Environmental Performance In China Research Articles

Integrating climate resilience with sports, exercise, and public health expenditures on sustainable environment: Evidence from coastal regions of China

The adoption of environmentally-friendly habits has become more crucial in the present period as a means to mitigate the rate of environmental degradation and its detrimental consequences. The augmentation of sports, exercise and physical activities has been associated with favourable health outcomes, in addition to the ability to mitigate carbon emissions resulting from vehicular transportation. Consequently, the objective of this study is to examine the influence of sports, exercise, and physical activities, along with public health expenditure, on the environmental performance of China's coastal regions throughout the period spanning from 2010 to 2019. The proposed study employs the Feasible Generalized Least Squares (F.G.L.S) and the Generalized Method of Moments (G.M.M) methodologies. Results show that participation in sports and other forms of physical activity significantly improves environmental performance in China's coastal areas. Likewise, a robust negative correlation exists between air pollution and healthcare expenses, hence favouring enhanced environmental outcomes. Nevertheless, it is important to acknowledge that economic expansion has a direct correlation with increased emissions, hence harming environmental performance. There exists compelling evidence indicating a significant impact on environmental quality resulting from the combined influence of heightened health expenditures and increased engagement in sports. This is demonstrated by the presence of an interaction term between health expenses and sports activities. The findings of this study suggest that there is a requirement to re-evaluate healthcare spending initiatives and sporting activities in order to effectively pursue carbon neutrality goals and improve environmental sustainability.

Going Green: Evidence from Product-Level Exports and Firms’ Environmental Performance in China

The environmental impact of exporting is a topic of significant concern to both scholars and policymakers. Analyzing how exporting influences firms’ environmental performance concerning the product level is vital for better understanding its implications. Drawing on the data obtained from Chinese industrial firms, this study employs the PSM-DID (Propensity Score Matching-Difference in differences) model to establish a causal relationship between exporting intermediate goods or final goods and firms’ emissions. The findings indicate that, on the one hand, exporting intermediate goods leads to a rise in firms’ production scale and total factor productivity, ultimately significantly increasing total pollution emissions and reducing pollution emission intensity. On the other hand, exporting final goods decreases total pollution emissions and emission intensity through the technical effect. In general, this study provides important micro-level evidence of how exports affect pollution emissions at the product level in China. This evidence is valuable for policymakers in shaping environmental regulations and export policies.

Role of environmental technologies and mitigation strategies in environmental performance: Case of Chinese economy

There has been an acceleration in global warming and other environmental issues due to industrialization, high population growth and other socio-economic factors in China. Besides, electricity volume generated through non-renewable resources directly contribute majorly in environmental pollution. The present study, therefore, aims to analyse economy-wide implications of factors such as electricity production from wind and solar sources, and mitigation strategies, such as carbon taxes and carbon finance, on environmental performance in China. The article uses population growth and industrialization as control variables to predict environmental performance. The study employs the dynamic auto-regressive distributed lag (DARDL) and nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) models to determine the nexus among the variables. The outcomes indicate that electricity production from wind and solar sources, carbon taxes, carbon finance, population growth, and industrialization have positive links to environmental performance and negative links to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in China. This implies that as an emerging renewable pioneer, China is advised to have less reliance on coal-based resources in electricity grid and expand its interest in renewable resource through the help of environmental technologies.

Assessing the impact of green human resource management practices on environmental performance in China: role of higher education.

The goal is for governments and executives to make environmental protection and the preservation of natural resources a priority. The current research examines how green human resource management practices have altered environmental performance in China's manufacturing sector. The survey used a trustworthy and valid questionnaire adapted from the literature to obtain the data. Random sampling method has been applied to collect data from manufacturers in China's Guangdong Province. Workers in China's industrial sector are the focus of this study, and each individual is treated as a separate unit of analysis. Three hundred of the 500 questionnaires were returned with sufficient data for statistical analysis. The predicted serial mediation model was analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) and the PROCESS model 4. The findings revealed that green HRM practices have a major impact on environmental performance and pro-environmental actions partially mediate the relationship between GHRM and environmental performance. In addition, higher education helped moderate the effect of green HRM on environmental outcomes. In terms of environmental performance, green recruitment, green selection, and green performance, green rewards via higher education has the greatest impact (p 0.01 significance level). Through an extension of the ability-motivation-opportunity theory, this study offers useful tips for policymakers, new and current organizations, and, in particular, manufacturing enterprises, on how to implement an incentive plan to promote environmentally friendly activities and product development, which in turn will increase customer loyalty.

