Cross-sectional analysis of socioeconomic drivers of PM2.5 pollution in emerging SAARC economies.

Within the intricate interplay of socio-economic, natural and anthropogenic factors, haze pollution stands as a stark emblem of environmental degradation, particularly in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region. Despite significant efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, several SAARC nations consistently rank among the world's most polluted. Addressing this critical research gap, this study employs robust econometric methodologies to elucidate the dynamics of haze pollution across SAARC countries from 1998 to 2020.

Unlocking biogas potential: Spatial analysis, economic viability, and climate resilience in southern regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Across the world, the growing embrace of anaerobic digestion for deriving energy from biogas presents substantial economic and environmental benefits. This strategic approach carries particular significance for Pakistan, which is actively striving to meet its renewable energy objectives. The study focuses on a comprehensive examination of the spatial distribution of biogas potential originating from livestock farm manure in the southern areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Navigating China's carbon neutrality journey: insights from policy instruments and implementation strategies across provincial regions.

China's critical reliance on well-crafted public policies, coupled with the effective execution of central government directives at the local level, drives the achievement of the "dual carbon" goal including the peaking of CO emissions and attaining carbon neutrality. Therefore, examining policy records can unveil the holistic strategy for attaining carbon neutrality during the period of peak CO emissions; at the same time, it can also highlight the potential obstacles in policy implementation. In this study, we adopt a policy instruments perspective to investigate data related to policies addressing peak CO emissions across 29 provincial administrative regions in China.

Untangling the causal mechanisms and spatial dynamics of digital financial development's impact on energy intensity: insights from panel data of Chinese provinces.

The prime focus of the present investigation delves into the linkage between digital financial services and energy intensity within the geographic confines of China, utilizing provincial-level panel data spanning from 2011 to 2021. Digital finance has rapidly developed due to changes in information technology, and its role in achieving green transformation, reducing energy consumption, and lowering energy intensity in Chinese society is critical. By conducting empirical analysis utilizing diverse models, we have tested our hypotheses and found that digital finance's improvement can contribute to the reduction in energy intensity at the regional level while still considering endogeneity concerns.

Variation of digital economy's effect on carbon emissions: improving energy efficiency and structure for energy conservation and emission reduction.

The significance of accurately assessing the influence of digital economy growth upon reducing emission of carbon in the context of worldwide climate governance cannot be overstated. This is crucial in encouraging low-carbon economic advancement at national level, achieving carbon peak and neutrality as soon as possible, and creating a shared future for humanity. A mediating effect model is established using cross-country panel data from 100 countries, ranging from 1990 to 2019, to assess the influence of digital economy development upon emission of carbon and to explore its underlying mechanism.

Role of agricultural credit guarantee policies in encouraging green agricultural development: farmers' perspectives and responses, and the regulatory function of household capital.

Green agriculture is anticipated to be the leading trend for achieving sustainable and high-quality development in the agricultural sector in the future. The success of credit guarantee policies in promoting green agricultural development is closely linked to the level of participation and response from farmers in securing agricultural credit guarantee loans. We examined how farmers in Xiji, Ningxia, perceive agricultural credit guarantee policies and their involvement in such loans by analyzing 706 survey responses.

Analyzing the mediating role of industrial structure in the spatial spillover effects of financial agglomeration on carbon emission and regional heterogeneity.

In China, achieving financial agglomeration necessitates both the gathering of financial resources and the reduction of carbon emissions and the interrelation between these two goals is significant. In this research, sophisticated econometric models are applied to examine the correlation between financial agglomeration and per capita carbon emissions in China, such as spatial econometric, mixed OLS, and stationary panel models. The research sample is composed of data from 30 provinces and cities in China from 2010 to 2020 and examines both temporal and spatial distributions of these two factors and how they influence each other.

Investigating the rationale for low-carbon production techniques in agriculture for climate change mitigation and fostering sustainable development via achieving lowcarbon targets.

In China, agricultural activities are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, ranking second only to another significant source. This presents a significant obstacle to reducing emissions and jeopardizes both the availability of food and the sustainable growth of agriculture. It is primarily the farmers who utilize cultivated land and are thus accountable for the initiation of these emissions.

