What influences the performance of carbon emissions in China?-Research on the inter-provincial carbon emissions' conditional configuration impacts.
The severe global warming issue currently threatens humans' existence and development. Countries and international organizations have effectively implemented policies to reduce carbon emissions and investigate low-carbon growth strategies. Reducing carbon emissions is a hot topic that academics...
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| author | Weidong Chen Dongli Li Quanling Cai Kaisheng Di Caiping Liu Mingxing Wang |
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| description | The severe global warming issue currently threatens humans' existence and development. Countries and international organizations have effectively implemented policies to reduce carbon emissions and investigate low-carbon growth strategies. Reducing carbon emissions is a hot topic that academics and government policy-making departments are concerned about.Through necessary condition analysis (NCA) and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA), this paper investigates local governments' configuration linkage effect and path choice to improve carbon emission performance from six dimensions: energy consumption, industrial structure, technological innovation, government support, economic development, and demographic factors. The research findings include the following: (1) Individual condition does not represent necessary conditions for the government's carbon performance. Among the two sets of second-order equivalence configurations(S and Q) (five high-level carbon performance configurations), those dominated by economic development or low energy consumption can produce high-level carbon performance. Therefore, the six antecedent conditions dimensions work together to explain how the government can create high levels of carbon performance. (2)According to the regional comparison, China's eastern, central, and western regions exhibit similarities and differences in the driving forces behind high carbon emission performance. All three regions can demonstrate carbon emission performance when all the factors are combined. However, when constrained by the conditions of each region's resource endowment, the eastern region emphasizes the advantage of economic and technological innovation, the central region favors government support and demographic factors, and the western region prefers upgrading industrial structure based on a specific level of economic development. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-565d068d61e04ec1bfb67f14b0fe95712024-04-14T05:31:34ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032024-01-01194e029376310.1371/journal.pone.0293763What influences the performance of carbon emissions in China?-Research on the inter-provincial carbon emissions' conditional configuration impacts.Weidong ChenDongli LiQuanling CaiKaisheng DiCaiping LiuMingxing WangThe severe global warming issue currently threatens humans' existence and development. Countries and international organizations have effectively implemented policies to reduce carbon emissions and investigate low-carbon growth strategies. Reducing carbon emissions is a hot topic that academics and government policy-making departments are concerned about.Through necessary condition analysis (NCA) and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA), this paper investigates local governments' configuration linkage effect and path choice to improve carbon emission performance from six dimensions: energy consumption, industrial structure, technological innovation, government support, economic development, and demographic factors. The research findings include the following: (1) Individual condition does not represent necessary conditions for the government's carbon performance. Among the two sets of second-order equivalence configurations(S and Q) (five high-level carbon performance configurations), those dominated by economic development or low energy consumption can produce high-level carbon performance. Therefore, the six antecedent conditions dimensions work together to explain how the government can create high levels of carbon performance. (2)According to the regional comparison, China's eastern, central, and western regions exhibit similarities and differences in the driving forces behind high carbon emission performance. All three regions can demonstrate carbon emission performance when all the factors are combined. However, when constrained by the conditions of each region's resource endowment, the eastern region emphasizes the advantage of economic and technological innovation, the central region favors government support and demographic factors, and the western region prefers upgrading industrial structure based on a specific level of economic development.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293763&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Weidong Chen Dongli Li Quanling Cai Kaisheng Di Caiping Liu Mingxing Wang What influences the performance of carbon emissions in China?-Research on the inter-provincial carbon emissions' conditional configuration impacts. PLoS ONE |
| title | What influences the performance of carbon emissions in China?-Research on the inter-provincial carbon emissions' conditional configuration impacts. |
| title_full | What influences the performance of carbon emissions in China?-Research on the inter-provincial carbon emissions' conditional configuration impacts. |
| title_fullStr | What influences the performance of carbon emissions in China?-Research on the inter-provincial carbon emissions' conditional configuration impacts. |
| title_full_unstemmed | What influences the performance of carbon emissions in China?-Research on the inter-provincial carbon emissions' conditional configuration impacts. |
| title_short | What influences the performance of carbon emissions in China?-Research on the inter-provincial carbon emissions' conditional configuration impacts. |
| title_sort | what influences the performance of carbon emissions in china research on the inter provincial carbon emissions conditional configuration impacts |
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