Huaping Sun

Huaping Sun
University of Science and Technology Beijing | USTB

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Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains a significant challenge for many countries, particularly in the face of increasing environmental pollution. Balancing social, economic, and environmental sustainability under these conditions is especially complex. This study explores the role of green finance in promoting sustainable infra...
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A green building (GB) is a design idea that integrates environmentally conscious technology and sustainable procedures throughout the building’s life cycle. However, because different green requirements and performances are integrated into the building design, the GB design procedure typically takes longer than conventional structures. Machine lear...
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Green building (GB) techniques are essential for reducing energy waste in the construction sector, which accounts for almost 40% of global energy consumption. Despite their importance, challenges such as occupant behavior and energy management gaps often result in GBs consuming up to 2.5 times more energy than intended. To address this, Building Au...
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Sustainable tourism development (STD) has been much touted in academia and policy circles; however, developing economies are still struggling to adopt STD. This phenomenon motivated us to trace the barriers hindering STD and their interrelationships in the context of developing economies. This study identified barriers through a systematic literatu...
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The construction industry consumes significant resources, emits considerable pollutants, and generates substantial waste. Green, Lean, Six Sigma (GLS) is an emerging paradigm to control waste, carbon footprint, resource conservation, non-value-added activities, and cost. However, limited focus has been given to the risks involved in GLS constructio...
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This study explores the dynamic relationship between industrial pollution and urban economic development in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration based on the EKC hypothesis. In this paper, we use a panel dataset covering 27 cities in the Yangtze River Delta from 2006 to 2019 for the analysis, group the samples by a panel threshold model, and...
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Nations are confronted with a significant challenge in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Achieving the SDGs pertaining to social sustainability, economic sustainability, and environmental sustainability poses the greatest challenge due to various interconnected factors. The present study investigates the influence of green finance...
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The environmental threats from climate change and global warming have become more consistent. As a result, several policy solutions, including structural transformation and sustainable resource consumption, have been discussed to ensure compliance with the United Nations sustainable development goals. To extend policy discussion , we select environ...
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Economic integration and infrastructure connectivity among countries has garnered significant interest due to its immense scale and potential political and economic impact. Special economic zones (SEZ), energy projects, and sustainable infrastructure are influential catalysts that have the potential to boost economic stability and promote growth th...
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The demand for resources and energy increases as the global population grows, leading to increased ecological and carbon footprints. This study aims to contribute to the global sustainability agenda by assessing the impact of green energy projects, green energy finance, and green governance on reducing ecological and carbon footprints in G7 countri...
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The increasing trend in sustainable economic growth over the last few decades has elevated the energy demand, technological innovation, and access to minerals resources are contributing well to economic development. This article investigates the nexus among minerals resource complexity, energy consumption, technology, and economic growth by employi...
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As a result of air pollution and accelerated climate change, entrepreneurship is gradually becoming a deciding factor in the global conversation about saving the planet with renewable energy sources. To sustain the economy and entrepreneurial culture for future generations, researchers and entrepreneurs seek environmentally friendly methods for sup...
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The outburst of the coronavirus into the global arena, first as a respiratory disease and later as a worldwide pandemic and health emergency, pushed the world economic order into complete turmoil and aftermath, posing severe challenges to the financial stability of developing countries like Pakistan. The temporary suspension of economic activities...
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Challenges in adopting renewable energy have become significant roadblocks to the country's sustainable progress. There is a shortage of studies examining how adopting biogas energy plants affects entrepreneurship in Pakistan's off-grid areas. This study aims to address this gap in the literature by investigating bioenergy as an entrepreneurial opp...
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Corporate social responsibility information disclosure integrates environmental and social practices to achieve sustainable development. Some studies have pointed out that promoting green technology innovation is essential for energy-intensive firms. Therefore, exploring the relationship between energy-intensive environmental information disclosure...
