Cleaner Technology and Natural Resource Management: An Environmental Sustainability Perspective from China

作者：Fiza Shaheen, Muhammad Saeed Lodhi, Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka, Khalid Zaman, Usama Awan, Muhammad Asif, Waqas Ahmed, Maria Siddique · 发表于：Clean Technologies · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.3390/cleantechnol4030036 · 被引用次数：129 · 研究领域：Energy, Environment, Economic Growth、Environmental Impact and Sustainability、Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

In economies, cleaner technology, increased demand for renewable energy, and more efficient use of natural resources contribute to meeting environmental sustainability targets. The Chinese economy is no exception in its attempts to conserve economic and natural resources via collaborative efforts to embrace cleaner technology, green energy sources, and resource conservation management to preserve resources for future generations. This research examines the influence of cleaner technologies, green energy sources, and natural resource management on reducing greenhouse gas emissions using quarterly data for the Chinese economy from 2000Q1 to 2020Q4. The findings demonstrate that increasing demand for green energy reduces greenhouse gas emissions, hence substantiating the premise of ‘green is clean’ energy development. Additionally, optimum resource usage enhances environmental quality, corroborating the ‘resource cleaner blessing’ hypothesis. The positive link between inward foreign direct investment and greenhouse gas emissions substantiates the ‘pollution haven’ concept, according to which inward foreign direct investment uses unsustainable technology in manufacturing processes, hence degrading air quality indicators. Inadequate access to clean cooking technology and increased population density has a detrimental effect on the country’s environmental sustainability agenda, which must be corrected via sustainable regulations. The causality estimates show the feedback relationsh...