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标题：Impacts of Low-Carbon Innovation and Its Heterogeneous Components on CO 2 Emissions
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作者：Yan, Zheming ; Yi, Lan ; Du, Kerui 等
期刊名称：Sustainability
印刷版ISSN：2071-1050
出版年度：2017
卷号：9
期号：4
页码：1-14
出版社：MDPI, Open Access Journal
摘要：This paper aims to investigate the impact of low-carbon innovation on CO 2 emissions. Using patent statistics, we measured low-carbon innovations for 15 major economies during the period of 1992–2012. Then, we classified low-carbon technology into clean and gray technology according to the patent classification system. Following the empirical Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) framework, we explored the effects of low-carbon innovation and its components on CO 2 emissions. We did not find any evidence of significant influence of low-carbon innovation. Through further estimations, a significantly negative effect of clean innovation was found while the effect of gray innovation is not clear. Heterogeneous impacts within low-carbon technology provide an explanation for the insignificant impact of low-carbon innovation.
关键词：low carbon technologies; clean innovation; gray innovation; patent statistics; CO 2 emissions