Analysis of financial support efficiency and influencing factors of listed seed companies from the perspective of energy consumption and carbon emissions.

The seed industry has a prominent role in strengthening ecological stability and national food security as it provides the basic ground for agriculture sector. In the current research, the effectiveness of financial support provided to listed seed enterprises and its influencing factors from the perspectives of energy consumption and carbon emissions are examined using a three-stage DEA-Tobit model. The dataset for the underlined study variables mainly comes from the financial data published by 32 listed seed enterprises and the China Energy Statistical Yearbook from 2016 to 2021.

Does green finance promote agricultural green total factor productivity? Considering green credit, green investment, green securities, and carbon finance in China.

The Chinese government has proposed a "double carbon" target as a response to climate change and has been incorporated in the vision 2035. Agriculture's green development is intrinsically related to financial support, but conventional financial mechanisms fall short in their efforts to foster economic growth and curb environmental degradation. The current research examines the theoretical effects of green finance on agricultural green total factor productivity in the context of "double carbon.

Does location of the households' matters? Identifying the households' willingness to pay and preference heterogeneity in advancement of vulnerable ecosystem services: An approach of choice experiment.

The present research underlines the need to expand far outside bundling or hierarchical providing strategy that often focuses on a specific habitat or ecosystem and creates a location-based strategy that considers how dependency in other parts of the region with ecosystem functions and processes leads to complements and resources' trade-offs. Thus, for assessment of spatial heterogeneity based on willingness to pay (WTP) for upgrading environmental attributes across Heihe River Basin (HRB), a choice experiment survey was carried out in the entire river basin. The HRB is one of the big inland river in the Northwestern region of China and is selected on basis of its geomorphological and geographical significance.

An Estimation of the Effect of Green Financial Policies and Constraints on Agriculture Investment: Evidences of Sustainable Development Achievement in Northwest China.

Farming' community actively participating as micro-actors in green finance schemes is critical for regional planning and development. On the basis of the extent to which financial progress and sustainable development are coordinated, in a difference-in-differences approach, this article employed 2350 small investigations to estimate the influence of green-finance strategies on peasants' agriculture investment and developed a mediation effect method. It investigates the role of peasant managerial variability in mediating the influence of financial constraints.

Do anthropogenic and natural factors elevate the haze pollution in the South Asian countries? Evidence from long-term cointegration and VECM causality estimation.

Anthropogenic and natural factors lead to substantial environmental degradation. This shift is aligned with the country's overall development, resulting in high demand for energy resources and a dramatic shift in human activities that contribute to haze pollution. Some of the countries in the South Asian region are ranked between one and twenty on the list of countries with the highest levels of PM2.

Quantifying the spatial preferences heterogeneity to upgrade the endemic ecological attributes for a cleaner environment: Evaluating the feasibility of benefit transfer among sub-basins of an inland river.

The role of wetlands in the conservation of global biodiversity is very significant due to the provision of various benefits to households. The assessment of these benefits and general public perception in terms of their willingness to pay for restoring the degraded ecosystem services is also heterogeneous because of their spatial preferences. This research employed a choice experiment technique to evaluate willingness to pay of the households to improve the current degraded ecosystem services and assessed benefit transfer among upper, middle and lower sub-basins of Heihe River.

Does farmers' agricultural investment is impacted by green finance policies and financial constraint? From the perspective of farmers' heterogeneity in Northwest China.

Green finance is a situation in which finance and environmental conservation are combined. Green credit management is a crucial green financial mechanism for achieving a win-win situation with economic development and environmental conservation through prudent credit resource allocation. Similarly, the continued involvement of farmers in green finance policies as micro-actors is critical to policy execution in rural regions.

Prioritizing stakeholders' preferences for policy scenarios of vulnerable ecosystems with spatial heterogeneity in choice experiment: Coupling stated preferences with elevation.

Understanding public preferences and evaluating the river basin are essential for effective river basin management, and enhancing its environmental attributes can provide considerable non-market benefits. As such, the study explores the heterogeneity in people's preferences and rankings of river ecosystem services based on their willingness to pay (WTP) to upgrade these services. A research survey was conducted throughout the river basin using a choice experiment approach.

