO 2eq, 8.4 Mt of PM (particulate matter) emissions …

Carbon emissions dynamics, efficiency gains, and technological innovation in China's industrial sectors

N Zhang, B Wang, Z Liu - Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
In China, industrial sectors contribute carbon emissions at a larger scale and more rapidly
growing pace than other end-use sectors. This paper thus aims to investigate the dynamic …

Do undesirable output and environmental regulation matter in energy efficiency analysis? Evidence from Indian cement industry

SK Mandal - Energy policy, 2010 - Elsevier
Energy use in the production of desirable output often results in the generation of
undesirable emission with detrimental impact on the environment, and whose disposal is …

Regional differences on CO2 emission efficiency in metallurgical industry of China

B Lin, M Xu - Energy policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis of CO 2 emission has attracted more attention due to increasing
environmental awareness. As a pillar of the national economy, the CO 2 emissions of the …

Impact of factor price distortions on energy efficiency: Evidence from provincial-level panel data in China

X Ouyang, X Wei, C Sun, G Du - Energy Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
The marketization of energy price is not only an important part of factor pricing reforms but
also decisive for energy efficiency improvement. Thus, this study aims to measure factor …

The evaluation of transportation energy efficiency: An application of three-stage virtual frontier DEA

Q Cui, Y Li - Transportation Research Part D: Transport and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, transportation energy efficiency is newly defined and its inputs and outputs are
obtained through literature review. Labor input, capital input and energy input are selected …

Measurement and decomposition of energy-saving and emissions reduction performance in Chinese cities

Q Wang, B Su, J Sun, P Zhou, D Zhou - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
Taking into account the heterogeneity of production technologies across Chinese cities, we
adopted a meta-frontier function and a non-radial directional distance function to construct …

Optimizing China's energy consumption structure under energy and carbon constraints

J Sun, G Li, Z Wang - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2018 - Elsevier
As the world's main energy consumer, China faces an increasingly prominent conflict
between its growing energy consumption and its unreasonable energy consumption …