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The need to secure sustainable resources and instill environmental economics is becoming increasingly important as part of efforts to achieve peak carbon. In this context, this Special Issue directs its focus at these two concepts, sustainable resources and environmental economics, seeking to bolster commitments to the dual conditions of environmental and resource development and carbon emission constraints. Consequently, th overarching aim of the Special Issue is to gather together a series of manuscripts covering to leading methods designed to ensure the resource and environmental sustainability associated with constraints on carbon emissions.

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Comparative Assessment of the Economic Efficiency of the Afforestation Project in the North-West of Russia

by Natalia Nesterenko, Maria Vetrova and Evgeny Abakumov

Sustainability 2025, 17(9), 4007; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17094007 - 29 Apr 2025

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The study of carbon stocks in organic compounds within terrestrial ecosystems allows us to create a pool of potential carbon farming projects. At present, it is essential to assess the economic viability of natural-based solutions in order to develop strategies to encourage small and medium enterprises (SME) and governments to address climate change through specific measures. This article is devoted to the study of the economic efficiency of afforestation projects. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the economic efficiency of the project and, based on NPV sensitivity analysis, to identify the factors affecting economic efficiency. This will make it possible to formulate directions for stimulating the development of afforestation projects using tools to improve their economic efficiency. Based on data on the number of carbon credits issued, their price, and the costs and other revenue associated with the implementation of the afforestation project, a sensitivity analysis of economic efficiency was conducted, highlighting the most significant factors. Given that different tree species are characterized by variable seedling values, planting costs, and sequestration potentials, an afforestation project with the most carbon efficient tree species was selected as a pilot project. Black alder exhibits the most optimal proportion between the volume of carbon units released and the cost of planting trees. A sensitivity analysis of the project’s net present value was conducted in order to ascertain the factors that have the most significant impact on the project’s economic efficiency. These include the discount rate based on the cost of capital and the cost of tree planting. As a result, this article makes recommendations for improving the economic efficiency of afforestation projects for SME. The government’s role in enhancing the economic efficiency of such initiatives entails reducing the cost of capital through a reduction in the key rate or the provision of subsidies for the interest rate on bank credits. An alternative approach involves the granting of subsidies for the cost of tree planting, since the effects can be seen as a series of public goods, such as the creation of recreational areas and increased biodiversity of the ecosystem. Full article

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Does Corporate Behavior Related to the Overseas Market Promote Enterprises’ Green Transformation?—Evidence from China

by Zezhong Li and Qian Zhou

Sustainability 2024, 16(11), 4362; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16114362 - 22 May 2024

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Behavior related to the overseas market has become an essential method for enterprises to acquire international resources. We aimed to do so using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach with the collected data of companies from China’s high-polluting industries in the A-share market between 2011 and 2019. The present papers aims to find the influence of the behavior towards the enterprises’ green transformation. The research results showed the following: (1) The behavior related to the overseas market not only increased enterprises’ environmental protection investment but also promoted enterprises’ green technology innovation, which promoted enterprises’ green transformation. (2) The mechanism analysis shows that corporate investment in protection of the environment increased mainly through the improved consciousness for the responsibility of environment, while corporates’ green technology innovation not only requires the increased awareness for environmental responsibility but also requires enterprises to learn advanced environmental protection methods and knowledge. (3) The role of the behavior related to the overseas market in promoting the green transformation of enterprises was more obvious in state-owned enterprises, and the enterprises with relatively better business performance were more enthusiastic about green technology innovation because of the motivation of advantage creation; thus, the promoting effect of the behavior related to the overseas market on the enterprises’ green transformation was more obvious. This paper provides empirical evidence and policy implications to help promote the green transformation of enterprises. Full article

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