Abstract The alarming rate of environmental degradation worldwide has prompted a renewed focus on government effectiveness as an essential factor affecting environmental quality. Few studies have demonstrated the role of government effectiveness in environmental degradation under the influence of economic development. Consequently, this study aims to investigate the effect of government effectiveness and how it impacts environmental degradation using panel data from 61 regions from 2007 to 2021 and the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator. The results show that improving government efficiency will aggravate environmental degradation, manifested in household head education, household electricity access, and government education expenditure indicators. Therefore, the government should adopt and implement strict environmental laws and regulations, regulate emission standards, promote cleaner and more efficient technologies, and encourage low-carbon life to reduce the impact of production and consumption on the environment. Meanwhile, reduce fossil fuel power generation, invest in environmental technology innovation, and increase the proportion of renewable energy power generation.

Environmental protection and low-carbon life are the focus of global attention. This paper adopts Stackelberg’s game method to discuss channel selection. Two decision models are involved: (1) model P represents dual-channel structure of the manufacturer, and (2) model O represents dual-channel structure of the retailer. We examined the optimal pricing strategy, and profit distribution among stakeholders. This research showed that, compared to model O, model D always sells more products, and model D has a higher (manufacturer)/lower (retailer) profits than model O. The retailer’s offline price exhibits a linear decline. At the point of intersection (0.28, 45.5), the price in both models converge to an identical value. From an environmental perspective, model D is more environmentally friendly than model O when unit carbon price is small. Furthermore, the emission reduction rate is higher if consumers’ online preference coefficient is not high in model D. Through the lens of social welfare, the sales strategies employed in model O yield higher social welfare benefits compared to those in model D. For the entire supply chain, model O is the optimal choice if they focus on environmental performance and social welfare. The research provides application guidance for the sustainable development of enterprises.

In today's commitment to achieving the goal of double carbon and advocating low-carbon life, the riverside greenway, as an important ecological public space in the urban center, plays an important role in improving the quality of life of residents, optimizing the urban transportation structure, restoring the water environment ecology, and further building a low-carbon city. Based on the post-occupancy evaluation of the built environment, this paper takes the Wuchang Greenway, Qingshan Greenway and Hongshan Greenway on the Yangtze River in Wuhan as the research objects, comprehensively evaluates the built environment of the three greenways from the aspects of user behavior characteristics and post-use satisfaction, compares and analyzes the advantages and shortcomings of the three greenways according to the evaluation results, and proposes some optimization strategies for the design of urban riverside greenways.

Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Public Service Posters on Low-Carbon Life

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have set the agenda for 2030, calling for collective global efforts to deal with climate change while seeking a balance between economic development and environmental protection. Although many countries are exploring emission reduction paths, mainly from government and corporate perspectives, addressing climate change is also an individual responsibility and requires public participation in collective action. The millennial generation constitutes the current workforce and will be the leaders in climate action for the next 30 years. Therefore, our study focuses on the Chinese millennial generation, conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews with 50 participants in qualitative research to explore their low-carbon lifestyles, the barriers, and enablers in switching to a wider range of low-carbon lifestyles. There are three main results: (1) Based on our study samples, there is an indication that Chinese millennials have a positive attitude towards transitioning to a low-carbon lifestyle. Women demonstrate a stronger willingness to adopt low-carbon behaviors in their daily household activities compared to men. However, their involvement in governance in the context of transitioning to a low-carbon society is limited, with most women assuming execution roles in climate action rather than decision-making positions. (2) Millennial’s low-carbon life transition is accompanied by technological innovation and progress. However, this progress brings some new forms of resource waste, and reasonable policy-making is essential. (3) Personal economic interests and the satisfaction of their consumption needs will drive millennials to reduce carbon emissions in their daily lives, but it requires the guidance of reasonable policy-making and synergies among various stakeholders. This research will help policymakers better understand the current status and potential issues related to people’s low-carbon actions, enabling the formulation of more rational guiding policies. It can also help other stakeholders learn about millennials’ demands and take more effective collective action toward carbon reduction.

