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A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B1: Energy and Climate Change".

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Dr. Wendong Wei

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School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China
Interests: resource policy; energy policy; climate policy

Dr. Cuixia Gao

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School of Mathematical Sciences, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: complex networks; energy economy system modeling; time series analysis

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Dear Colleagues,

In the past few decades, many international conventions have been proposed, and more than one hundred countries worldwide have spelled out their intentions for addressing the climate change challenge. Based on the Paris Agreement, most countries pledge to achieve carbon neutrality before 2050. As the energy system is the major contributor to national carbon emissions, implementing energy transition towards renewable energy can play an essential role in achieving such ambitious carbon neutrality, which requires a substitution for conventional energy. However, renewable energy development highly relies on many critical resources, which raises concerns about potential resource shortages in the future. Hence, the rational management of energy and resources will be necessary to achieve carbon neutrality. The research topic in this Special Issue will focus on energy and resource management policy under the carbon neutrality target. Suitable energy policies and resource management regulations will be encouraged.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to unite the efforts of researchers from all over the world to carry out adequate and sensible resolutions on promoting energy transition towards carbon neutrality from the perspective of energy and resource management.

We invite you to submit your original papers to this Special Issue on “Energy and Resource Management under Carbon Neutrality” and look forward to receiving your outstanding research. Articles selected for this Special Issue will be subject to a peer-review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of fundamental and practical research results.

Dr. Wendong Wei
Dr. Cuixia Gao
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energy system transition
carbon neutrality
energy policy
resource management
clean energy
climate change

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Provincial Carbon Emission Allocation and Efficiency in China Based on Carbon Peak Targets

by Mengwan Zhang, Fengfeng Gao, Bin Huang and Bo Yin

Energies 2022, 15(23), 9181; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15239181 - 3 Dec 2022

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As the world’s largest carbon emitter, China is facing great pressure to reduce emissions. With the country’s proposed timeline for carbon peaking and carbon neutralization, a new goal has been established for China’s low-carbon development. Based on the improved equal proportion allocation method, this paper allocates the overall carbon emission control goal for 2025 among 30 provinces and cities, based on 2015 figures, and measures and studies the country’s carbon emission allocation efficiency on this basis. The results show that Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Inner Mongolia need to increase their emission reduction capacity, while Jiangxi, Guizhou, Gansu, Qinghai, Hainan and Guangxi have relatively low emission reduction targets. Based on this allocation scheme, more provinces can reduce carbon emissions by increasing their efficiency with up-to-date technology, and a new vision for national allocation that is more easily accepted by all provinces and regions can be developed. Based on the research results of this paper, each province and region can choose its own low-carbon economic development path within the constraints of China’s carbon intensity emission reduction targets, without compromising its own economic development characteristics. Full article

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FDI, Technology Spillovers, and Green Innovation: Theoretical Analysis and Evidence from China

by Bingtao Qin, Yulu Gai, Liming Ge, Pengbo Sun, Yongwei Yu and Yi Zheng

Energies 2022, 15(20), 7497; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15207497 - 12 Oct 2022

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillovers play an increasingly important role in a host country’s development. Evaluating the positive effect of FDI inflows on green innovation is essential for correct city design. Based on the panel data of 262 cities in China from 2004 to 2018, we first analyzed the impact of FDI technology spillovers on green innovation in Chinese cities and then tested the threshold effect in four absorptive capacity factors: environmental regulation, economic growth, human capital, and industry size. Finally, we compared the time and space of two types of cities crossing the threshold from the perspective of innovative and non-innovative cities. The results show that FDI can significantly promote green innovation in Chinese cities and the promoting effect of FDI on green innovation has nonlinear characteristics, namely, such effects only make sense when absorptive capacity is above the threshold points. Additionally, among the four absorptive capacity factors, the development degrees of innovative cities are ahead of non-innovative cities; in particular, there is a significant difference between them in terms of economic growth. Local governments should develop reasonable policy combination tools according to the absorptive capacity characteristics of different cities to effectively promote the technology spillover effect of FDI and achieve coordinated ecological and economic development. Full article

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Evaluating Regional Carbon Inequality and Its Dependence with Carbon Efficiency: Implications for Carbon Neutrality

by Jingyu Ji and Hang Lin

Energies 2022, 15(19), 7022; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15197022 - 24 Sep 2022

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This paper proposes a novel regional carbon emission inequality (RCI) index based on a special kind of general distribution. Using the proposed RCI index and based on China’s county-level panel data over the time span of 1997–2017, the regional carbon emission inequality of China is evaluated at intra-provincial, sub-national, and national levels. Based on that, the dependence between regional carbon inequality and carbon efficiency is studied by using copula functions and nonlinear dependence measures. The empirical results show that: (1) Shanghai, Tianjin, and Inner Mongolia have the worst carbon inequalities; while Hainan, Qinghai, and Jiangxi are the three most carbon-equal provinces; (2) there is a divergence phenomenon in RCI values of municipalities over the past decade; (3) from the national-level perspective, the inter-provincial carbon emission inequality is much greater than that at the intra-provincial level; (4) from the sub-national-level perspective, the east region has the highest RCI value, followed by the northeast, west, and the central regions; (5) there is a so-called "efficiency-equality (E-E) trade-off" in each provincial administrative unit, meaning that the higher carbon efficiency generally comes with higher carbon inequality, i.e., carbon efficiency comes at a price of carbon inequality; and (6) by re-grouping provincial units via the efficiency-equality cost and industrial structure, respectively, both carbon equality and carbon efficiency can be achieved in some regions simultaneously, thereby getting out of the “E-E trade-off” dilemma. The empirical evidence may provide valuable insight regarding the topic of “equality and efficiency” in environmental economics, and offer policy implications for regional economic planning and coordination. Full article

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Analysis of China’s Coal Reduction Path under the Goal of Peak Carbon Emissions and Carbon Neutralization

by Hanbin Liu, Xintong Wang and Siqi Chang

Energies 2022, 15(19), 6929; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15196929 - 22 Sep 2022

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In recent years, China has proposed the goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, which will significantly alter its existing coal-based energy mix. Since coal is China’s primary source of energy and the largest contributor to carbon emissions, coal reduction is an important measure toward carbon neutrality. In order to guarantee the stable development of economy and society in the process of coal reduction, the path and cost of coal reduction need to be studied in depth. Based on coal use in China, this paper examines and measures the stages and costs of coal reduction. It also gives a definition for coal reduction costs for the first time, including economic cost, environment and ecology cost, and health cost, as well as proposes a framework for analyzing the “full cost, full process, and full scenario”. We measure the cost in combination with the KAYA formula, and take into account the time value of the cost. Based on the above measurement framework, we calculate the unit coal reduction cost and estimate the coal reduction cost between CNY 454.38 and 827.1 billion. Full article

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