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How Can China’s Carbon Emissions Trading Pilot Improve New Quality Productivity?

Sustainability
Our research investigated whether the carbon emissions trading pilot policy (CET), while mitigating environmental pollution externalities and fostering green economic and social transformation, can also enhance China’s new quality productivity (NQP) as a
Min Lu, Xuehan Zhou, X. Ren, Xing Wang
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A Review on Sensor Technologies, Control Approaches, and Emerging Challenges in Soft Robotics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review provides an introspective of sensors and controllers in soft robotics. Initially describing the current sensing methods, then moving on to the control methods utilized, and finally ending with challenges and future directions in soft robotics focusing on the material innovations, sensor fusion, and embedded intelligence for sensors and ...
Ean Lovett, Maxwell Hammond, Niloufar Seyfi, Amirreza Fahim Golestaneh, Venanzio Cichella, Caterina Lamuta   +5 more
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Heterogeneity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve across Chinese cities: How to dance with ‘shackles’?

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Although an ‘inverted U-shaped’ economy-environment nexus is proposed in the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis, this initial configuration is considered to be too restrictive.
Li He, Xiaoling Zhang, Yaxue Yan
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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 more
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Environmental regulation, innovation quality and firms’ competitivity―Quasi-natural experiment based on China’s carbon emissions trading pilot

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 2020
In the study of the “Porter Hypothesis”, scholars explored the impact of different forms of innovation on the firms’ competitivity, but did not distinguish between innovations on the difference in patent quality.
Jiangfeng Hu, Qinghua Huang, Xiding Chen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Carbon Emission Trading Pilot Policy and Corporate ESG Performance: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

SAGE Open
The institutional development of carbon trading mechanisms has prompted companies to place greater emphasis on ESG factors and incorporate them into strategic decision-making.
Xiaofang Chen, Kaiti Zou, Xiaodong Gan, Yu Hu   +3 more
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The spatial impact mechanism and policy spillover of carbon emission trading pilot policy on regional industrial energy efficiency-a case study of China

Frontiers in Environmental Science
In response to the pressing energy crisis, China embarked on a comprehensive pilot program for carbon emissions trading in 2013, experimenting with this mechanism across seven provinces and cities, focusing on high-carbon emitting industries.
Jinqiu Li, Youqiang Ding, Meiling Zhang
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Why the “journey” of carbon neutrality is a long one—a mixed method research based on carbon emission trading in hubei province

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
This paper aims to explore the effectiveness of carbon emissions trading system by using mixed method research. In the past 5 years, the development level of carbon finance in Hubei Province is in the first tier.
Yihan Jiang, Jiayi Yao, Ruosu Gao, Jiaying Chen   +3 more
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China’s Carbon Emissions Trading: Lessons from the Pilot Systems [PDF]

Policy Perspectives, 2016
This paper examines China’s seven carbon emissions trading pilot systems, which launched beginning in 2013 to inform the design of China’s upcoming nationwide carbon emissions trading system. It analyzes the seven pilots’ policy features and performance through a comprehensive review of prior studies, existing regulations, and empirical data.
openaire   +1 more source