China''s National Energy Administration (NEA) released its 2024 energy work plan on Friday, laying out a roadmap aimed at bolstering the green and low-carbon transition of … - Download [PDF]
China''s National Energy Administration (NEA) released its 2024 energy work plan on Friday, laying out a roadmap aimed at bolstering the green and low-carbon transition of …
Roughly a decade ago, the Chinese government implemented a green credit policy aimed at lowering emissions from highly polluting corporations through improving information disclosure quality during the loan process. According to policy guidelines, banks may provide financial support only for new projects that passed an environmental assessment …
"The findings highlight a crucial energy transition point, not only for China but for other countries, at which combined solar power and storage systems become a cheaper alternative to coal-fired electricity and a more grid-compatible option," said Michael B. McElroy, the Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of …
The disclosure of environmental information requires companies to allocate resources for activities such as data collection, monitoring, reporting, and compliance, which can result in additional ...
According to forecasts by the China Energy Storage Alliance, by 2020 the Chinese energy storage market will have a capacity of 67 GW (including 35 GW from pumped hydro energy storage). For example, recently, UniEnergy Technologies and Rongke Power announced plans to deploy an 800 MWh Vanadium Flow battery in the Dalian peninsula in …
Therefore, the quality of environmental information disclosure in energy industry needs to be improved urgently. This paper selects 66 samples from 22 energy companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2018 to 2020 as the research object, establishes two potential variables and 13 observed variables of environmental awareness and ...
establishing and improving an information disclosure system. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) also set forth uniform standards for climate and environmental information disclosure by listed companies. The country''s financial authorities began working on a unified system of green finance standards
China''s priority on solar energy is also reflected in the growing investment in solar energy and the gradual increase in the share of solar energy in total energy. Table 1 shows the share of China''s use of solar power …
The China Renewable Energy Development Project (REDP) is credited by many Chinese experts as the catalyst for PV development in China. • In the 2000s, the first phase of the …
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a significant Chinese strategic measure designed to construct a platform for multinational cooperation. The study investigates whether the BRI construction influences corporate environmental information disclosure (EID) and whether the industry competition moderates their relationship. Adopting the legitimacy theory, we …
China has recently been focusing on the development of a green and sustainable economy. In the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011–2015) for Economic and Social Development, renewable energy and environmentally friendly industries such as wind power and photovoltaic energy were listed as emerging national strategic industries, and in the 13th Five …
In short: China is installing record amounts of solar and wind, while scaling back once-ambitious plans for nuclear. While Australia is falling behind its renewables installation targets, China ...
However, China''s combined wind and solar capacity is set to overtake coal this year, according to the report. It said the rapid renewables expansion raises hopes that Beijing''s carbon emissions will peak even sooner than expected.. In a separate report released on Thursday, the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) found China issued no …
2,700 companies in China (including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) participated in CDP disclosure, an increase of 43% over last year. Drawing on the TCFD framework, companies …
By virtually any metric, China is undeniably the world''s solar superpower. It deployed more solar capacity in 2023 than the United States has installed in its history; it also dominates the manufacturing supply chain, …
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solar, and energy storage. These sectors have been chosen on the basis of (a) their central role in China''s ability to meet its green growth and greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals, (b) …
3.2 Sample selection and data sources. In this paper, 95 representative listed companies in the new energy industry in different fields of China''s Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2011 to 2021 are …
This paper uses the MNDDF method to measure the energy efficiency of 238 Chinese cities. Due to space limitations, this paper cannot give the annual energy efficiency …
Government environmental information disclosure (GEID) is a key policy instrument in environmental governance. Local governments in China are improving the disclosure level of environmental information, but does the environmental information disclosed by local governments reflect the existing state of the local ecological environment? …
The emphasis on solar power is the latest installment in a two-decade program to make China less dependent on energy imports. China''s solar exports have already drawn urgent responses.
to regulations on Information Disclosure of Listed Companies of China Securities Regulatory Sustainability 2019, 11, 733 9 of 15 Commission and the Disclosure Guidelines of the Ministry of ...
The Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Beijing stock exchanges have officially released guidelines for listed companies'' sustainable development reports, marking the first …
Independent Variable—Corporate Environmental Information Disclosure Level The researchers used environmental information that corporations must disclose according to regulations on Information Disclosure of Listed Companies of China Securities Regulatory Sustainability 2019, 11, 733 9 of 15 Commission and the Disclosure Guidelines of the ...
The "Energy-Saving and Low-Carbon Action Implementation Plan for Ten Thousand Enterprises" urged Chinese energy users to establish an energy management system (EEM) that emphasizes energy ...
I am LEASING this solar energy system I have. a POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENT to purchase the power the solar energy system will generate . SECTION 1: BASIC INFORMATION . What is the solar energy system company''s contractor''s license number? (BPC section 7169 subdivision (c) subparagraph (7)). _____ (If applicable) I am PURCHASING this solar ...
Our second measure is the disclosure quality of environmental information, including the company''s environmental awareness and responsibility, compliance with government environmental protection ...
In this Q&A, the authors unpack the main findings of the report, which discusses the distinctive features of China''s climate disclosure regime, what China''s largest carbon emitters disclose, how that compares with their …
Downloadable (with restrictions)! This study examines the effect of environmental information disclosure (EID) and energy product type on Chinese energy firms'' cost of debt (COD). Using a sample of Chinese energy firms over 2008–2014, we find a significant negative association between EID and the COD. We also observe a significant negative association between …
T1 - The effect of environmental information disclosure and energy product type on the cost of debt. T2 - Evidence from energy firms in China. AU - Fonseka, Mohan. AU - Rajapakse, Theja. AU - Richardson, Grant. PY - 2019/4. Y1 - 2019/4
In recent years, scholars have found that high-quality information disclosure or supervision can have more significant policy effects than can low-quality information disclosure or supervision (Duflo et al., Reference Duflo, Greenstone, Pande and Ryan 2013; Barnwal, Reference Barnwal 2014; Muralidharan et al., Reference Muralidharan, Niehaus ...
In 2020, the Green Finance Committee of the Chinese Society for Finance and Banking and the City of London expanded their joint pilot of environmental information disclosure from 9 to 13 Chinese and British financial institutions, with support from Energy Foundation China.
et al., (2018) surveyed the energy eciency of 30 provinces in China in 2013 and 2014. The results show that the energy eciency of eastern China is the highest, while the energy eciency of western China is relatively low, and the energy eciency gap between prov-inces is still large. Du & Huang (2019) studied the regional dierences and future trends
In 2020, the national solar photovoltaic power generation will continue to maintain double-digit growth, reaching 260.5 billion kWh, a year-on-year increase of 16.1%. In 2020, the average …