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Energy poverty has gained considerable attention worldwide, adversely affecting income, education, health, and the environment. However, no study has examined the linkages among these dimensions and especially during COVID-19 in the Pakistani perspective. To bridge this research gap, we scrutinized the relationship among these variables to measure...
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Promoting energy-intensive enterprises’ green innovation is essential for transitioning to a low-carbon economy. This study explores the promoting factors and influencing mechanisms that drive energy-intensive enterprises’ green innovation performance from the perspective of environmental regulation and the theory of planned behavior. A questionnai...
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Facing the fluctuations of the price dynamic of carbon asset, enterprises with schedule of purchasing seek proper timing of establishing their long position of carbon emission right. However, it is not simply a timing optimization of buying financial asset, carbon asset management is always in line with the prediction of its consumption, inventory...
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Energy is essential to a recent way of life that needs to be addressed in economic and environmentally supportable improvement negotiations. The economic output of solar energy development has become the primary concern, particularly in emerging nations like Pakistan. The present research estimates a techno-economic analysis and sustainable green r...
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The increasing significance of green supply chain management in developing countries’ manufacturing sector is primarily driven by the deteriorating environment, signified by decreasing raw material resources, a surplus of waste sites, and rising pollution levels. Green supply chain management can provide competitiveness while boosting a company’s e...
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As the importance of critical minerals in facilitating the energy transition has grown, the present discussion has switched to examining 18 leading mineral resource-endowed countries for their economic and governance performance from 2002 to 2019 by employing a panel random effect model. The findings demonstrate the validity of the Pareto principle...
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Sustainable development objectives heavily promote the advancement of cleaner production technologies to reduce emissions and conserve the average world temperature. For the years 1990–2020, the USA, China, Japan, Russia, Germany, and Australia are studied by using the panel fully modified ordinary least square (FMOLS). The results show that clean...
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China proposed a new-type urbanization (NTU) strategy in 2012 to solve ecological and environmental problems caused by the traditional rapid and rough urbanization development model. Focusing on the policy’s important goal of building green and smart cities, it is crucial to explore whether the pilot of NTU promotes green innovation at the enterpri...
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The shortage of traditional fossil energy resources, together with the pressure of environmental pollution, has stimulated the growing trade of solar energy products in China. The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of voluntary environmental regulation on China's solar energy industry trade flows. To this aim, the paper selects panel...
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Renewable energy has been seen as a viable solution to the problems of environmental degradation and the energy crisis. This study examines the long – and short–run linkages between economic globalization, foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth, and renewable electricity consumption in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries. The...
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China’s economy began as one of high-speed development and has since advanced into a period of high-quality enhancement as driven by the services trade. Data elements are important for promoting services trade. In this paper, we present a literature review of the digital services trade and its development, as well as the main mechanisms of the data...
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The gap in demand and supply of energy across Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries has increased energy insecurity in the region. Therefore, power outages have become pervasive, causing unemployment and a decline in production output. Among the several energy-saving factors identified in the literature across developing economies, technological spil...
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There has been concern that economic globalization will increase energy consumption and reduce energy efficiency. A slew of studies investigating this assertion have used trade, foreign investment, or both as indicators of economic globalization, with mixed findings. A number of concerns challenge the empirical literature including measurement issu...
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Based on employing the global super efficiency epsilon-based measure (GSE-EBM) model to evaluation the green innovation efficiency (GIE) of 285 prefecture-level or above cities in China during the period 2004–2018, this paper combines the approaches of kernel density estimation, cold hot spot analysis and standard deviation ellipse to intuitively d...
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COVID-19 is a viral disease also comprehended as a coronavirus pandemic that has compelled the world to revisit business strategies to encounter COVID-19 challenges. Over the last decade, ample research has been accomplished on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and circular economy. Nevertheless, a key research gap requires to be filled that ho...
