Boqiang Lin

Xiamen University | XMU · China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy

As an advanced social development capital, transportation plays a vital role in promoting regional development. Concurrently, the business activities of enterprises intimately relate to these transportation services. Utilizing road construction to improve the energy efficiency of enterprises, therefore, becomes a critical way to promote the transfo...

The economic gap between urban and rural areas is increasingly being bridged by off-farm activities, with renewable energy playing a crucial role in this shift. Over the years, solar power systems have enabled numerous off-grid households to diversify into non-farming pursuits. This study delves into how adopting solar power systems influences farm...

Scientific and technological innovation is crucial for energy conservation and emissions reduction. This article estimates the impact of technological innovation on the energy and environmental performance of China's mining industry. Most previous research on technological innovation has focused on the industry as a whole part, while the literature...

India is often referred to as the next development superpower, and generally, becoming a large-scale industrialization center is seen as an achievable goal for the country. This article investigates the output elasticity, substitution elasticity, and technological advancement between the various factors (i.e., labor, capital, and energy use) in the...

In this study, the authors projected the impacts of clean energy investment on environmental degradation by applying a novel and dynamic Autoregressive Distributed Lag (DARDL) model for Pakistan from 1990 to 2022. Most researchers have used ecological footprint or CO2 emissions indicators to look at how clean energy investment affects environmental...

The wave of Industry 4.0 and carbon neutrality is propelling the global manufacturing towards intelligent and sustainable transformation. While existing research fails to adequately evaluate the effects of industrial robots (IR) on firm energy intensity from a microscopic perspective, this gap obstructs our understanding of green intelligent manufa...

The average electricity consumption per capita in China still has significant room for growth. Under the current rigid residential electricity pricing, it is very important to study how factors other than price can promote electricity conservation among residents. This paper uses micro-survey data of 2018 and 2020 to analyze energy efficiency and t...

This study aims to fill a crucial gap in current research by examining the multifaceted relationships between energy depletion, technical cooperation grants, industrialization, and environmental degradation. By focusing on Pakistan, a country emblematic of many developing nations facing rapid industrialization and resource constraints, this researc...

Global shocks potentially distort economy's achieved equilibria. Considering the 2020 global crude oil price shock and the 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic, this study proposes an energy and environment integrated general equilibrium model to analyze the economic, energy, and environmental effects of these global shocks on Nigeria, a developing, o...

Concerted effort to reduce ecological damages requires that the role of enterprises should be extended to incorporate environmental issues into their core business objectives. Despite huge developments in sustainable entrepreneurship research, outcomes of sustainable entrepreneurship uptake remain largely unclear. Drawing on data of Chinese firms,...

Pakistan is moving toward the large-scale use of coal. Coal plays a dominant role in Pakistan’s energy mix and is estimated to reach 30% by 2030. The purpose of this study is to analyze coal imports and indigenous reserves in relation to CO 2 emissions. In particular, this study constructs the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) method to see the...

Energy poverty is a crucial challenge to global sustainable development. Energy efficiency is considered an essential means to alleviate energy poverty, but there is still insufficient quantitative evidence on its poverty reduction effect. This paper investigates the impact of energy efficiency on energy poverty and examines the offsetting effect o...

Combating climate change and reducing carbon dioxide emissions are serious challenges shared by countries around the world. In the current era, digitalization has a significant impact on CO2 emissions. However, prior studies have not assessed the synergy between digitalization and industrialization on carbon emission performance. The principal comp...

Climate change is causing profound changes in energy and power systems around the world. Although many papers have confirmed the impact of environmental weather on electricity demand, the complex nexus of regional environmental temperature and electricity demand instability remains incomplete, especially neglecting the understanding from the perspe...

Existing studies mostly discussed the impact of transportation infrastructure on the economy and society. However, the environmental performance of digital infrastructure has been discussed less. This study explores the effect of digital infrastructure construction on green economic transformation based on theoretical analysis. Using the Broadband...

This paper constructs a comprehensive electricity market model in the context of China, highlighting the deviation caused by neglecting start-up costs from an engineering perspective. The model allows for the abandonment of excess wind and solar power generation, contributing to the achievement of research objectives in scenarios with a high propor...

