Regional Response of Low Carbon Investments to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Stock Markets in Seeking Carbon Neutrality Goals
Low carbon investments are significant in climate change and sustainable economic growth. The research considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on low carbon investments using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in different regions to find the correlation between various market...
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| author | Jiang Chen Long Zhao Deimantė Teresienė Greta Keliuotytė-Staniulėnienė Daiva Budrienė Rasa Kanapickienė Jekaterina Kartasova Jianqiang Gu |
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| description | Low carbon investments are significant in climate change and sustainable economic growth. The research considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on low carbon investments using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in different regions to find the correlation between various markets and the impact of the pandemic. Our research employs the method of covariance/correlation analysis to investigate the relationship between low carbon investments in different regions. We also check the main parameters of descriptive statistics. We use the method of bivariate regression analysis to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the performance of ESG stock indices in Emerging, European, and Global markets. The main findings reveal that the global prevalence and mortality risk of COVID-19 infection have a significant adverse effect on the performance of Emerging, European, and Global ESG stock markets. In contrast, the effect of COVID-19 cases reported deaths caused by COVID-19 infection to appear to be mixed. Our research shows that the correlation between the European ESG stock market and other ESG markets is exceptionally low or negative in the 1-year horizon. In contrast, tendencies in other markets are similar. So it means that the European ESG stock market is a good tool for diversification and risk mitigation during critical moments. Our results can be used in practice for portfolio management purposes. Institutional and other investors can use these results for low carbon portfolio management and risk mitigation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-411d93108d994235a9caec97655ca7302022-12-22T02:40:00ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Environmental Science2296-665X2022-11-011010.3389/fenvs.2022.938141938141Regional Response of Low Carbon Investments to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Stock Markets in Seeking Carbon Neutrality GoalsJiang Chen0Long Zhao1Deimantė Teresienė2Greta Keliuotytė-Staniulėnienė3Daiva Budrienė4Rasa Kanapickienė5Jekaterina Kartasova6Jianqiang Gu7Jianghai Polytechnic College, Yangzhou, ChinaGuangling College of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, ChinaFinance Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LithuaniaFinance Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LithuaniaFinance Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LithuaniaFinance Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LithuaniaFinance Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LithuaniaBusiness School, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, ChinaLow carbon investments are significant in climate change and sustainable economic growth. The research considers the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on low carbon investments using environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in different regions to find the correlation between various markets and the impact of the pandemic. Our research employs the method of covariance/correlation analysis to investigate the relationship between low carbon investments in different regions. We also check the main parameters of descriptive statistics. We use the method of bivariate regression analysis to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the performance of ESG stock indices in Emerging, European, and Global markets. The main findings reveal that the global prevalence and mortality risk of COVID-19 infection have a significant adverse effect on the performance of Emerging, European, and Global ESG stock markets. In contrast, the effect of COVID-19 cases reported deaths caused by COVID-19 infection to appear to be mixed. Our research shows that the correlation between the European ESG stock market and other ESG markets is exceptionally low or negative in the 1-year horizon. In contrast, tendencies in other markets are similar. So it means that the European ESG stock market is a good tool for diversification and risk mitigation during critical moments. Our results can be used in practice for portfolio management purposes. Institutional and other investors can use these results for low carbon portfolio management and risk mitigation.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.938141/fullESGstock marketclimate changeCOVID-19sustainable and responsible investments (SRI) |
| spellingShingle | Jiang Chen Long Zhao Deimantė Teresienė Greta Keliuotytė-Staniulėnienė Daiva Budrienė Rasa Kanapickienė Jekaterina Kartasova Jianqiang Gu Regional Response of Low Carbon Investments to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Stock Markets in Seeking Carbon Neutrality Goals Frontiers in Environmental Science ESG stock market climate change COVID-19 sustainable and responsible investments (SRI) |
| title | Regional Response of Low Carbon Investments to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Stock Markets in Seeking Carbon Neutrality Goals |
| title_full | Regional Response of Low Carbon Investments to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Stock Markets in Seeking Carbon Neutrality Goals |
| title_fullStr | Regional Response of Low Carbon Investments to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Stock Markets in Seeking Carbon Neutrality Goals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Regional Response of Low Carbon Investments to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Stock Markets in Seeking Carbon Neutrality Goals |
| title_short | Regional Response of Low Carbon Investments to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Stock Markets in Seeking Carbon Neutrality Goals |
| title_sort | regional response of low carbon investments to the covid 19 pandemic the case of stock markets in seeking carbon neutrality goals |
| topic | ESG stock market climate change COVID-19 sustainable and responsible investments (SRI) |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.938141/full |
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