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This research proposes an internal organizational framework that explains why firms implement corporate social responsibility (CSR). Based on the perspective of managers in the mining sector of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), wellbeing of employees and cost reduction were identified as internal driving factors of CSR. This study was carried...
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The urgency to overcome climate change under COP 26 and 27 has allowed closer attention towards environmental sustainability. As a result, businesses are under pressure from stakeholders to provide more information about greenhouse gas emissions and ecological footprints. The current study performs a systematic review of firm-level carbon disclosur...
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Carbon emissions associated with international trade are significant. The emergence of complex global value chains (GVCs) in recent decades, in which a country can operate as both a consumer and producer simultaneously, has led to a further rise in emissions. The complexity of these GVCs makes it increasingly difficult to determine what country is...
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Promoting the development of financial instruments can influence carbon emission reduction in the context of the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. There are currently no theoretical mechanisms to explain whether and how digital inclusive finance, as a new type of financial service, influences residential consumption-based embodied carbon...
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Carbon regulation and the mechanism of carbon emission right motivate firms with high carbon consumption and emission to transition to a production and operation model with higher carbon usage. Green technology innovation is the usual way out, with carbon performance metrics serving as guideposts along the route. The intersection of the two topics...
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This study examined how green energy finance and ecological development affect the eco-friendly environments of the United States, China, and France using data from the panel from 2000 to 2020. The findings show that the influence of green energy finance and ecological development on carbon dioxide (CO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nitrous oxide (NO...
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Owing to the increased greenhouse gas emissions and threat of environmental pollution, scholars have drawn attention to the issue of energy efficiency in recent decades. One of the main practical policies related to energy efficiency is deploying green tax and green financing tools. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts of issued...
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Whether the low-carbon city construction can coordinate urban economy and environment has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In this study, the impact of low-carbon city pilot (LCCP) policy on urban green total-factor productivity is systematically examined theoretically and empirically. Specifically, the biennial Malmquist-Luenberger...
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Based on the theory of fiscal decentralization and sustainable development, and the mechanism analysis about fiscal decentralization and government environmental preference to promote industrial green transformation, using China’s provincial panel data from 2006 to 2019, this paper empirically tests the effect of fiscal decentralization and governm...
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This study evaluates the economic integration of wind energy in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) between 2010 and 2020. Due to the theoretical and economic potential of the subregions, wind energy is the only energy source that can cost-effectively meet the energy needs of the sub-regions. For this reason, the study uses data...
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Carbon emissions have become a serious environmental problem worldwide, with the greenhouse effect and global temperature increase being the main areas of concern. Financial inclusion is a means to increase the welfare of citizens and promote sustainable development. Development of financial inclusion may have a big impact on carbon emissions. This...
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Climate change policy has several potential risks. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of green technology development, green energy consumption, energy efficiency, foreign direct investment, economic growth, and trade (imports and exports) on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in South Asia from 1981 to 2018. We employed Breusch Pag...
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Carbon emission reduction is a systematic project requiring support from policy, capital, and technology in its promotion, which presents a greater need for green finance. Frontier research focuses on the impact of green finance on local CO2 emissions, but generally ignores its ripple impacts on carbon emission reduction in adjacent areas. Combinin...
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Renewable energy technology innovation (RETI) is a crucial way to improve energy poverty and combat climate change. However, few studies have examined the impact of RETI on industrial green transformation and upgrading (IGTU) from the perspective of spatial spillover and its regional boundary. Based on the theory of green growth and sustainable dev...
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In this study, carbon emissions from agricultural energy consumption (CEAEC) are fully analyzed using data from the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YEB) between 2000 and 2017. First, generalized LMDI is adopted to decompose the drivers of CEAEC into five components. Then, the decoupling indicator and the decoupling effort indicator are constructed to...
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Achieving high-quality economic development is a crucial feature of China’s new development stage. As an environmental regulation tool by implementing a differentiated credit policy, green credit is an inevitable choice to achieve high-quality economic development. In this paper, ecological welfare performance is used to measure the level of high-q...
