The spatial impact of digital economy on energy intensity in China in the context of double carbon to achieve the sustainable development goals.

Autor: Guo Q; School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China., Wu Z; School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China., Jahanger A; School of Economics, Hainan University, Haikou City, 570228, Hainan, China. atif_jahanger@hotmail.com.; Institute of Open Economy, Haikou, 570228, Hainan, China. atif_jahanger@hotmail.com., Ding C; School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China.; School of Tourism, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China., Guo B; School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, 830046, China., Awan A; Graduate School, NisanTasi University, Istanbul, Turkey.; University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Environmental science and pollution research international [Environ Sci Pollut Res Int] 2023 Mar; Vol. 30 (13), pp. 35528-35544. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Dec 19.
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-24814-8
Abstrakt: Using the provincial panel data of China during 2012-2019, the present study employed spatial Durbin error model to explore the spatial effect of the digital economy on energy intensity. The results show that both digital economy and energy intensity have spatial autocorrelation, showing the distribution characteristics of spatial aggregation. The digital economy has a significant negative influence on energy intensity. The result shows a significant spatial spillover effect of digital economy on energy intensity, and the development of the digital economy in neighboring regions reduces energy intensity in the central region. Additionally, industrial structure, urbanization, energy price, and foreign direct investment have a heterogenous impact on energy intensity. Thus, it is crucial to give importance to the development of the energy intensity, plan the spatial layout of the digital industry as a whole, drive the coordinated growth of the regional digital economy, quicken the upgrading of industrial structure, promote urbanization, perfect the energy price formation mechanism, raise the entry threshold for foreign direct investment, to effectively reduce the energy intensity, and facilitate the smooth realization of the "double carbon" goal.
(© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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