Exploring the Multidimensional Perspective of Retail Investors’ Attention: The Mediating Influence of Corporate Governance and Information Disclosure on Corporate Environmental Performance in China

In the dynamically evolving global environment, enterprises grapple with an intricate web of social, environmental, and technological changes that demand heightened environmental efficiency and sustainability-oriented strategies. This study investigated the influence of retail investor attention on corporate environmental performance as well as the roles of corporate governance and information disclosure quality in Chinese publicly traded companies from 2008 to 2019. The empirical evidence reveals a positive association between retail investors’ attention and corporate environmental performance. The quality of corporate governance significantly affects environmental performance, while information disclosure quality exhibits a negative correlation. The study’s findings provide valuable insights for policymakers looking to improve corporate environmental efficiency. They suggest incorporating retail investor attention as a strategy for Chinese publicly traded firms to enhance their environmental performance. Overall, this study highlights the importance of corporate governance practices, information disclosure quality, and retail investor attention in achieving optimal environmental performance.

Green financial investment and its influence on economic and environmental sustainability: does privatization matter?

Green financial investment and privatization have been widely used as policy tools to promote economic growth and efficiency in many countries. However, their effects on environmental sustainability have been less explored. This study utilizes autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) and quantile autoregressive distributed lag (QARDL) techniques to explore the effects of green financial investment and privatization on economic and environmental performance in China. Using data from 1995 to 2021, we analyze the impact of green financial investment and privatization on economic performance, measured by GDP per capita, and environmental performance, measured by CO2 emissions based on green finance and privatization theories. Our findings reveal that green financial investment has a beneficial effect on both economic and environmental performance. On the other hand, privatization has a positive impact on long-term economic performance, while also having negative consequences on environmental performance. These findings can inform evidence-based policies and strategies that promote both economic and environmental performance.

Social trust and environmental performance in China: Does state ownership matter?

Social trust and environmental performance in China: Does state ownership matter?

Obtaining green environmental revival through natural resources price variations: Estimations through GARCH technique.

The study aims to determine how price fluctuations in metallic resource supplies impact China's environmental performance. Thisresearch evaluates the impact of the price volatility of nickel, aluminum, gold, and aluminum on environmental performance in China from 2001 to 2019 to provide an answer to this topic. By examining the robustness of outcomes, the conventional DCC-GARCH approach clarifies the study findings and offers wide policy implications for the most recent topicality CS-ARDL. According to the study, the fluctuation in metal prices significantly influences the nation's GDP. The research's findings show that over the sample period, the price volatility of metallic resources was 23%, and this shift implied a 17.24% change in environmental performance. The findings of the study so ensure that every effort will be made to prevent environmental instability by supporting financial resource volatility recovery via governmental agencies, environmental ministries, and departments. The research has several policy implications, including the necessity for different government aid programs and financial agreements that guarantee environmental growth and resilience. The research's policy recommendations are intended to lessen the impact of structural events and increase environmental effectiveness. Research on financial resource recovery is dispersed and understudied despite the issue having a growing corpus of literature.

High-speed rail and firms' environmental performance: empirical evidence from China.

Developing countries are struggling to balance the economic development and environment protection. This paper examines the impact of high-speed rail (HSR) on firm-level environmental performance in China. Using the staggered expansion of China's passenger-dedicated HSR and the panel data of Chinese manufacturing firm-level data from 2002 to 2012, we find that firms exhibit a lower level of chemical oxygen demand (COD) emissions after the opening of HSR. The average geographical slope of city is used as an instrumental variable to address the potential endogeneity problem of the HSR variable. Furthermore, the reduction effect of HSR introduction on firms' COD emission intensity is more pronounced for firms that located in eastern regions as well as technology-intensive and labor-intensive firms. Agglomeration economies, scale effects, and technological innovation are three plausible channels that allow HSR to promote firm environmental performance. Our paper provides new insights into the impacts of introduction of HSR on firm environmental performance and the development of green city.

Does state-holding matter the impact of business performance on environmental performance in China's manufacturers?

The widespread state-holding of manufacturers and severe environmental pollution enlighten to investigate if Chinese government well coordinates the relationship between firms' business performance (operational performance, financial performance, and speed of development) and environmental performance. We use R&D investment, net profit rate, and growth to represent above 3 kinds of business performance, respectively. Empirical results show that R&D investment significantly positively interacts with environmental performance, while such state does not appear in the interaction between net profit rate as well as growth and environmental performance. Further, the moderating role of state-holding is not very positive.

