Owing to recent developments and implications inspired by fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies in the global manufacturing sector through the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) concept, this study was conducted to discover the impacts of I4.0 and environmental quality on the South African manufacturing sec...
Urban-rural income disparity Rural energy poverty Two-way fixed-effects model Financial development Energy poverty reduction strategies China 1. Introduction China's rapid urbanization and economic development have left rural areas lagging in both income and access to essential services, creating a widenin...
We followed the prior literature and categorised firms as environmentally sensitive (take the value of ‘1’) if they operate in any of the following industries: oil and gas; forestry, pulp and paper; energy; chemicals and drugs; mining and resources and utilities, otherwise environmentally ...
(2020) for the oil and gas industry as borrowers pull forward investment to increase collateral value. Shive and Forster (2020) find that, consistent with capital market pressure, publicly listed firms pollute more than private firms. We use asset redeployability data from 1985 to 2015 from ...
Growing evidence suggests that most particles formed during natural gas combustion are in the nanoscale. There exists the potential for adverse effects due to exposure to these unintentionally produced particles. This exposure may be occupational, in the home, or in ambient air. Currently, measurement...
ASHTON DALLSINGH FCCA Vice president and CFO, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia, Cisco Ashton has over 20 years' leadership experience in diverse industries including public accounting, oil and gas, telecoms and IT with companies such as Ernst and Young, Conoco DuPont, Rogers Inc and Dell...
Agriculture is becoming a substantial contributor to carbon emissions in China, and the efficient reduction of agricultural carbon emissions (ACEs) has become a universal concern. Currently, the digital transformation of agriculture (DTA) provides a new
s agro-ecological zones remapped into Brazilian biomes. The GTAP-AEZ modeling framework has been used to analyze deforestation leakage associated with biofuel mandates27,28, policies to reduce deforestation in the oil palm sector15, and the tariffs levied by China on US imports, including soybeans...
Emissions are caused by all sorts of human activities, such as burning fossil fuels(coal, oil and gas)to make energy, cutting down forests and some types of farming. Becoming carbon neutral includes cutting the amount of carbon emissio...
The positive effect of energy consumption on ecological footprints in oil-producing countries is quite natural, as expected considering that these countries are still shifting strategic imperatives of the oil and gas industry since these industries generate a significant amount of revenue. In addition,...