将发达国家和新兴国家的经济发展与环境足迹进行比较,以提高低碳竞争力
Shanfei Zhang1, Guanghua Xu1, Ying Shu2,3
1School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China.
Heliyon
|August 6, 2024
概括
经济增长可以减少生态足迹,特别是增加私营部门信贷. 尽管环境有所改善,但能源消耗和GDP增长等因素仍在提高全球生活质量.
科学领域:
- 环境经济学环境经济学
- 生态足迹分析
- 可持续发展 可持续发展 可持续发展
背景情况:
- 人们越来越担心经济扩张对生态的影响.
- 需要了解金融发展与环境质量之间的相互作用.
- 环境绩效和经济活动的全球差异.
研究的目的:
- 调查2009-2019年131个国家的经济增长和生态足迹之间的关系.
- 评估金融部门发展,特别是私营部门国内信贷在环境成果中的作用.
- 研究能源消耗,外国直接投资 (FDI) 和人均GDP对生态足迹和生活质量的影响.
主要方法:
- 使用CS-ARDL (常见相关效应 - 自主回归分布式滞后) 方法来进行可靠的分析.
- 进行了对生态足迹数据的全面评估.
- 分析了包括私营部门国内信贷和外国直接投资在内的财务指标.
主要成果:
- 在减少生态足迹和增加私营部门国内信贷之间发现了负相关性.
- 减少银行特定的私营部门信贷与增加的金融部门私营部门信贷相关.
- 增加的能源消耗,外国直接投资和人均GDP与改善的全球生活质量有关.
- "污染避风港假说"在全球经济背景下得到了验证.
- 观察到人类人口对环境的不利影响显著减少.
结论:
- 全球经济的动态可能有助于环境保护工作.
- 金融部门的作用,特别是国内贷款,对于环境可持续性至关重要.
- 虽然整体环境影响减少了,但能源和外国直接投资等经济增长驱动因素提高了生活质量.
- 预计金融部门的区域差异,重点是环境保护.
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