Pathways to Sustainable Development: Corporate Digital Transformation and Environmental Performance in China

Environmental pollution remains a serious sustainable development issue. Enterprises, as important agents of sustainable development, are receiving increasing attention regarding their efforts to protect the environment. The rapid development of the digital economy has become a new driver of corporate environmental governance and environmental performance improvements, marking a new sustainable development path. We study the environmental effects of corporate digital transformation from the perspective of environmental performance using Chinese A-share listed companies. We construct a two-step systematic GMM econometric model and find that corporate digital transformation significantly improves environmental performance. Heterogeneity analysis shows that environmental performance improvement through digital transformation is more pronounced among state-owned, large, and heavily polluting enterprises. Mechanistic analysis shows that corporate digital transformation mainly improves environmental performance by enhancing green technological innovation and corporate governance. Further analysis shows a nonlinear relationship between corporate digital transformation and environmental performance. The research not only analyzes the impact of corporate digital transformation on environmental performance from multiple dimensions but also discovers the transmission mechanism of digital transformation that affects environmental performance and verifies a possible nonlinear relationship, providing a theoretical basis and practical reference for promoting corporate digital transformation and sustainable development.

Assessing the impact of green energy and finance on environmental performance in China and Japan

Assessing the impact of green energy and finance on environmental performance in China and Japan

The Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure on Chinese Firms' Environmental and Economic Performance in the 21st Century: A Systematic Review

Firms can cause significant environmental and economic problems; thus, they must strengthen their environmental management and information disclosure, which is paramount to improving their economic and environmental performance. Firms must report the consequences of their operations on the environment and economy; however, firms may question the benefits of becoming green and disclosing environmental information. These questions intrigue many scholars. This current systematic review investigates the impact of environmental information disclosure on economic and environmental performance among Chinese firms. A systematic review is employed to identify studies on the impact of environmental information disclosure on firms' economic and environmental performance in China. Studies are identified by searching four databases (PubMed, Web of Science, EBSCO, and Elsevier/Science Direct) between May 25 and June 2, 2021, for articles published in English spanning 2000 to 2020. In total, 13 articles/studies are included in this review. Most (9, or 69.2%) studies reveal a positive relationship between environmental information disclosure and measured outcome. The review shows that environmental information disclosure practices among firms tremendously increase their productivity and profitability. Furthermore, a healthier environment (in terms of reduced mono oxide emissions) is noticed among cities with strict environmental disclosure adherence.

The More the Merrier? Evidence from Firm-Level Exports and Environmental Performance in China

The More the Merrier? Evidence from Firm-Level Exports and Environmental Performance in China

Carbon trading market policies and corporate environmental performance in China

As an important practical exploration of energy saving and emission reduction through market mechanism, carbon emission trading market has important theoretical and practical significance on the impact of environmental performance of enterprises. This paper examines the impact of carbon market policy initiation and its improvement on corporate environmental performance. We found that: first, carbon market policy initiation can effectively improve corporate environmental performance; second, the impact of the degree of perfection of carbon market policy on corporate environmental performance has a threshold effect, and the optimal carbon market policy has a perfection interval of [0.723–0.758]; third, both internal corporate governance and corporate carbon information disclosure can form a synergistic effect with carbon market policy to promote corporate environmental performance improvement; fourth, the heterogeneity test shows that the carbon market policy has a more significant effect on the environmental performance improvement of low-cost transfer capability enterprises, high-energy-consuming enterprises and private enterprises. The findings of this paper provide new ideas to further promote the construction of governments carbon market and improve the environmental performance of enterprises.

Do state-owned enterprises really have better environmental performance in China? Environmental regulation and corporate environmental strategies

Although state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have long been criticized for being inefficient, they play a vital role in realizing social welfare including the improvement of environmental quality. SOEs are controlled by governments, so the motivations and strategies of SOEs to improve corporate environmental performance are distinct from their privately-owned counterparts. In this article, we propose that a unique strategy adopted by SOEs for improving environmental performance is high responsiveness to the government's goal. Using a unique and detailed firm-level dataset, we find that SOEs perform better for the pollutant assessed by government targets while they perform similarly for the unregulated pollutant compared with their privately-owned counterparts, indicating that they are more responsive and accountable for meeting policy requirements. We further find that SOEs worsen their environmental performance after the privatization, which is consistent with the main results. With the privatization of SOEs worldwide, determining how to avoid the negative effects of privatization as well as to motivate for-profit enterprises to improve corporate environmental performance is the key to achieving a win-win.

The Collaborative Governance Between Public and Private Companies to Address Climate Issues to Foster Environmental Performance: Do Environmental Innovation Resistance and Environmental Law Matter?