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Due to limited resources and meager profits, collectors have insufficient motivation to fulfill their responsibilities, resulting in severe secondary pollution in the recycling process. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on the interests of collectors to motivate them to fulfill their solid waste management (SWM) responsibilities better. This pape...
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Environmental information disclosure (EID) is an important embodiment of corporate social responsibility. With the awakening of public awareness of environmental protection and the increasing pressure of environmental preservation, enterprises tend to strategically manipulate environmental information for the pursuit of profit, which will consequen...
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Mineral resources can contribute to economic, energy, and climate goals by expanding critical minerals used in advanced technology. However, mineral complexity influences the sustainability of achieving these goals. In this study, we investigate the mineral complexity and fossil fuel impact on economic growth, examining 21 emerging Asian economies...
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Credit is an important means to promote economic development, while green credit is conducive to the sustainable development of industry. This paper aims to build a multiple linear regression model and a dynamic panel data GMM estimation model to analyze the important factors that affect the optimization of the industrial structure. We then use an...
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The Industrial Revolution began when machines powered by new energy sources replaced humans, and it has since brought about Climate Change, which is now the world's most challenging concern. This article's primary purpose is to investigate the impacts of coal and gas consumption on environmental quality in six Asian countries: China, India, Russia,...
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There is global consensus that an increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, is driving climate change. To deal with this issue, governments all around the world have committed to controlling greenhouse gas emissions. For developing economies like sub–Saharan Africa (SSA), studies have suggested a...
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Officially launched in 2008, China’s low-carbon city pilot project is aimed at creating green and low-carbon cities by restricting individual consumption and enterprise production behaviors as a means of controlling greenhouse gas emissions. Among other indicators, the impact of the pilot low-carbon initiative may be evaluated based on whether it i...
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Interconnection is the priority direction of the Belt and Road initiative, which can provide substantial assistance to win-win cooperation. This study establishes a new indicator system from the five dimensions of policy, infrastructure, trade, finance, and people-to-people, evaluates the connect index of 63 Belt and Road countries from 2013 to 202...
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Accurate implementation of eco-innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to mitigate climate change and related environmental turmoil emanating from economic activities is always ignored. The study seeks to investigate the role of eco-innovation in enhancing environmental sustainability; the effect of eco-innovation on carbon dioxide (CO[Formula: see...
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This study focuses on determining the relationship between carbon emissions, financial development, population, green technology innovation, energy Consumption, and employment rate from 1980 to 2019 in China. The study applies the unit root test, bootstrapped ARDL cointegration, and the Granger causality to examine the data properties and associati...
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This study systematically explored the effect of smart city policy (SCP) on urban green total-factor productivity (GTFP) in China. We first measured the urban GTFP using the Luenberger productivity indicator derived from the directional distance function, and further investigated the impact of SCP on urban GTFP using the difference-in-differences (...
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Adopting green technology and renewable energy is imperative to address climate challenges and realize sustainable development goals. Therefore, this study examines the impact of green innovation and energy consumption on carbon emissions in China from Q1-1990 to Q4-2018. Due to several technological and economic shifts in recent eras, Chinese macr...
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Standardization in energy-saving and emission-reduction measures has become increasingly important. The impact of standardization on carbon-emission efficiency in China was explored by using panel data from 2002 to 2017. The results showed that standardization significantly improved China’s carbon-emission efficiency, which remained robust after a...
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Carbon emission allowances are issued to limit the carbon emission by enterprises, but some unforeseen variables may cause their demand unpredictable. Together with the high volatility of carbon price dynamic, management of carbon asset is of great significance and difficulty for those enterprises with heavy carbon consumption. To cope with the dem...
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China has incorporated green technology innovation into its national development strategy based on its national conditions and development needs. The emission permits system is a typical environmental regulation, and one of the driving forces of green technology innovation. Research into the pollution discharge permits system is a key for improving...