Understanding carbon footprint: An evaluation criterion for achieving sustainable development
December 2024
Excessive greenhouse gas emissions lead to global warming, which poses a critical challenge for human society. Worldwide consensus that carbon emissions must be reduced to achieve sustainable development...
Global greenhouse gas emissions in the 21st century: Complex network, driver pattern and economy-based interaction
June 2025
Achieving a reduction in global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions requires collaborative efforts from the international community; however, a comprehensive understanding of the spatiotemporal characteristics...
Evolution of energy and metal demand driven by industrial revolutions and its trend analysis
September 2021
Industrial revolutions have a profound impact on energy and metal demand. Based on technological improvement, industrial transformation, and changes of energy and metal consumption in the United States,...
China’s path to a global ecological civilization: Concepts and practices for sustainable development
September 2025
China actively fosters practical green cooperation to advance global sustainable development, and strengthens global environmental governance initiatives, including the implementation of the Sustainable...
Promoting sustainable consumption and circular economy: the intention of Vietnamese youth consumers to purchase products made from recycled plastics
June 2024
Recycling is viewed as a key component in a circular economy and serves as an ideal solution for promoting sustainability. During the global plastic crisis, plastic recycling practices have been adopted...
Green finance, trade diversification, and institutional quality as catalysts for sustainable industrialization: An empirical analysis of selected Asian Belt and Road Initiative Economies
June 2026
Asian economies of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) face growing pressure to sustain industrial expansion while meeting environmental goals, yet limited cross-country evidence exists on how green...
Analysis of the process and outcomes of the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement
June 2025
Global Stocktake is an important component of the global climate governance mechanism. The first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement in 2023 has clarified collective progress and identified the...
Resource constraints and firm innovation: When less is more?
September 2023
This paper explores the relationship between resource constraints and innovation of new firms. Drawing upon the relevant literature, we incorporate resource constraints as the antecedent to the bricolage-innovation...
Impact of carbon disclosure on debt financing costs
March 2024
Creditors, such as banks, often use disclosed environmental information to assess a company’s environmental risk and ensure the safety of debt funds. Consequently, carbon disclosures have become an...
Resource constraints and bricolage: The moderating role of entrepreneurs’ creativity cognitive style
June 2025
This study examines the moderating role of entrepreneurs’ creative cognitive styles in the relationship between resource constraints and bricolage. Drawing on insights from cognitive psychology and...
Impact of climate policy uncertainty on urban carbon emissions: Empirical evidence from China
June 2026
The effect of climate policy on carbon emissions has been widely analyzed; however, the literature on climate policy uncertainty (CPU) is limited. We used panel data from 281 Chinese cities from 2006...
Strengthening e-waste governance: A decision framework for sustainable transboundary movements under the Swiss-Ghana Amendments
September 2025
The Swiss-Ghana Amendments to the Basel Convention mark a significant milestone in global e-waste (electronic waste) management, requiring Prior Informed Consent (PIC) for all transboundary movements...
Digital-green integration promotes synergistic pollution reduction and carbon mitigation: Mechanism analysis based on whole-process production control
June 2026
Synergistic pollution reduction and carbon mitigation (SPRCM) are inherent requirements for high-quality development. This study explores the internal mechanisms through which digital-green integration...
Empowering innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises through public data openness: Mechanism exploration and empirical evidence based on “specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative” enterprises
June 2026
This study draws on public data openness policies of local governments and micro-level data from A-share listed enterprises across 30 provinces in China from 2011 to 2022. Thus, the study examines the...
Impact of banks’ ESG disclosure assurance on borrowers’ ESG performance: Evidence from China
September 2025
This study examines the impact of banks’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure assurance (BEDA) on borrowing enterprises’ ESG performance to investigate China’s bank-enterprise loan...
Technological anxiety: Analysis of the impact of industrial intelligence on employment in China
September 2024
Employment is the greatest livelihood. Whether the impact of industrial robotics technology materialized in machines on employment in the digital age is an “icing on the cake” or “adding fuel to the...
Literature review on waste management of online food delivery industry in China
September 2023
Meituan Waimai, which was officially launched in November 2013, has created a huge market for food delivery in China. After years of development, China’s online food delivery market reached RMB 664.62...
Evaluation of the effects of Chinese Dietary Guidelines on nutrition, environment, and cost
December 2024
National dietary guidelines serve as a strategic tool to facilitate dietary adjustments, improve human nutrition, and reduce environmental strain by guiding individuals toward healthier dietary choices....
Green human development in Indonesia: Role of renewable and nonrenewable energy
September 2025
As the world’s fourth most populous country, Indonesia presents challenges and opportunities for sustainable energy progress, offering a critical context to investigate green human development (GHD)....
‘Isomorphic’ behavior of corporate greenwashing
March 2022
In the implementation of corporate environmental responsibility,‘greenwashing’ is a pseudo-social behavior which is theopposite of ‘genuine green’ behaviors. With the improvement of the public awareness...
Green supply chain management and low-carbon innovation spillover effects
December 2025
Supply chain partnerships are an essential component of business innovations. This study uses data on A-share listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2012 to 2022 to conduct...
Exploring the impact of energy poverty on carbon inequality in the light of global evidence
December 2025
Energy is a cornerstone of modern society that plays a pivotal role in mitigating carbon inequality. This study examines the impact of energy poverty on carbon inequality using global panel data from...
Evaluating the economic growth effects of China’s “Area-Based Evaluation Mechanism” Reform: Evidence from county-level panel data
June 2026
China’s rapid economic growth has long relied on a model of large-scale urban land acquisition and transfer, which is now increasingly constrained by central government policies. In response, local...
Exploring the unique characteristics of environmental sustainability in China: Navigating future challenges
March 2023
With the pace of global sustainable development, China has improved significantly in tackling environmental problems such as carbon emissions, climate change, air, water, and soil pollution, and wildlife...
Analysis of impact mechanism of the Yangtze River Delta integration upon county-level air pollution
March 2026
The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) is one of China’s most economically dense regions with the most dynamic county-level economies. The YRD’s success in addressing air pollution at the county level directly...