This study addresses a crucial gap in the existing literature by exploring the intricate relationship between gender, disability, and energy poverty. While prior research has shown that females and persons with disabilities are more vulnerable to energy poverty, our study adopts an intersectionality framework to investigate how these identities int...

In effective policy formulation, an understanding of the spatial evolution of global climate change loss risk and its determinants is necessary. Thus, this paper attempts to detect the club convergence characteristics of global climate change loss risk and the social and economic determinants leading to club convergence. The Global Climate Risk Ind...

Climate change poses economic, social, and environmental challenges to humanity. Through the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement (PA), World leaders are obliged to identify climate solutions. In 2015, within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Challenge (UNFCCC), 197 countries negotiated the PA on climate change mitigation and adaptat...

The growing threats of climate change are posing severe economic and social development challenges to African economies. As a result, emission reduction path that stabilizes carbon concentrations while minimizing the risk of damage from rising climate threats has become critical. The key is to improve carbon productivity. In this regard, the study...

Finding the balance between economy and low emission of an integrated energy system (IES) has become one of the current research hotspots. This article introduces the carbon tax and carbon capture (storage) technology within the framework of the IES model. The IES comprises of components such as combined heat and power units equipped with carbon ca...

As one of the important pillars of China's industrial sector, the mining industry is critical to China's modernization and energy security. Based on China's provincial panel data, this paper collects the information on government's environmental management and estimates the impact of environmental regulation on China's mining industry's energy and...

Exploring the relationship between natural gas resource utilization, environmental policy, and green economic growth will help developing countries enact practical environmental and resources policy. China declared a “war on pollution” in 2014 in response to the worsening environmental pollution (called the “Atmosphere Ten Articles (ATA)” policy)....

China promised to achieve carbon neutrality in 2060. However, electricity prices are still regulated, which may affect the effect of carbon neutrality, especially in China, because 70% of China’s electricity comes from thermal power generation. In this paper, a dynamic recursive computable general equilibrium model (CEEEA/CGE model) is applied to s...

Concerns about the detrimental impacts of energy poverty are currently on top global agendas and have pushed academia and policymakers into understanding its causes. However, studies on these causes usually account for factors that contemporaneously explain energy poverty as they fail to consider past experiences. In resolving this issue, this stud...

This paper presents a time-of-use (TOU) pricing model of the electricity market that can capture the interaction between power plants, generation ramping, storage devices, electric vehicle loading, and electricity prices. Even though the model is calibrated to Chinese Fujian electricity market, it can be used to predict efficient equilibrium tariff...

While several studies evaluate the impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic on different markets, it is worth the while to also examine its contagion (fractal) effect on the top (based on their market capitalization) twenty cryptocurrency markets. These cryptocurrency markets' information (return and volatility) were sampled for both the ex-ante a...

With the acceleration of industrialization and rapid demand growth, carbon emissions increased dramatically in China's food industry during the past two decades. However, the uncertainty of the emission level of China's food industry alongside the global supply chain restricts China from implementing more sustainable food policies. Thus, this paper...

With the implementation of carbon neutrality strategies in China, both carbon emissions reduction and carbon sequestration should be considered. In order to exert the carbon neutrality potential of forest carbon sinks, it is necessary to calculate the cost of them in China. Based on the basic principles of land use opportunity cost and net present...

Renewable and clean energies foster carbon abatement. This makes the prospects of emission mitigation through Biofuels vital in Africa’s energy transitioning agenda. As such, the role of Biofuel energies in abating Africa’s emissions is worthy of investigation. This study goes a step further, from existing studies, to analyse the carbon abatement p...

As the energy-intensive and productive sector, agriculture enriched social prosperity, fed people, and enriched huge poverty worldwide. Development mechanisms, energy consumption and energy efficiency in the agriculture sector have become equally necessary in the services and industrial sectors. The study's main objective is to analyze the agricult...

The energy rebound effect may weaken the impact of energy efficiency improvement on energy consumption. Therefore, the rebound effect is an important consideration in energy and environmental policies. This study takes the iron and steel industry as the research object, which is a large energy consumption sector in China, and the improved technique...