The low carbon living of residents is important for China to achieve the “double carbon goal.” This paper uses the natural language processing technique in machine learning to collect data from 2005 to 2020, constructs the government’s “green will” index and residents’ low-carbon life index, and conducts an empirical study through a static panel model and a dynamic panel model. The study shows that: (a) all cities in the Yangtze River Delta pay more and more attention to low-carbon publicity, but there are individual differences in the degree of attention; (b) in general, the government’s willingness to go green does drive residents to develop a low-carbon life; (c) affluence and human capital growth are positively related to the effect of government low-carbon publicity. Accordingly, the following measures are proposed: increase the government’s low-carbon publicity efforts, deepen education reform, attract high-end talents, strengthen scientific and technological innovation, promote new urbanization, and reduce the marginal cost of carbon emissions.

Numerical study of HTJI on combustion characteristics of neat ammonia engine under atmospheric intake conditions

ABSTRACT Exploring cultural factors in household carbon emissions is of positive significance in promoting low carbon life. This research uses China Household Financial Survey 2015 (CHFS 2015) to investigate how Confucian culture impacts carbon emission of Chinese household. We found that Confucian households have significant lower level of carbon emissions due to the ‘inhibited’ consumption level and the service-oriented consumption structure; Specifically speaking, larger household sizes, stronger propensity to save, and stronger housing preferences lead to Confucian households’ lower consumption level, and an expenditure arrangement favouring education and medical care shapes a service-oriented consumption structure, which is also a low-carbon emissions consumption structure. Furthermore, Confucian ecological ethics did not notably enhance households’ subjective environmental attitudes, but strengthen adaptive behaviours in response to ecological deterioration, thereby reducing household carbon emission levels. Our research contributes fresh evidence and findings to the study of the environmental implications of Confucian culture.

ABSTRACT Introduction. The article is devoted to the current issues of global low-carbon development, the concept of the evolution of the transition between different stages of low-carbon transformation of the economy, development strategies of countries, society and the world, research into the impact of the economic development model on achieving the goal of climate neutrality and scenarios of energy and digital transitions on this path. The purpose of the article is to systematize logically consistent connections between the concept of the evolution of low-carbon transformation of global development and scenarios of energy and technological/digital transformations. Research methods. When writing the scientific article, the dialectical method of scientific cognition, methods of scientific abstraction, analysis and synthesis; systematic generalization; comparative analysis, statistical analysis were used. Results. The hypothesis of the existence of connections between the concept of evolution of lowcarbon transformation of global development and scenarios of energy and technological/digital transformations is proven on the basis of systematization and generalization of interdisciplinary research on the concepts of sustainable development, climate neutrality, low-carbon development, forecasts and scenarios of energy and digital transitions. The work summarizes the phases of low-carbon development, the connections between the categories of ―low-carbon energy‖, ―low-carbon life‖, ―low-carbon society‖, ―low-carbon city‖, ―low-carbon community‖, ―low-carbon world‖. Based on the energy transition scenarios proposed by S&P Global Commodity Insights, conclusions are drawn about possible scenarios of the transition from the initial to the developed phase of low-carbon development. The ways of digital transformations are summarized, which should ensure greater efficiency of the transition to the mature phase of low-carbon development. Conclusions. The main provisions of this article will contribute to the formation of a state policy for economic recovery based on the principles of "Build Back Better" and "Build Back Greener", taking into account the scenarios of the global energy transition and theoretical concepts of the evolution of low-carbon development. Keywords: low-carbon development, climate neutrality, energy, energy transition, digital transformation.

Under the increasingly severe climate crisis, it is of great significance to carry out research on carbon budget calculation and multi-scenario prediction under the "double carbon" target for realizing regional low-carbon and high-quality development. Taking the Yellow River Basin (YRB) of China as the research area, this paper firstly calculates the carbon budget of the YRB from 2000 to 2020 and analyzes its spatiotemporal change. Then, we simulated carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, and net carbon budget during 2030-2100 under the SSP1-5 scenario. Finally, the regulation strategies of carbon balance of the YRB were proposed from four aspects: strengthening ecological governance, improving land use mode, optimizing industrial structure and advocating low-carbon life. Our results showed: (1) The overall carbon sequestration and carbon emission show a trend of fluctuating increase during 2000 to 2020, but the increase rate of carbon emission is far greater than carbon storage. The net carbon emission during 2000-2020 is negative, which is manifested as a carbon sink area. (2) The order of carbon sequestration of the provinces in the YRB during 2030-2100 is the same under the SSP1-5 scenario, and the descending order is the following: Inner Mongolia,

