Improving the ecological environmental performance to achieve carbon neutrality: The application of DPSIR-Improved matter-element extension cloud model

Abstract

Ecological environmental issues are global focus problems. Achieving carbon neutrality is a fundamental measure to protect the ecological environment. Government environmental governance plays a key role in the process of moving towards a carbon neutral vision since the externality of the environment. Therefore, it is of great significance for achieving the goal of carbon neutrality to evaluate the governmental ecological environment performance and propose improved suggestions based on the evaluation results. However, most existing evaluation methods have the disadvantages that it is difficult to avoid information distortion and loss during the evaluation process. To overcome these problems, an evaluation model based on a DPSIR-improved matter-element extension cloud model is proposed in this study, which combines the Drivers-Pressures-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) model, the entropy weight method, the cloud model, matter element extension theory, and the cloud entropy optimization algorithm. The ecological environmental performance of China in 2019 was evaluated based on the proposed model, exampling as Jiangsu province. The results showed that the cloud digital eigenvalues of ecological environmental performance was (2.1852, 0.2956, 0.1), indicating that the ecological environmental performance was good level. However, the ambient air quality needed to be improved. To achieve carbon neutrality, suggestions including strengthening propagating, increasing investment, optimizing the industrial structure, and building a modern environmental governance system are proposed.