Industrial transformation is the key to urban transformation. Despite extensive studies on the topic of resource curse, limited studies have analyzed the impact of resource dependence on industrial transformation, especially taking into account the role of institutional quality. This paper attempts to fill such research gap. Based on a panel datase...

The role of information in energy and environmental policies is receiving extensive attention. This paper examines the impact of pollution information on residents’ life satisfaction and its channels in China. A difference-in-difference (DID) approach is used to match China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) data with information disclosure data to find t...

Existing research does not provide enough knowledge support for Chinese investors to adjust their investment portfolio to integrate green bonds. Given this background, this paper identifies how green bonds transmit information with other assets from three aspects return, volatility, and tail risks. We apply the time-frequency generalized spillover...

Carbon emission is inevitable, and changes with energy consumption and economic development, presents policy options toward sustainable development path. Currently, there is little assurance from policymakers in committing to climate change pledges: taking the Middle-East and North African (MENA) region as a specific case with using 2019 as a cut-o...

Upstream petroleum externality determinations may provide policymakers with appropriate natural resource management options and significantly contribute to sustainable development in petroleum-producing countries. This study investigates the above topic with novelty in contributing new knowledge and updating the existing literature gap in the upstr...

India is the world's third-biggest carbon-emitter after China and the United States. Most of the mixed energy has been dominated by oil, coal, electricity, and gas. This study has attempted to investigate the output elasticities, the possibility of factors substitution, and technological progress between energy and non-energy factors. Ridge regress...

With the substantial increase in resource consumption in China, garbage recycling plays a vital role in reducing waste and protecting natural resources. This paper designed and conducted a random survey of four first-tier cities in China to identify the variables influencing residents' willingness to pay for garbage classification. Based on the ord...

The computable general equilibrium (CGE) model is a good instrument for counterfactual analysis. This kind of model is widely used in energy and environmental economics. However, the CGE models used in different studies vary greatly. As the construction of the model is a massive project, and some model settings may be wrong, it is easy to get unrea...

Investigating the energy consumption behavior of the elderly is of great significance in improving welfare and energy conservation in the context of aging. This paper uses the regression discontinuity design to investigate the effect of retirement on the electricity consumption of the elderly using data from China family panel studies (CFPS) over t...

There is a growing recognition that local electricity markets (LEMs) for distributed power resources are technically and economically feasible. However, the conditions under which these markets can create value for prosumers and consumers (P&C) and ensure overall welfare for society are insufficiently understood. To help address this literature gap...

Motivated by a lack of studies related to macro risk‐driven green bond markets, this paper detects the tail dependence of the USA and China green bond markets on three uncertainty indicators. We applied a novel cross‐quantilogram method to address this issue and utilised the quantile causality test for robustness, as well as to capture predictive c...

Energy poverty leads to several household consequences, including health condition deteriorations. As such, the association between energy poverty and health cannot be overemphasized. Due to these dampening health conditions, households engage in higher health expenses which could be catastrophic relative to the households’ income or expenditures....

An understanding of how storage technologies coordinate with other power resources to deliver value for electricity market participants in compliance with climate policy will be vital as policy makers seek to decarbonize electricity generation in a cost-effective way. This paper adopts a game-theoretic electricity market model to evaluate the inter...

Electricity consumption plays an imperative role in the rising economy and carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq) emissions in Pakistan. This study employs the decomposition and decoupling methods in driving factors of CO2es from electricity generation for the years 1990–2019. The study investigates the key driving factors in three ways: first, the stud...

Almost 87.8% use of fossil fuel in its mixed energy, with only 12.1% coming from electricity, which has taken submerge environmental risk from CO2 emissions (CO2Es). Like many countries, Pakistan has set ambitious goals for a feasible transition towards clean energy sources. In this study, a trans-log production function is adopted to investigate t...

Kenya is classified among the fastest developing economies in Sub Saharan Africa. To sustain this growth, energy is seen as key ‘enabler’ to oil its new long-term development blueprint, Vision 2030, with the goal of reaching a middle income country status and turning the nation into a newly industrialized economy. Yet, the recent energy generation...