Identifying impact of international trade and renewable energy consumption on environmental quality improvement and their role in global warming.

There is a lack of proper research that highlights the impact of institutional quality (IQ) and renewable energy consumption (REC) on the carbon emission (CE). The significance of IQ and REC in the achievement of zero CE is highlighted in this research. The current research reports the effects of these important factors on the consumption-based carbon emissions in the G-7 countries from 1995 to 2018.

Role of institutional quality and renewable energy consumption in achieving carbon neutrality: Case study of G-7 economies.

This research emphasized the significance of institutional quality and renewable energy consumption in achieving the desired objective of zero carbon emissions. Following the COP21 (Paris Conference), many countries have fixed their national level objectives for achieving the carbon neutrality and to tackle the problem of global warming. Many researchers have focused their efforts on the aspects that contribute to environmental degradation.

Evaluating the nexus between ongoing and increasing urbanization and carbon emission: a study of ARDL-bound testing approach.

The growing urbanization has created a substantial economic imbalance between the urban and rural households in the world's emerging economies and put a significant effect on carbon dioxide emissions. Simultaneously, many researchers have grown concerned by the significant consequences of urbanization on carbon emissions. In current research, we make an effort in Pakistan to investigate how urbanization affects the carbon emissions.

An impact of climate change and groundwater salinity on shadow price of water, farmers' revenue, and socioeconomic and environmental indicators in district Kohat-Pakistan.

Globally, agricultural productivity is adversely impacted due to climatic changes as the temperatures rises and precipitation decreases, and especially in Pakistan, which ultimately enhanced groundwater salinity and harmed water quality in the country. However, the impacts of groundwater salinity and climate change on farmers' revenue have not been fully understood in Pakistan. Therefore, the focus of current research is the assessment of shadow price of water, farmers' revenue, and socioeconomic and environmental indicators affected by variations in groundwater salinity, precipitation, and temperature.

Tracking sustainable development efficiency with human-environmental system relationship: An application of DPSIR and super efficiency SBM model.

Sustainable development of the Yellow River Basin, China, has gained comprehensive realistic and academic attention as a significant part of high-quality development. Current study used the 30 years (1997-2017) panel data of 9 provinces and constructed Drivers, Pressure, State, Impact and Response analysis framework and super efficiency Slack-Based Measure (DPSIR-SBM) model to evaluate rural sustainable development efficiency (RSDE). For the reason, the convergence, divergence and their influencing factors are discussed from three aspects, which are σ convergence, absolute β convergence and conditional β convergence.

An evaluation of influencing factors and public attitudes for the adoption of biogas system in rural communities to overcome energy crisis: A case study of Pakistan.

Energy is the backbone of a country's economy and development. The potential contribution of renewable energy technology to energy stability, climate change mitigation and economic growth is immense. Biogas, is a renewable energy resource and enriched with methane, produced through the breakdown of organic matters (anaerobically).

Ranking of ecosystem services on the basis of willingness to pay: Monetary assessment of a subset of ecosystem services in the Heihe River basin.

The identification of public preferences and the welfares of river system evaluation are consequential for effective renovation of river system as well as viable river management. For this reason, the focus of current study was emphasized on respondent's willingness to pay through implementation of Random Parameter Logit model using data collected through choice experiment technique, in which the preferences of sampled respondent's in urban, rural and pooled data was evaluated for different abiotic and biotic ecosystem services across the entire Heihe River Basin. The estimated results revealed that average urban households are willing to pay more for the restoration of ecosystem services compared to rural residents.

Spatial prioritization of willingness to pay for ecosystem services. A novel notion of distance from origin's impression.

Valuation of environmental goods and services are frequently spatially heterogeneous, the significance of this heterogeneity for policy analysis is gradually recognized. For the valuation of environmental goods and services in the context of attaining a better environmental status across Heihe River basin (HRB), Northwest of China by 2020, a survey was conducted employing choice experiment approach across the entire river basin. In this research we estimate the impact of distance from inland rivers' origin (spatial attribute) on the inhabitants' willingness to pay for restoration of ecological attributes.