In the context of "carbon neutrality" and "carbon peak", energy conservation, environmental protection, and low-carbon life have become the mainstream of society. As a new force in the development of green economy, carbon trading has become an indispensable part of the financial market. There are unlimited business opportunities in the carbon market, and the good development of carbon funds is of great significance to promoting the development of China's CDM projects and enhancing the international competitiveness of the low-carbon economy. At present, government-led public welfare carbon funds are the main driving force in China's carbon financial market. Narrow financing channels have caused China's carbon financial market to face a funding gap, and there is an urgent need for social funds to participate in the carbon financial market. Therefore, this article first analyzes carbon funds and their operating methods; secondly, sorts out the existing domestic and foreign carbon fund transaction types, focusing on domestic carbon funds; and finally, in order to better serve the real economy’s low-carbon emission reduction Develop and better develop China's carbon financial market, and study the role and significance of carbon funds as media investors and financing parties in the financial system.

As one of the four oceans on earth, the Arctic Ocean plays a vital role in affecting the ecological environment of the earth. Due to vegetation degradation, natural disasters and human activities, acid rain, global warming and ozone layer destruction as the main forms of climate change have brought serious negative impacts on the Arctic Ocean ecosystem and its environment. Currently, the Arctic Ocean is one of the regions of the world most affected by climate change. Climate change is caused by many factors. Vegetation degradation and atmospheric particulate matter caused by natural or human activities are major contributors to global climate change. Climate change has led to a dramatic rise in Arctic temperatures and increased mercury pollution. Pollution and reduced sea ice are also affecting many plant and animal species. In this paper, the causes of climate change and the effects on the environment and biodiversity in the Arctic Ocean are studied, and the improvement measures are proposed. In the future, people should pay more attention to carbon emissions, advocate low-carbon life, and pay attention to environmental protection. This study provides a theoretical basis for people to pay more attention to the abnormal changes of the Arctic Ocean environment and pay more attention to improving the environment.

At present, China is still in the primary stage of socialist development. With the change of the current global development situation and the concept of "sustainable development" put forward in the 1980s, this concept began to become more and more popular. In the process of urban development, the environment will be damaged to a certain extent, and the sustainable development of the city is inevitable. Green building design can save resources and has become one of the hallmarks of modern cities. But green building is not widespread in China. Low-carbon life is very necessary, therefore, we should pay attention to the reasons why green building design has not been paid attention to and how to increase efforts to promote green building design. Green building should be the development direction of current construction industry. Adhering to the concept of ecology, energy conservation and sustainable development, green buildings will bring great changes to China's urban development. The development of green architecture in our country is still in its infancy, the green building design has failed to scale to thousands, its purpose is to promote people highly harmonious and unified, architecture, natural, economic and environmental benefits, social benefits fully coordinated, prompting the harmonious development of national economy and social environment, ecological environment quickly and well.

At a time when low-carbon life has become an important global issue, the decarbonization of manufacturing enterprises cannot be delayed in the face of the government’s green policy and other objective conditions. Under these circumstances, how to arrange the production plan before and after the implication of low-carbon policies is an urgent issue to be settled, especially for the capital-constrained news vendors. To address these problems, this paper firstly builds a stylized supply chain model consisting of two different types of manufacturers (i.e., low-carbon type and traditional type) with capital constraints, then obtains equilibrium production and business strategies resorting to Stackelberg game theory, and lastly conducts an analysis of how the key factors affect manufacturers’ green transition decisions under different scenarios of carbon policy. With the study’s structure, some interesting and important results and managerial insights are derived. For example, but not limited to, it is found that: (i) compared with traditional products, the price fluctuation of low-carbon products is greater than that of traditional products with the increase in consumers’ low-carbon awareness. And consumers have more tolerance for price increases for low-carbon products. (ii) When producing low-carbon products is cost-effective, it is a wise choice to produce more low-carbon products. When producing low-carbon items is costly, producing more low-carbon products is still a dominant strategy until the expenditure difference between low-carbon and traditional ones exceeds a certain threshold. (iii) When the expenditure on low-carbon production is moderate, the manufacturer first prefers the traditional strategy, then the low-carbon one, with an increase in consumers’ low-carbon awareness. When the expenditure on low-carbon production stays at a low or high level, the low-carbon strategy always dominates the traditional one with a certain condition satisfied. This study can enrich the theory of green supply chain management and provide decision support for enterprise managers in the green transition.