In the recent decade, the environmental problem is increasing significantly worldwide. With the decrease in environmental health, the environmental performance is decreasing continuously having adverse consequences for the societies. Therefore, to address the environmental problem in China, the current study examined the role of collaborative governance in environmental performance. Consequently, this study examined the relationship between collaborative governance, innovative methods, performance, availability of resources, environmental innovation resistance, environmental law, and environmental performance. Both the public and private companies of environmental protection working in China are considered. To address the objective of the study, a quantitative research approach is used along with the cross-sectional research design. A questionnaire survey is carried out among the public and private companies working in China for data collection. A total of 290 valid questionnaires were returned and used in data analysis. Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) is used for data analysis. Results of this study reported important findings which have a contribution to the literature and practice. Collaborative governance has major importance to enhance environmental performance. The collaboration between public and private companies has the potential to enhance environmental performance. It is found that an increase in collaborative governance can increase the innovative methods, performance, and availability of resources which can enhance environmental performance. The improvement in innovative methods, performance, and availability of resources can foster environmental performance. Furthermore, environmental innovation resistance can decrease environmental performance. Most significantly, environmental law is crucial to enhancing environmental performance. The better implementation of environmental law can enhance the environmental performance in China.

Institutional isomorphism pressure and multinational corporations’ environmental and social performance

ABSTRACT The influence of institutional isomorphism pressure (IIP) on multinational corporations’ (MNCs) environmental and social responsibility has attracted considerable attention from academics. Therefore, this study uses data from MNCs on the 2019 Forbes Global 2000 list to investigate the relationship between IIP (coercive, normative, and mimetic) and MNCs’ environmental and social performance. Our results show that (1) IIP effectively enhances MNCs’ environmental and social performance; (2) compared with other institutional factors, the current coercive-related institutional factors (e.g. regulations) fail to promote environmental performance, and (3) normative related institutional factors (e.g. social norms) do not improve MNCs’ environmental performance in China and Japan. Our study reveals the relationship between IIP and MNCs’ environmental and social performance and provides a more comprehensive description approach of IIP measurement. Moreover, suggestions on enhancing MNCs’ environmental responsibility by strengthening IIP also provide policymakers and MNCs.

Environmental Performance Evaluation of Key Polluting Industries in China-Taking the Power Industry as an Example.

This paper analyzes the environmental performance, spatial and temporal characteristics, and optimization paths of key polluting industries, represented here by the power industry, using the super-efficient MinDS model. The study shows that the environmental performance as a whole presents the characteristics of an inverted U-shaped and then a U-shaped trend; each region presents an asymmetric state of convergent development followed by differentiated development, with 2014 as the structural change point; the development trend of environmental performance in each region is divided into three categories (rising, falling, and stable) and four types of spatial clustering (ultra-high, high, medium, and low levels); and input–output indicators of environmental performance in China and across regions have varying degrees of redundancy, with labor input redundancy being the greatest, followed by capital input, technology input, and pollution emissions. On this basis, we propose to improve the monitoring and inspection mechanism of the implementation process of pollution control in key polluting industries and to improve the level of environmental performance of key polluting industries by optimizing the combination of labor, capital, and technology input factors in each region according to local conditions and adopting differentiated strategies. The main contributions of this paper are threefold: first, we incorporate technological inputs into the environmental performance evaluation index system of the electric power industry, which can better reflect the real inputs of the electric power industry and measure the results more accurately; second, we adopt the MinDS model for measuring the environmental performance level, which can quantitatively analyze the gap between each indicator and the optimal level; and third, we propose a redundancy index, which can be used to compare the redundancy of each indicator and then judge the main efficiency levels of the different factors.

Can low-carbon pilot policy improve atmospheric environmental performance in China? A quasi-natural experiment approach

Whether low-carbon pilot (LCP) policies in China can improve atmospheric environmental performance (AEP) is essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve sustainable development nationwide. However, the LCP policy's impact on the AEP and its underlying mechanism needs further exploration. Based on Chinese provincial (municipal) panel data from 2006 to 2016, the slack-based measure with undesirable output was used to assess the AEP denoted the atmospheric environmental efficiency. On the basis of this efficiency, the difference-in-difference (DID) method was applied to evaluate the impacts of the LCP policy on AEP. The results show that the LCP policy significantly promotes AEP. Further analysis indicates that the favorable institutional environment, greater financial autonomy, and advanced industrial structure can positively moderate LCP policy on AEP. Furthermore, the mechanism analysis indicates that the policy effects are mainly encouraged by R&D innovation. This study provides a fresh way of thinking about the in-depth assessment of AEP and empirical evidence for the further development of the policy.