This paper empirically explores the impact of oil price uncertainty on the strategic investment of China's renewable energy enterprises from the perspective of certain substitution relationships between renewable energy enterprises and traditional energy enterprises by using the systematic GMM method. In addition, we propose three specific influenc...

Renewable energy plays a crucial role in clean energy transformation and emission mitigation. It's, therefore, necessary to understand the trend and factors affecting renewable energy distribution and disparity across countries. This paper investigates the development pattern of renewable energy worldwide. It depicted a distributional picture of th...

China's solar photovoltaic industry has developed by leaps and bounds with the support of government funds and policies over the past decade. Some studies indicate that the supporting effect of government subsidies is not invariable. With the decline or even cancellation of photovoltaic subsidies, the difference in the influence of different subsid...

More than two-thirds of electricity in Africa is generated from fossil fuels which pose a significant threat to the continent's sustainable growth trajectory. Considering technology heterogeneity, this study employs Shephard CO2 distance function to estimate dynamic carbon efficiency, carbon efficiency under Meta production frontier (MECF) and Grou...

As the world’s largest energy consumer, China’s CO2 emissions have significantly risen, owing to its rapid economic growth. Hence, levying a carbon tax has become essential in accelerating China’s carbon neutralization process. This paper employs the two-stage translog cost function to calculate the price elasticity of the mining industry’s energy...

In response to the national air pollution, China implemented the Clean Air Action policy from 2013 to 2017. The vigorous implementation of the policy has ensured that the policy targets have been achieved, and the haze problem has been effectively controlled. To evaluate the policy effect of environmental regulation on labor demand, this paper cond...

Energy is the engine of China's rapid economic growth. Whereas, under the requirements of economic transition, energy productivity is in urgent need of improvement. To curb air pollutant emission, the Chinese government promulgated the Clean Air Action Plan in 2013, and the policy puts forward specific measures on energy utilization. How does energ...

Economic growth target management has been a typical feature of Chinese governments at all levels for a long time in the past decades. Based on a panel data of 188 Chinese cities, this paper examines the impact of pressure brought by economic growth target on energy efficiency improvement. The results suggest that economic growth pressure has hinde...

Energy efficiency shows tremendous potential for enhancing economic growth while also conquering the emissions of greenhouse gases. It is generally acknowledged that Pakistan's decarbonization has to be escorted by energy efficiency developments. This study analyzes key factors behind the energy consumption variations at the sectorial level, such a...

The paper innovatively divides technological progress's actual emission mitigation effect into technical emission mitigation effect, rebound effect, and substitution effect. Then, taking the power sector as an example, the paper applies a dynamic recursive multi-sector computable general equilibrium model to simulate technological progress and expl...

Analyzing the Nigerian oil and gas industry network system from May 5th, 2014 to January 23rd, 2020, this paper presents empirical evidence of the connectedness in a network of the six leading oil and gas companies in Nigeria with the WTI crude oil market. The results show that Forte oil is a safe-haven for the Nigerian oil & gas investment market....

Agricultural greenhouse gas emissions (methane and nitrous oxide) contribute substantially to global warming. This article explores and develops roadmaps towards mitigating these emissions in developing economies. Nonetheless, mitigating the impacts of global warming on humanity entails curtailing the greenhouse emissions which is very challenging...

Environmental regulation is a critical instrument for achieving sustainable economic and social development in the context of carbon neutrality. The iron and steel industry is highly polluting and energy-consuming, posing a significant threat to China's environmental sustainability. Based on the panel of Chinese provincial-level data from 2000 to 2...

This paper finds that informed residents are more willing to support renewable energy development. Respondents with a higher level of participation in renewable energy planning, satisfaction with the implementation of renewable energy policies, as well as recognition of the high cost of renewable energy are more willing to use renewable energy. The...

Under the background of carbon neutrality, the carbon sequestration of forest ecosystems is an important way to mitigate climate change. Forest could not only protect the environment but also an important industry for economic development. As an international climate policy that first recognized the role of forest carbon sinks on climate change, th...