Environmental protecting is an often discussed topic in recent years, researches on sustainable and circular economics emerge in large numebrs. The relationship of the methods of examing sustainable development and the narratives on it has selmdonly been studied. Medias emphasis on low carbon life and lowering green house gases, as a main form of presentation of narratives, media plays a significant role, to what degree could the narratives of circular economics suggests anthropocentric and conflicts among economical hypothesis and indexes of media is the aim of this essay.

This paper focuses on the upgrading project of Horticulture Lake in China's Science and Technology City-Miangyang, and summarizes the seven major problems of the current situation by sorting out the problems of the current situation of Horticulture Lake. With natural ecology and green sponge as the design concept of renovation and upgrading, seven major renovation and upgrading measures are proposed, such as the code of lake ecology, the code of three-dimensional ecological lake scape, the code of green ecological sponge, the code of road system upgrading, the code of flower border upgrading, the code of plant landscape upgrading and the code of ground cover upgrading of Song Shou Lan, in order to create a new scene of green technology and low-carbon life.

Based on the data obtained on carbon emissions in Guangdong Province, China, from 1997 to 2019, this study focused on the relationship between energy consumption and population development in Guangdong Province. This study quantitatively analyzed the impact of different population structures and technological progress on carbon emissions in Guangdong Province by establishing an extended model of Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT). The results showed that the population size factor was not as good as the population structure factor for carbon emissions. In addition, different demographic factors affected carbon emissions differently with both positive and negative effects. Finally, relevant policy suggestions were proposed from the perspectives of encouraging the childbearing of appropriate-age residents, optimizing the population structure, reducing the separation of people and households, guiding residents to return to the traditional family model, guiding residents to live a low-carbon life, optimizing industrial institutions, and adjusting the energy consumption structure.

Abstract In pursuit of low-carbon life, renewable energy is widely used, accelerating the development of lithium-ion batteries. Battery equalization is a crucial technology for lithium-ion batteries, and a simple and reliable voltage-equalization control strategy is widely used because the battery terminal voltage is very easy to obtain. But when the battery voltage is used to determine whether the battery needs to end equalization, it often does not reflect the state of charge well, resulting in battery management system misjudgment, which makes it unable to achieve a better equalization effect. In this paper, we propose a high-performance equalization control strategy based on the equalization data of the general equalization strategy, which turns on the equalization again after the equalization is completed and uses the equalization time instead of the battery voltage as the indicator. In this paper, we analyse and test this principle in detail. The difference between the final voltage of the equalized battery and the target voltage is only 4 versus 3 mV, which is an extreme advantage compared with the error of 18 versus 24 mV of the general equalization strategy, and it adds almost no workload, which makes it a good prospect for application.

As an infrastructure in the field of green finance, green payment plays an important role in guiding the green-oriented allocation of social resources and the public's awareness of environmental protection, and promoting the greening, recycling and low-carbonization of the production methods of enterprises and the consumption patterns of individuals and households. This paper explores the basis of green payment development in China from five aspects: theory, market, policy, finance and digital ecology, and examines the positioning of green payment to help achieve the goal of "carbon neutrality" at three levels: macro, meso and micro. In the light of the lifestyles of Chinese residents, the specific application scenarios of green payment in China, such as transportation, low-carbon life and paperless payment, are compiled. We use electronic payment methods such as WeChat payment to explore the mode of green payment ecosystem to achieve low-carbon development, and explore the practical path of green payment to help "carbon neutrality" in both broad and narrow sense from the perspective of industrial chain. Finally, the above analysis is combined with the practical significance of green payment for carbon neutrality and the suggestions for the future development of green payment in different dimensions.

Nowadays, China practices “low-carbon life”, and environmental protection is the general trend. As an emerging industry, new energy electric vehicles must solve the problem of charging pile shortage in order to maintain a good momentum of development, so as to occupy a certain market share in the automotive industry. Therefore, with limited resources, it is necessary to make the distribution of charging pile more reasonable. This paper takes Xi'an city as an example to predict the best location for charging pile construction by entropy TOPSIS method in order to improve the utilization rate of charging piles, which has reference significance for the construction of charging piles.